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Query: EC:3.1.4.3 (phospholipase C)
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This study was undertaken in order to investigate the newly discovered spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR)-specific restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) at the genomic locus of (poly)phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PLC)-delta at a DNA sequence level. Our aim was to clone the PLC-delta complimentary DNA (cDNA) from SHR and analyse the genomic DNA obtained from two hypertensive rat strains such as SHR and its stroke-prone substrain (SHR-SP) and three normotensive rat strains such as Sprague-Dawley, Donryu and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) by preparing an aortic cDNA library of SHR, hybridization cloning of PLC-delta cDNA and an analysis of the genomic DNA by polymerase chain reaction. By digesting with restriction enzyme XhoI, we discovered an RFLP band displaying only in SHR and SHR-SP, not in Sprague-Dawley, Donryu and WKY rats. DNA sequencing of PLC-delta cDNA cloned from an aortic cDNA library of SHR revealed a total of three SHR-specific point mutations, two of which resulted in amino acid substitutions. The first point mutation (A to T) was detected at the XhoI site, changing a threonine(ACG) to a serine(TCG), and the second point mutation (A to G) was discovered in the vicinity of the first one, changing an isoleucine(ATA) to a methionine(ATG). This is the first demonstration of the mutations in the SHR genome changing amino acid sequences. These amino acid substitutions, situated in the putative catalytic X domain of PLC-delta, may be the major cause of the augmented PLC activity observed in the SHR, possibly leading to hypertension-related phenonemoma such as abnormal calcium homeostasis and increased intracellular calcium ion concentrations.
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PMID:Phospholipase C-delta gene of the spontaneously hypertensive rat harbors point mutations causing amino acid substitutions in a catalytic domain. 168 14

Activation of T lymphocytes leads to the production of the T cell growth factor IL-2 that regulates T cell proliferation. This activation is associated with several potential intracellular signalling events including increased activity of phospholipase C (PLC) and resultant increases in production of inositol phosphates and diacylglycerols. In addition, phosphorylation of specific intracellular proteins on serine, threonine, and tyrosine residues increases. The role of each of these events in IL-2 production is unclear. Using Western blotting with antiphosphotyrosine antibodies, we demonstrate that activation of murine T cells with mitogenic lectins or anti-CD3 antibodies leads to a rapid increase in tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins of 120, 72, 62, 55, and 40 kDa. Similar patterns of antiphosphotyrosine antibodies reactivity were observed in splenocytes, a T cell hybridoma, and a T lymphoma. Tyrosine phosphorylation was detectable within minutes of addition of mitogenic lectins and persisted for at least 6 h. Pretreatment of the cells with pertussis toxin did not inhibit tyrosine phosphorylation indicating that a pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein is not involved in signal transduction. Neither increasing cytosolic-free calcium nor activating protein kinase C mimicked the effects of mitogenic lectins suggesting that tyrosine phosphorylation was not a consequence of activation of PLC. This was confirmed by demonstrating that mitogenic lectins induced similar patterns of tyrosine phosphorylation in cells in which activation of the TCR leads to increased PLC activity and in cells in which PLC is not stimulated. To test whether tyrosine phosphorylation is linked to IL-2 secretion, we determined the effect of three specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors (tyrphostins) on tyrosine phosphorylation, IL-2 secretion, and cellular proliferation. The concentration dependence of inhibition of tyrosine phosphorylation and IL-2 production were similar. However, higher concentrations of the tyrphostins were required to inhibit constitutive proliferation of the T cell line indicating that inhibition of IL-2 secretion was not secondary to nonspecific toxic effects of the tyrphostins. Addition of the tyrphostins after mitogenic lectin decreased the amount of tyrosine phosphorylation and IL-2 secretion in parallel. This indicates that both tyrosine kinases and phosphatases are activated and that continuous tyrosine phosphorylation is likely required for IL-2 secretion. Therefore, tyrosine phosphorylation appears to represent an obligatory event in the transmembrane signaling processes that lead to IL-2 secretion.
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PMID:Tyrosine phosphorylation is an obligatory event in IL-2 secretion. 169 78

Cross-linking of the surface antigen receptor on B lymphocytes has been demonstrated to lead to activation of phospholipase C (PLC) with subsequent increases in production of inositol phosphates and diacylglycerol. In turn, these second messengers increase cytosolic free calcium [( Ca2+]i) and activate the serine threonine phosphotransferase protein kinase C (PKC). These processes are thought to play a major role in B cell activation and proliferation. However, the mechanism linking the B lymphocyte antigen receptor to phospholipase C remains to be identified. We demonstrate herein that activation of the antigen receptor on human lymphocytes, in addition to activation of PLC, increases tyrosine phosphorylation of specific substrates. Tyrphostins, a new class of tyrosine kinase inhibitors which compete for substrate binding site of specific tyrosine kinases have recently been synthesized. Preincubation of B lymphocytes with two different tyrphostins blocked anti-IgM-induced proliferation, oncogene expression, tyrosine phosphorylation, increases in [Ca2+]i, and production of inositol phosphates. The same inhibitors were without effect on B cell proliferation induced by phorbol esters and cation ionophores which directly activate PKC and increase [Ca2+]i thus bypassing PLC. These findings strongly indicate that tyrphostins do not exhibit significant nonspecific toxicity and suggest that they act proximal to PLC. The ability of the tyrphostins to block increases in [Ca2+]i and inositol phosphate production, after activation of the B cell antigen receptor, indicates that a tyrosine kinase acts as an essential link between the B cell antigen receptor and PLC.
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PMID:Activation of phospholipase C in human B cells is dependent on tyrosine phosphorylation. 170 65

We have shown that platelets stimulated with thrombin or guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[S]), both of which activate phospholipase C and protein kinase C (PKC), show enhancement of 3-phosphorylated phosphoinositide accumulation (3-PPI). We now report the following. (1) Inhibition of thrombin- or GTP[S]-stimulated PKC by pseudo-substrate peptide (RFARK) added to permeabilized platelets markedly inhibits 3-PPI, whereas the serine/threonine phosphatase inhibitor, okadaic acid, promotes 3-PPI. PKC activity, insufficient in itself for fully activating 3-PPI, appears crucial to receptor and post-receptor stimulation of 3-PPI, even when tyrosine phosphorylation is unimpaired. (2) Alteration of Gi by ADP-ribosylation only slightly affects the stimulation of 3-PPI by thrombin, and activation of the G-protein Gi by adrenaline has no effect on 3-PPI. (3) Inhibition of PKC blocks activated secretion of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF). However, PDGF cannot promote platelet 3-PPI, and thus cannot account for the inhibitory effects of RFARK on 3-PPI.
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PMID:Protein kinase C regulates the stimulated accumulation of 3-phosphorylated phosphoinositides in platelets. 171 81

Intracellular signalling pathways mediating the effects of growth factors and oncogenes on cell growth and transformation present a challenging new class of target sites for anticancer drug development. Several drugs are already available that may act in this way, including drugs that act on protein serine/threonine kinases, protein tyrosine kinases and phospholipase C, as well as inhibitors of myo-inositol signalling. As our understanding of the signalling pathways involved in growth control increases, new sites for pharmacological intervention will become apparent. Garth Powis reviews the evidence that this approach may eventually lead to new, more selective drugs for treating cancer.
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PMID:Signalling targets for anticancer drug development. 186 34

The phenolic antioxidant 2,6-bis(1,1-dimethyl ethyl)-4-methylphenol (BHT) evokes a transient phosphorylation of two platelet proteins of Mr 20,000 and 47,000 that are well-known substrates of protein kinase C (PKC) and, similarly to phorbol esters, a slight but persistent phosphorylation of a protein of Mr 26,000. These effects are observed both in the presence and in the absence of extracellular calcium, but are abolished in the presence of the protein kinase C inhibitor staurosporine. The phosphorylation of the 47 kDa protein takes place mostly at the serine and, to a lesser extent, at threonine residues. BHT induces an increased binding of tritiated phorbol dibutyrate to platelets indicating a PKC translocation from cytosol to plasma membrane. Addition of BHT (20 microM) a few min prior to thrombin causes inhibition of both agonist-evoked protein phosphorylation and increase in the Ca2+ concentration, the latter inhibition being counteracted by staurosporine. The inhibitory effect lasts for several minutes even after removal of BHT from the cellular suspending medium. Similar results are obtained with nordihydroguaiaretic acid, whereas 2- and 3-tert-butyl-4-methoxyphenol (BHA) produce only slight effects. BHT activates the protein kinase C purified from pig brain in a concentration-dependent manner (up to 200 microM), whereas it does not affect the activity of other purified protein kinases such as type 1 and 2 casein kinases, type II A, II B and III tyrosine protein kinases from rat spleen and the catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. It is concluded that, similarly to diacylglycerols and phorbol esters, these phenolic antioxidants activate the protein kinase C, which in turn desensitizes platelets towards subsequent phospholipase C activation.
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PMID:The antioxidant butylated hydroxytoluene stimulates platelet protein kinase C and inhibits subsequent protein phosphorylation induced by thrombin. 188 50

MCH (melanin concentrating hormone) is a heptadecapeptide, Asp-Thr-Met-Arg-Cys-Met-Val-Gly-Arg-Val-Tyr-Arg-Pro-Cys-Trp-Glu-Val, which stimulates melanosome (melanin granule) aggregation to a perinuclear position within teleost fish integumental melanocytes, resulting in lightening of the skin. The mechanisms of action of MCH are unknown. Drugs that affect the diacylglycerol/inositol triphosphate pathway were used to investigate the possible roles of this pathway in the mechanisms of action of MCH on Synbranchus marmoratus (teleost) melanocytes. The shift of the dose-response curve to MCH in the presence of various concentrations of 4-bromophenacyl bromide and neomycin sulphate, phospholipase C inhibitors, suggests that phospholipase C is stimulated after MCH receptor activation. Low concentrations (10(-9) to 10(-8) M) of the phorbol ester TPA exhibited MCH-like activity, eliciting a dose-dependent melanosome aggregation. Higher doses, however, displaced to the right the dose-response curve to MCH, as did the protein kinase C inhibitors, dibucaine and 1-(5-isoquinolinylsulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine (H-7). These results support the assumption that protein kinase C mediates the pigment aggregating activity of MCH. Both MCH and norepinephrine lightening actions were abolished by beta-glycerophosphate, a phosphatase inhibitor, suggesting that a protein dephosphorylation occurs during melanosome aggregation, and is, therefore, a common event triggered by MCH and norepinephrine, although both agonists act through separate receptors and exhibit different transduction mechanisms.
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PMID:Protein-kinase C mediates MCH signal transduction in teleost, synbranchus marmoratus, melanocytes. 194 11

Killer toxin K28, a 16 kd protein secreted by the wine yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain 28, was reversibly bound by a column of Concanavalin A-Sepharose, confirming its glycoprotein nature. HPLC analysis of acid hydrolyzates of K28 toxin as well as Western-blots of beta-eliminated and/or endo H-treated killer toxin preparations probed with polyclonal alpha-toxin antibodies revealed that the carbohydrate moiety of K28 consists of D-mannose only, which is O-glycosidically linked via Ser/Thr residues to the protein part. The change in gel mobility of K28 after beta-elimination was caused by a decrease in molecular mass of about 1,800, corresponding to a carbohydrate moiety of 10 mannose residues per killer toxin molecule.
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PMID:Immunochemical analysis of the carbohydrate moiety of yeast killer toxin K28. 208 15

Hemopoietic cells have an absolute requirement for survival and proliferation for specific growth factors. The growth factors maintain the critical vitality of the cells by stimulating adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis and hexose transport. Intracellular alkalinization also occurs rapidly through the stimulation of the Na+/H+ antiporter. These immediate metabolic events, not initiated by serum components, appear to be necessary for the integrity of cellular viability (Fig. 6). Interleukin-3 has been shown to induce the activation of PK-C through a mechanism(s) not requiring the hydrolysis of phosphoinositol 4,5 bisphosphate. A role for Ca2+ influx or intracellular release in the action of CSFs or interleukins has not been shown. Although downregulation of cAMP has been reported in response to IL-2, the signal transduction process of CSFs and IL-2 appears not to be mediated by upregulation of cyclic nucleotide metabolism or "classical" phospholipid degradative pathways. Protein phosphorylation is clearly modulated by the hemopoietic cytokines, yet only the CSF-1 receptor has any known intrinsic kinase activity. Instead, the IL-3, GM-CSF receptors, and perhaps G-CSF appear to be coupling to kinases of both tyrosine and serine specificities. This may be a direct allosteric interaction with membrane-associated kinases or transduced through an intermediate protein such as those using GTP. Such is the case for many hormone receptors that couple to amplifying "second messenger" enzyme systems (i.e., adenylate cyclase, phospholipase C) or members of the insulin growth factor family that couple to tyrosine kinases in proximity to the receptors (IGF-II). One of the kinase systems that IL-2, IL-3, and other CSFs stimulate appears to have some characteristics similar to PK-C. Direct activators of PK-C stimulate some similar serine-threonine phosphorylation and perhaps even tyrosine phosphorylation. The hemopoietic growth factors, however, stimulate tyrosine phosphorylation of some proteins that are not phosphorylated in response to PK-C activators, suggesting that these kinase systems are independently regulated. Although phorbol esters stimulate many of the same metabolic activities (ATP synthesis in myeloid and lymphoid cell lines), growth-factor abrogation is clearly associated with the action of tyrosine kinase oncogenes or the nuclear oncogene effectors such as v-myc. It is likely, therefore, that tyrosine kinases are playing a critical role in the control of proliferation although the dominant amount of cellular protein phosphorylations are on serine. Both classes of kinases are apparently required for growth-factor action. All the hemopoietic growth factors examined thus far stimulate the steady-state accumulation of the nuclear protooncogenes.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Hematopoietic growth-factor signal transduction and regulation of gene expression. 209 Feb 58

Addition of epidermal growth factor (EGF) to many cell types activates phospholipase C resulting in increased levels of diacylglycerol and intracellular Ca2+ which may lead to activation of protein kinase C. EGF treatment of cells can also lead to phosphorylation of the EGF receptor at threonine 654 (a protein kinase C phosphorylation site) which appears to attenuate some aspects of receptor signaling. Thus, a feedback loop involving the EGF receptor, phospholipase C, and protein kinase C may regulate EGF receptor function. In this report, the role of phosphorylation of threonine 654 of the EGF receptor in regulation of EGF-stimulated activation of phospholipase C was investigated. NIH-3T3 cells expressing the normal human EGF receptor or expressing EGF receptor in which an alanine residue had been substituted at residue 654 of the receptor were used. Addition of EGF to cells expressing wild-type receptor induced a rapid, but transient, increase in phosphorylation of threonine 654. EGF addition also caused the rapid accumulation of inositol phosphates in these cells. EGF-stimulated accumulation of inositol phosphates was significantly higher in cells expressing Ala-654 receptors compared to control cells. Treatment of cells with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA), which stimulated phosphorylation of threonine 654 to a greater degree than EGF, completely inhibited EGF-dependent inositol phosphate accumulation in cells expressing wild-type receptor, but caused only a 20-30% inhibition in Ala-654 expressing cells. EGF stimulated phosphorylation of phospholipase C-gamma on serine and tyrosine residues in cells expressing wild-type of Ala-654 receptors. However, TPA treatment of cells inhibited EGF-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of phospholipase C-gamma only in cells expressing wild-type receptors. Similarly, TPA inhibited tyrosine-specific autophosphorylation of the EGF receptor and tyrosine phosphorylation of several other proteins in wild-type receptor cells, but not in Ala-654 cells. TPA treatment abolished high affinity binding of EGF to cells expressing wild-type receptors, while decreasing the number of high affinity binding sites 20-30% in Ala-654 cells. These data suggest that phosphorylation of threonine 654 can regulate early events in EGF receptor signal transduction such as phosphoinositide turnover, probably through a feedback mechanism involving protein kinase C. Subsequent dephosphorylation of threonine 654 could reactivate the EGF receptor for participation in later signaling events.
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PMID:Effects of substitution of threonine 654 of the epidermal growth factor receptor on epidermal growth factor-mediated activation of phospholipase C. 210 64


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