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Query: EC:3.1.4.3 (phospholipase C)
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A phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) has been isolated from bovine brain (purification factor of 5.6 x 10(4)). By sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, it had a Mr of 57,000. Neither amino nor neutral sugars were detected in the purified enzyme. The pH optimum was 7.0-7.5, and the activity decreased only slightly at pH 8.0. When phosphatidylinositol was used as a substrate, the optimum Ca2+ requirement was 4 mM, and Km was 260 microM. When phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate was used, the optimum Ca2+ requirement was 10(-7) M, and the Km was reduced to 90 microM. Lipid specificity studies showed that equal amounts of inositol phosphate and diacylglycerol were released from phosphatidylinositol but 4 times as much inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate was released from phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate. Other lipids, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, and sphingomyelin, were not substrates. Failure to detect phosphatidic acid confirmed the absence of a phospholipase D activity in the purified enzyme. Myelin basic protein (MBP) stimulated the PI-PLC activity between 2- and 3-fold. Histone had a small effect only, whereas bovine serum albumin and cytochrome C had no effect. Phosphorylation of MBP reduced the stimulatory effect. Protein-protein interactions between MBP and PI-PLC have been demonstrated both immunologically and by sucrose density gradients. A stoichiometry of 1:1 has been suggested by the latter method. A number of peptides have been prepared by chemical, enzymatic, and synthetic methods. Peptides containing the MBP sequences consisting of residues 24-33 and 114-122 stimulated the PI-PLC but were less effective than the intact protein.
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PMID:A 57-kDa phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C from bovine brain. 170 49

Evidence presented demonstrates a covalent attachment of a phospholipid to bovine myelin basic protein. Partial characterization of the phospholipid moiety was performed on myelin basic protein obtained from 32P-phosphorylated whole myelin that was first delipidated by two ether/ethanol (3:2 v/v) extractions, ether extraction, and acetone extraction and then purified by preparative sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The myelin basic protein was precipitated with aqueous acetone and treated with proteases. Treatment with carboxypeptidase Y or trypsin for several hours released a lipophilic fragment, which was purified by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography to yield two "lipopeptides". Such lipopeptides were obtained from both the major and minor myelin basic proteins of rat and bovine brain. Treatment with either mild base or phospholipase C removes the lipophilic character of the peptide fragment. The lipophilic fragment is a substrate for phospholipase D, but it does not comigrate on thin-layer chromatography with any 32P-labeled lipid obtained from myelin incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP. Polyphosphoinositides were shown to be released by mild acid treatment of myelin basic protein that had been extracted with organic solvent and then purified by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Along with the fact that inositol monophosphate was identified in the partial acid hydrolysate of the lipopeptide, we have concluded that polyphosphoinositide (phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate and/or phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate) was the original phospholipid portion of the lipopeptide.
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PMID:Colvalent linkage of phospholipid to myelin basic protein: identification of phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate as the attached phospholipid. 242 99

It has previously been demonstrated that staphylococcal alpha-toxin can selectively induce disruption of myelin sheaths in the central nervous system, albeit the exact mechanism is not known. In this report we show for the first time that the staphylococcal alpha-toxin could stimulate the endogenous phosphorylation of several proteins, including myelin basic protein (Mr = 18,500) in purified guinea pig brain myelin. This stimulatory effect does not require the presence of calcium and is distinct from those modulated by calcium and phospholipids. In vitro phosphorylation of isolated myelin basic protein by the purified catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase was enhanced in the presence of alpha-toxin, whereas the reaction catalyzed by protein kinase C, a Ca2+-activated and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase, was not affected. These results suggest that some of the toxic effects of staphylococcal alpha-toxin on myelin may be mediated through post-translation covalent modification, such as phosphorylation of specific proteins.
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PMID:Staphylococcus aureus alpha-toxin. 1. Effect on protein phosphorylation in myelin. 244 54

Incubation of bovine CNS myelin with phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus under conditions that lead to extensive phospholipid degradation caused 10% of the myelin protein to be released from the membrane. The myelin basic protein (MBP) was a major component of the dissolved protein. Comparable incubations with phospholipase C from Clostridium perfringens, phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C from Staphylococcus aureus, or cabbage phospholipase D removed little MBP. However, concentrations of sodium chloride near 1 M and concentrations of divalent metal ions between 50 and 600 mM released typically 9-12% of the total myelin protein, with MBP again as the predominant component. Repetitive washing with calcium chloride solutions resulted in dissolution of over 90% of the MBP. When myelin was incubated in 1.0 M sodium chloride or 25 mM calcium chloride, the MBP was cleaved largely into two major peptides with apparent molecular weights near 14,000 and 12,000, but with 200 mM or higher concentrations of calcium chloride most of this protein remained intact. With appropriate manipulation of the ionic milieu, it is thus possible to remove most of this extrinsic protein from the myelin surface under relatively mild conditions. The conditions that release the protein suggest that it is held at the membrane surface by ionic interactions.
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PMID:Release of proteins from the surface of bovine central nervous system myelin by salts and phospholipases. 244 23

Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate (PtdIns-P) kinase was purified approximately 30-fold from rat brain cytosol. No contaminating activity of PtdIns kinase or of phosphomonoesterase and phospholipase C using PtdIns-P or PtdIns-P2 as substrate could be detected in the enzyme preparation. The PtdIns-P kinase activity was severalfold higher when PtdIns-P/PtdEtn vesicles rather than PtdIns-P alone were used as substrate. This might be due to increased accessibility of the enzyme for the vesicular substrate, further indicated by the lower activity obtained when PtdCho or PtdIns, phospholipids with bulky head groups, was also present in the vesicles. The product PtdIns-P2 was a competitive inhibitor with respect to PtdIns-P and 50% inhibition of enzyme activity was observed at the same product concentration regardless of whether the substrate-product mixture was presented in vesicular or micellar form, or the substrate and product were added in separate vesicles. The polyamines spermine and spermidine enhanced PtdIns-P kinase activity severalfold. Spermine also caused a shift in the MgCl2 saturation curve from sigmoidal to hyperbolic, lowering the Mg2+ concentration required for optimum kinase activity to the physiological range. Myelin basic protein enhanced the enzyme activity when PtdIns-P/PtdEtn vesicles were used as substrate, whereas it was inhibitory when PtdIns-P was added alone. The possible role of polyamines and the product PtdIns-P2 in the regulation of PtdIns-P kinase activity is discussed.
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PMID:Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate kinase from rat brain. Activation by polyamines and inhibition by phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate. 302 90

The modulation of a brain phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C-alpha activity was studied using a variety of compounds of different charge. Detergents such as sodium deoxycholate and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide stimulated the phospholipase C activity when used alone but when used together the effects were not additive. Spermine was an effective inhibitor of the enzyme activity while the cationic peptide, Melittin, had no effect. The inositol phosphates produced by hydrolysis with phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C were inhibitory while diacylglycerol and inositol did not affect the phospholipase activity. Myelin basic protein, which was previously shown to stimulate phospholipase C activity by 2.5-fold, did not interact with the anionic inositol phosphatases to any significant extent. Thus we concluded that the mechanism of stimulation was not due to relief of product inhibition. Crosslinking studies with the photoactivatable reagent, N-hydroxysuccinimidyl-4-azidosalicylic acid, showed that peptide 24-33 of myelin basic protein, which stimulated the activity almost as much as the native protein, interacted specifically with the phospholipase C. Thus the mechanism by which myelin basic protein stimulated the enzyme appeared to be through specific protein-protein interaction.
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PMID:The mechanism of stimulation of brain phospholipase C-alpha by myelin basic protein involves specific interactions. 751 86

We have isolated a novel member of the mammalian PAK (p21 activated kinase) and yeast Ste20 serine/threonine kinase family from a mouse fibroblast cDNA library, designated mPAK-3. Expression of mPAK-3 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae partially restores mating function in ste20 null cells. Like other PAKs, mPAK-3 contains a putative Cdc42Hs/Rac binding sequence and when transiently expressed in COS cells, full-length mPAK-3 binds activated (GTP gamma S (guanosine 5'-3-O-(thio-triphosphate)-bound) glutathione S-transferase (GST)-Cdc42Hs and GST-Rac1 but not GST-RhoA. As expected for a putative target molecule, mPAK-3 does not bind to an effector domain mutant of Cdc42Hs. Furthermore, activated His-tagged Cdc42Hs and His-tagged Rac stimulate mPAK-3 autophosphorylation and phosphorylation of myelin basic protein by mPAK-3 in vitro. Interestingly, the amino-terminal region of mPAK-3 contains potential SH3-binding sites and we find that mPAK-3, expressed in vitro and in vivo, shows highly specific binding to the SH3 domain of phospholipase C-gamma and at least one SH3 domain in the adapter protein Nck. These results raise the possibility of an additional level of regulation of the PAK family in vivo.
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PMID:Identification of a mouse p21Cdc42/Rac activated kinase. 755 98

The kinetics of formation and dissociation of IAu-peptide complexes have been examined in the absence of detergent, using a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-linked form of IAu. The GPI-linked form contains a lipid membrane anchor which can be specifically cleaved by phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C to yield a water-soluble form of IAu. We find rapid binding of the myelin basic protein (MBP) peptide analogue Ac(1-14)A4C15 to IAu, as well as rapid dissociation of IAu-MBP peptide complexes at neutral pH in the absence of detergent. The reaction kinetics of the water-soluble and detergent-solubilized complexes are the same to within experiment error. In the presence of this MBP peptide, Ac(1-14)A4C15, cells transfected with native IAu as well as cells transfected with a GPI-linked form of IAu are functional in stimulating T-helper hybridoma cells.
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PMID:Kinetics of the reaction of a myelin basic protein peptide with soluble IAu. 757 98

We reported previously a highly purified phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) from bovine brain and from human myelin which was stimulated by myelin basic protein. In this paper we report that the stimulation of the PI-PLC activity by myelin basic protein (MBP) requires arginine residues in peptide linkage. MBP and poly-L-arginine were able to stimulate the PI-PLC activity by 250% while other basic poly amino acids were unable to stimulate the PI-PLC activity. Neither free arginine nor benzoyl-arginine ethylester was able to stimulate the activity of the enzyme. These results suggested a requirement for the guanidino group of arginine and arginine in peptidyl linkage. The arginyl residues of MBP were modified chemically with 1,2-cyclohexanedione, or enzymatically by cholera toxin which ADP-ribosylated arginyl groups, or by peptidylarginine deiminase which converted the guanidino group of arginine to the ureido group of citrulline. ADP-ribosylation did not affect the stimulation while the 1,2-cyclohexanedione modified MBP and the peptidylarginine deiminase-treated MBP showed a reduced ability to stimulate the PI-PLC activity which correlated with the number of arginyl residues modified. Sequence analysis of the peptidylarginine deiminase-treated MBP established that specific arginyl residues had been converted to citrulline to a greater extent than others. When 70% of Arg 25 and Arg31 were converted to citrulline little stimulatory activity remained, whereas the conversion of 100% of Arg 170 did not affect the ability of C1 to stimulate the enzyme. A role for "active" arginine in this MBP peptide is suggested by our data.
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PMID:Stimulation of bovine brain phospholipase C activity by myelin basic protein requires arginyl residues in peptide linkage. 768 60

We have previously established that 21-day-old postnatal rat oligodendrocytes, maintained in monolayer culture and subjected to 6 h of hypoxia, show reversible inhibition of synthesis of alpha-hydroxy fatty acid and myelin basic protein but a dramatic induction of a 22-kDa protein, suggesting that this is a good model to study the mechanism of CNS demyelination caused by hypoxic injury. We now report that hypoxia also dramatically inhibits the basal protein kinase C-mediated phosphorylation of myelin basic protein and myelin 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide phosphohydrolase by 80%, but that the inhibition of phosphorylation can be reversed by addition of a protein kinase C activator, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate. The mechanism of action appears to involve the uncoupling of signal transduction at a site before phospholipase C, because hypoxia did not affect protein kinase C activity or its translocation to the membrane fraction. The most potent activator of phospholipase C (as measured by inositol phosphate release) was carbachol (muscarinic M1 receptor agonist), followed by L-phenylephrine (alpha 1-adrenergic receptor agonist) in normal oligodendrocytes. Excitatory amino acids and histamine were ineffective. Hypoxia for 6 h completely inhibited both muscarinic and alpha 1-adrenergic receptor-mediated inositol monophosphate release but did not affect phospholipase D-coupled phosphatidylethanol production in response to carbachol. We therefore conclude from this and earlier work that early, reversible changes in oligodendrocyte metabolism result not simply from ATP depletion, but may specifically target GTP binding protein-mediated processes.
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PMID:Effects of hypoxia on oligodendrocyte signal transduction. 768 39


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