Diminished tyrosine protein kinase activity in T cells unresponsive to TCR stimulation

1994 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Y. Tsygankov ◽  
Ha W. Kim ◽  
Joanne C. Pratt ◽  
Carl Spana ◽  
Kenneth Class ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
T Cells ◽  
Protein Kinase ◽  
Kinase Activity ◽  
Protein Kinase Activity ◽  
Tyrosine Protein Kinase

Characterization of the protein apparently responsible for the elevated tyrosine protein kinase activity in LSTRA cells

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 2705-2713
Author(s):  
A F Voronova ◽  
J E Buss ◽  
T Patschinsky ◽  
T Hunter ◽  
B M Sefton
Keyword(s):  
Protein Kinase ◽  
Cell Lines ◽  
Elevated Level ◽  
Kinase Activity ◽  
Peptide Mapping ◽  
Lymphoma Cell ◽  
Protein Kinase Activity ◽  
Thymic Tissue ◽  
Tyrosine Protein Kinase

The LSTRA murine thymoma cell line contains an elevated level of tyrosine protein kinase activity. When a microsomal preparation from these cells is incubated in vitro with ATP, the principal tyrosine protein kinase substrate is a 56,000-dalton protein, p56. We have found that an activity phosphorylating p56 on tyrosine can also be detected at low levels in microsomes from most, but not all, T lymphoma cell lines and from normal thymic tissue. Only 1 of 30 other lymphoma cell lines was found to contain an elevated level of such a tyrosine protein kinase. An activity that phosphorylated p56 in vitro was not detectable in the cells of other hematopoietic lineages. Anti-peptide antibodies reactive with the site of in vitro tyrosine phosphorylation of p56 allowed us to determine that the apparent abundance of the p56 polypeptide parallels closely the level of the tyrosine protein kinase activity in the cell lines examined. This suggests that p56 is the protein kinase responsible for the elevated tyrosine protein kinase activity in LSTRA cells and that the phosphorylation of p56 observed in vitro results from autophosphorylation. Two-dimensional tryptic peptide mapping revealed that p56 is distinct from the proteins encoded by the cellular genes which are the progenitors of retroviral tyrosine protein kinases, src, yes, fgr, abl, fes, and ros. Additionally, none of these proto-oncogenes was found to be transcribed at elevated levels in LSTRA or Thy19 cells. Like the catalytic subunit of the cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase, the cellular and viral forms of p60src, and the protein phosphatase calcineurin B, p56 contains covalently bound fatty acid.

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