scholarly journals Characterization of Ca2+-activated protein phosphatase activity in exocrine pancreas

1985 ◽  
Vol 231 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
D B Burnham
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Phosphatase Activity ◽  
Protein Phosphatase ◽  
Exocrine Pancreas ◽  
Deae Cellulose ◽  
Maximal Activity ◽  
Enzyme Activation ◽  
Major Protein ◽  
Phosphorylase Kinase ◽  
Muscle Phosphorylase

Ca2+-activated protein phosphatase activity was demonstrated in mouse pancreatic acinar cytosol with α-casein and skeletal-muscle phosphorylase kinase as substrates. This phosphatase activity preferentially dephosphorylated the alpha subunit of phosphorylase kinase. After DEAE-cellulose chromatography, the Ca2+-activated phosphatase activity became dependent on exogenous calmodulin for maximal activity. Half-maximal activation was achieved at 0.5 +/- 0.1 microM-Ca2+. Trifluoperazine completely inhibited Ca2+-activated phosphatase activity, with half-maximal inhibition occurring at 8.5 +/- 0.6 microM. Mn2+, but not Mg2+, at 1 mM concentration could substitute for Ca2+ in eliciting full enzyme activation. The apparent Mr of the phosphatase as determined by Sephadex G-150 chromatography was 93000 +/- 1000. Submitting active fractions obtained after Sephadex chromatography to calmodulin affinity chromatography resulted in the resolution of a major protein of Mr 55500 +/- 300. In conclusion, Ca2+-activated protein phosphatase activity has been identified in exocrine pancreas and has several features in common with Ca2+-activated calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatases previously isolated from brain and skeletal muscle. It is possible that this Ca2+-activated phosphatase may utilize as substrates certain acinar-cell phosphoproteins previously shown to undergo dephosphorylation in response to Ca2+-mediated secretagogues.

scholarly journals Specificity of a protein phosphatase inhibitor from rabbit skeletal muscle

1977 ◽  
Vol 162 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Cohen ◽  
G A Nimmo ◽  
J F Antoniw
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Protein Phosphatase ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Glycogen Synthase ◽  
Gel Filtration ◽  
Deae Cellulose ◽  
Specific Inhibitor ◽  
Phosphorylase Kinase ◽  
Phosphatase Inhibitor ◽  
Protein Phosphatase Inhibitor

A hear-stable protein, which is a specific inhibitor of protein phosphatase-III, was purified 700-fold from skeletal muscle by a procedure that involved heat-treatment at 95 degrees C, chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and gel filtration on Sephadex G-100. The final step completely resolved the protein phosphatase inhibitor from the protein inhibitor of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. The phosphorylase phosphatase, beta-phosphorylase kinase phosphatase, glycogen synthase phosphatase-1 and glycogen synthase phosphatase-2 activities of protein phosphatase-III [Antoniw, J. F., Nimmo, H. G., Yeaman, S. J. & Cohen, P.(1977) Biochem.J. 162, 423-433] were inhibited in a very similar manner by the protein phosphatase inhibitor and at least 95% inhibition was observed at high concentrations of inhibitor. The two forms of protein phosphatase-III, termed IIIA and IIIB, were equally susceptible to the protein phosphatase inhibitor. The protein phosphatase inhibitor was at least 200 times less effective in inhibiting the activity of protein phosphatase-I and protein phosphatase-II. The high degree of specificity of the inhibitor for protein phosphatase-III was used to show that 90% of the phosphorylase phosphatase and glycogen synthase phosphatase activities measured in muscle extracts are catalysed by protein phosphatase-III. Protein phosphatase-III was tightly associated with the protein-glycogen complex that can be isolated from skeletal muscle, whereas the protein phosphatase inhibitor and protein phosphatase-II were not. The results provide further evidence that the enzyme that catalyses the dephosphorylation of the alpha-subunit of phosphorylase kinase (protein phosphatase-II) and the enzyme that catalyses the dephosphorylation of the beta-subunit of phosphorylase kinase (protein phosphatase-III) are distinct. The results suggest that the protein phosphatase inhibitor may be a useful probe for differentiating different classes of protein phosphatases in mammalian cells.

scholarly journals Neural regulation of the formation of skeletal muscle phosphorylase kinase holoenzyme in adult and developing rat muscle

1997 ◽  
Vol 325 (3) ◽  
pp. 793-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean C. NG ◽  
Richard C. CARLSEN ◽  
Donal A. WALSH
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Muscle Development ◽  
Rapid Decline ◽  
Phosphorylase Kinase ◽  
Β Subunit ◽  
Subunit Protein ◽  
Subunit Mrna ◽  
Γ Subunit ◽  
Muscle Phosphorylase ◽  
Denervated Muscles

Neural influences on the co-ordination of expression of the multiple subunits of skeletal muscle phosphorylase kinase and their assembly to form the holoenzyme complex, α4β4γ4δ4, have been examined during denervation and re-innervation of adult skeletal muscle and during neonatal muscle development. Denervation of the tibialis anterior and extensor digitorum longus muscles of the rat hindlimb was associated with a rapid decline in the mRNA for the γ subunit, and an abrupt decrease in γ-subunit protein. The levels of the α- and β-subunit proteins in the denervated muscles also declined rapidly, their time course of reduction being similar to that for the γ-subunit protein, but they did not decrease to the same extent. In contrast with the rapid decline in γ-subunit mRNA upon denervation, α- and β-subunit mRNAs stayed at control innervated levels for approx. 8–10 days, but then decreased rapidly. Their decline coincided very closely with the onset of re-innervation. Re-innervation of the denervated muscles, which occurs rapidly and uniformly after the sciatic nerve crush injury, produced an eventual slow and prolonged recovery of the mRNA for all three subunits and parallel increases in each of the subunit proteins. A similar co-ordinated increase of both subunit mRNA and subunit proteins of the phosphorylase kinase holoenzyme was observed during neonatal muscle development, during the period when the muscles were attaining their adult pattern of motor activity. The phosphorylase kinase holoenzyme remains in a non-activated form during all of these physiological changes, as is compatible with the presence of the full complement of the regulatory subunits. These data are consistent with a model whereby the transcriptional and translational expression of phosphorylase kinase γ subunit occurs only with concomitant expression of the α and β subunits. This would ensure that free and unregulated, activated γ subunit alone, which would give rise to unregulated glycogenolysis, is not produced. The data also suggest that control of phosphorylase kinase subunit expression and the formation of the holoenzyme in skeletal muscle is provided by the motor nerve, probably through imposed levels or patterns of muscle activity.

scholarly journals Control of rat skeletal-muscle phosphorylase phosphatase activity by adrenaline

1978 ◽  
Vol 176 (1) ◽  
pp. 347-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
S H Tao ◽  
F L Huang ◽  
A Lynch ◽  
W H Glinsmann
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Cyclic Amp ◽  
Phosphatase Activity ◽  
Glycogen Synthase ◽  
Rat Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Inhibitor Activity ◽  
Phosphatase Inhibitor ◽  
Heat Stable ◽  
Muscle Phosphorylase ◽  
Isolated Rat

Administration of adrenaline to an isolated rat hindlimb preparation rapidly decreased muscle phosphorylase phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.17) activity and increased heat-stable and trypsin-labile phosphatase inhibitor activity. This was associated with increased tissue cyclic AMP concentrations, phosphorylase (EC 2.4.1.1) activation and glycogen synthase (EC 2.4.1.11) inactivation.

scholarly journals Comparison of the substrate specificities of protein phosphatases involved in the regulation of glycogen metabolism in rabbit skeletal muscle

1977 ◽  
Vol 162 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
J F Antoniw ◽  
H G Nimmo ◽  
S J Yeaman ◽  
P Cowen
Keyword(s):  
Phosphatase Activity ◽  
Protein Phosphatase ◽  
Glycogen Synthase ◽  
Protein Phosphatases ◽  
Gel Filtration ◽  
Beta Subunit ◽  
Alpha Subunit ◽  
Phosphorylase Kinase ◽  
Substrate Specificities ◽  
Phosphatase Activities

Muscle extracts were subjected to fractionation with ethanol, chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, precipitation with (NH4)2SO4 and gel filtration on Sephadex G-200. These fractions were assayed for protein phosphatase activities by using the following seven phosphoprotein substrates: phosphorylase a, glycogen synthase b1, glycogen synthase b2, phosphorylase kinase (phosphorylated in either the alpha-subunit or the beta-subunit), histone H1 and histone H2B. Three protein phosphatases with distinctive specificities were resolved by the final gel-filtration step and were termed I, II and III. Protein phosphatase-I, apparent mol.wt. 300000, was an active histone phosphatase, but it accounted for only 10-15% of the glycogen synthase phosphatase-1 and glycogen synthase phosphatase-2 activities and 2-3% of the phosphorylase kinase phosphatase and phosphorylase phosphatase activity recovered from the Sephadex G-200 column. Protein phosphatase-II, apparent mol.wt. 170000, possessed histone phosphatase activity similar to that of protein phosphatase-I. It possessed more than 95% of the activity towards the alpha-subunit of phosphorylase kinase that was recovered from Sephadex G-200. It accounted for 10-15% of the glycogen synthase phosphatase-1 and glycogen synthase phosphatase-2 activity, but less than 5% of the activity against the beta-subunit of phosphorylase kinase and 1-2% of the phosphorylase phosphatase activity recovered from Sephadex G-200. Protein phosphatase-III was the most active histone phosphatase. It possessed 95% of the phosphorylase phosphatase and beta-phosphorylase kinase phosphatase activities, and 75% of the glycogen synthase phosphatase-1 and glycogen synthase phosphatase-2 activities recovered from Sephadex G-200. It accounted for less than 5% of the alpha-phosphorylase kinase phosphatase activity. Protein phosphatase-III was sometimes eluted from Sephadex-G-200 as a species of apparent mol.wt. 75000(termed IIIA), sometimes as a species of mol.wt. 46000(termed IIIB) and sometimes as a mixture of both components. The substrate specificities of protein phosphatases-IIA and -IIB were identical. These findings, taken with the observation that phosphorylase phosphatase, beta-phosphorylase kinase phosphatase, glycogen synthase phosphatase-1 and glycogen synthase phosphatase-2 activities co-purified up to the Sephadex G-200 step, suggest that a single protein phosphatase (protein phosphatase-III) catalyses each of the dephosphorylation reactions that inhibit glycogenolysis or stimulate glycogen synthesis. This contention is further supported by results presented in the following paper [Cohen, P., Nimmo, G.A. & Antoniw, J.F. (1977) Biochem. J. 1628 435-444] which describes a heat-stable protein that is a specific inhibitor of protein phosphatase-III.

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