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Choline kinase and ethanolamine kinase are separate, soluble enzymes in rat liver.

Choline kinase and ethanolamine kinase are located in the cytosol from rat liver and have been copurified more than 500-fold by affinity chromatography [P. J. Brophy and D. E. Vance (1976) FEBS Lett. 62, 123-125]. Kinetic properties of the two activities were determined. Choline kinase had a Km for choline of 0.033 mM and ethanolamine was a competitive inhibitor (Ki = 6.2 mM). Ethanolamine kinase had a Km for ethanolamine of 7.7 mM and choline was a 'mixed' type of inhibitor with a Ki of 0.037 mM. Both enzymes activities responded in a similar fashion to the adenylate energy charge. Betaine and choline phosphate partially inhibited both kinases with a 93% inhibition of the ethanolamine kinase by 5 mM choline phosphate. CTP and ethanolaminephosphate partially inhibited the ethanolamine kinase, but not the choline kinase. Other metabolites tested had negliglible effects on both kinases. The affinity-column-purified enzyme was analyzed by disc gel electrophoresis which resolved the two activities. Hence, although many of the properties of the two activities are similar, choline kinase and ethanolamine kinase must be separate enzymes. Analysis of rat liver cytosol by disc gel electrophoresis indicated four isoenzymes for choline kinase and ethanolamine kinase.

Adenine Nucleotides

Effect of Mg2+ concentration on the cAMP-dependent protein kinase-catalyzed activation of rabbit skeletal muscle phosphorylase kinase.

Phosphorylase kinase was found to be activated and phosphorylated at 10mM Mg2+ by the cAMP-dependent protein kinase-catalyzed reaction ot much higher levels than observed previously when reactions were carried out in 1 to 2 mM Mg2+ (Cohen, P. (1973) Eur. J. Biochem. 34, 1; Hayakawa, T., Perkin, J.P., and Krebs, E.G. (1973) Biochemistry 12, 574). That the reaction at 10 mM Mg2+ is protein kinase-catalyzed is supported by several observations: (a) the reaction is facilitated by the addition of protein kinase; (b) the reaction depends on cAMP when protein kinase holoenzyme is uded; (c) the reaction is not inhibited by 1 mM ethylene glycol bis(beta-aminoethyl ether) N,N'-tetraacetate which is known to inhibit autoactivation and autophosphorylation of phosphorylase kinase; and (d) the protein inhibitor of protein kinase inhibits this reaction. The phosphorylation and activation of phosphorylase kinase seem to occur in two phases. At low Mg2+ only the first phase is manifested and involves the incorporation of 2 mol of phosphate, 1 mol into each of Subunits A and B. At high Mg2+ additional sites are phosphorylated almost exclusively on Subunit A, with phosphate incorporation approaching the final level of 7 to 9 mol. Enzyme activity at high Mg2+ is 2 to 3 times higher than that observed when activation is studied at low Mg2+. The observation that both casein and type II histone are phosphorylated to the same extent at 1 mM and 10 mM Mg2+ suggested that high Mg2+ may be altering the conformation of phosphorylase kinase thus rendering more phosphorylation sites accessible to protein kinase. Since the phosphorylation of phosphorylase kinase by either the protein kinase-catalyzed or autocatalytic reaction can result in the incorporation of 7 to 9 mol of phosphate, the finding that only about seven sites become phosphorylated by both mechanisms acting together suggest that activation by these two mechanisms may involve common phosphorylation sites.

Animals

Creatine kinase in serum: 2. Interference of adenylate kinase with the assay.

Interference of adenylate kinase with Oliver's method [Biochem. J. 61, 116 (1955)] for creatine kinase is usually suppressed by including an adenylate kinase inhibitor, AMP. We studied the kinetics and compared the inhibition capacities of AMP and diadenosine pentaphosphate. Both are competitive inhibitors, AMP being markedly weaker, with a Ki of about 300 mumol/liter for adenylate kinase from erythrocyte, muscle, and liver. AMP also weakly inhibitis creatine kinase. Diadenosine pentaphosphate inhibits erythrocyte and muscle adenylate kinase strongly (Ki about 0.03 mumol/liter), the liver isoenzyme less strongly (Ki about 3 mumol/liter), and has no effect on creatine kinase up to 100 mumol/liter. All three adenylate kinases may be present in a patinet's serum, causing sample blanks to be high in a creatine kinase assay that lacks inhibitors. In acute hepatic damage, liver adenylate kinase activity in serum can be grossly increased. Use of sufficient diadenosine pentaphosphate alone for complete inhibition is relatively expensive. Consequently, we recommend a combination of both inhibitors. Diadenosine pentaphosphate, 10 mumol, combined with 5 mmol of AMP per liter inhibits adenylate kinase from erythrocytes and muscle by 97% and from liver by 95%.

Acute Disease

Effect of protein kinase modulator on cAMP-dependent protein kinase-catalyzed phosphorylation of phospholamban and stimulation of calcium transport in cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum.

The heat-stable protein (protein kinase modulator), partially purified from fresh bovine heart, possessed the ability to inhibit and stimulate adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase and guanosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cGMP)-dependent protein kinase activities, respectively. The inhibitory activity of protein kinase modulator on cAMP-dependent protein kinase was abolished almost completely by trypsin treatment, while the ability to stimulate cGMP-dependent protein kinase activity was resistant to trypsin. Fractionation by a linear potassium phosphate gradient on DEAE-cellulose column did not clearly separate both activities. Phosphorylation of cardiac microsomal component, "phospholamban" (molecular weight = 22,000), was inhibited almost completely by the saturating amounts of protein kinase modulator. This inhibition of phospholamban phosphorylation by protein kinase modulator was accompanied by a decreased Ca uptake rate that had been stimulated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. These findings indicate that protein kinase modulator is functional in controlling the cAMP-dependent protein kinase-catalyzed phosphorylation of phospholamban and the rate of calcium transport, lending further support for the previously proposed mechanism, in which phospholamban is assumed to serve as a regulator of calcium transport in cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum.

Animals

The modulator-dependent protein kinase. A multifunctional protein kinase activatable by the Ca2+-dependent modulator protein of the cyclic nucleotide system.

A protein kinase which depends on the simultaneous presence of Ca2+ and the modulator protein for its histone phosphorylation activity has been demonstrated in rabbit skeletal muscle and partially purified. The purified enzyme was not activated by cAMP, cGMP, or incubation with trypsin. Nor was the enzyme inhibited by the protein inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase. In addition to histone, myosin light chains and phosphorylase kinase served as substrates for the protein kinase, and their phosphorylation also depended on the presence of Ca2+ and the modulator protein. The phosphorylation of phosphorylase kinase was accompanied with a marked activation of the enzyme. The results suggest that the protein kinase has multiple functions and may be involved in the mediation of Ca2+ effects in many biological processes. It is proposed that this enzyme be designated as the modulator-dependent protein kinase. The modulator-dependent protein kinase may be identical to the myosin light chain kinase; chicken gizzard light chain kinase has been shown activatable by the modulator protein (Dabrowska, R., Sherry, J. M. F., Aramatorio, D. K., and Hartshorne, D. J. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 253-258).

Animals

An approach to the antigenic structure of arginine kinase and creatine kinase. Physical, chemical and immunological study of some modified derivatives.

The antigenic structure of arginine kinase and creatine kinase has been approached using chemical modifications and enzymatic cleavage. Mild performic oxidation that, with a restricted number of oxidized amino acid residues, results for both enzymes in a severe decrease of the helical structure and in a large increase of the protein-solvent interactions, affects differently their antigenic reactivity: when compared with antisera to the homologous native enzymes, arginine kinase and its oxidized derivative cross-react fully, while creatine kinase and its oxidized derivative cross-react only about 30%. The persistence of the antigenic reactivity of arginine kinase through drastic structural alterations is confirmed by the high inhibitory capacity (about 80%) of crude tryptic hydrolyzates towards the combination of argining kinase with its specific antibodies. Tryptic peptides of creatine kinase, obtained in the same conditions, inhibit weakly (about 12%) the homologous antigen-antibody interaction. The participation of the lysines in the antigenicity of arginine kinase and creatine kinase is suggested by the enhanced inhibitory capacity of the tryptic hydrolyzates when the cleavage is restricted to the arginyl peptide bounds, and was verified for arginine kinase through assays with lysine-modified derivatives.

Amino Acids

Phosphatidylinositol kinase and diphosphoinositide kinase of rat kidney cortex: properties and subcellular localization.

The properties of phosphatidylinositol kinase and diphosphoinositide kinase from rat kidney cortex were studied. The enzymes were completely Mg2+-dependent. Cutscum detergent activated phosphatidylinositol kinase, but diphosphoinositide kinase was inhibited by all detergents tested. The pH optima were 7.7 for phosphatidylinositol kinase and 6.5 for diphosphoinositide kinase. On subcellular fractionation of kidney-cortex homogenates by differential centriflgation, the distribution of phosphatidylinositol kinase resembled that of the marker enzymes for brush-border, endoplasmic-reticulum and Golgi membranes. Diphosphoinositide kinase distribution resembled that of thiamin pyrophosphatase (assayed in the absence of ATP), diphosphoinositide phosphatase and triphosphoinositide phosphatase. Activities of both kinases were low in purified brush-border fragments. Diphosphoinositide kinase is probably localized in the Golgi complex.

Adenosine Triphosphate

Creatine kinase in serum: 3. Further study of adenylate kinase inhibitors.

In search of an appropriate inhibitor to suppress the interference of adenylate kinase with the creatine kinase assay, we found that the combination diadenosine pentaphosphate (10 mumol/liter) and AMP (5 mmol/liter) is a better inhibitor than is fluoride (25 mmol/liter). The latter inhibits adenylate kinase uncompetitively and weakly (Ki = 2.5 mmol/liter), and must be incorporated in the starting reagent, and at 30 degrees C it becoms fully effective only after a lag phase of 6 min. In this concentration, fluoride inhibits adenylate kinase from erythrocytes, muscle, liver or platelets by 94, 92, 88, and 87%, respectively, and creatine kinase by 8%. Bromide and chloride also inhibit creatine kinase. Attempts to replace AMP by a specific inhibitor of liver adenylate kinase failed. Homologs of diadenosine pentaphosphate with either fewer or more phosphoryl groups in the polyphosphate bridge inhibited even more weakly than did the pentaphosphate. Platelets can significantly contribute to adenylate kinase activity in serum. The inhibitor combination inhibited adenylate kinase from platelets by 90%.

Adenine Nucleotides

Fractionation of two protein kinases from avian myeloblastosis virus and characterization of the protein kinase activity preferring basic phosphoacceptor proteins.

Two protein kinase activities were fractionated from purified virions of avian myeloblastosis virus. Distinguishing characteristics of these two protein kinases included: (i) their binding properties during purification by ion-exchange chromatography; (ii) their estimated molecular weights; and (iii) their phosphoacceptor protein specificities. The protein kinase that bound to the anion exchanger DEAE-cellulose (pH 7.2) had an estimated molecular weight of 60,000 to 64,000 and preferred basic phosphoacceptor proteins. The protein kinase that bound to the cation exchanger phosphocellulose (pH 7.2) had an estimated molecular weight of 42,000 to 46,000 and preferred acidic phosphoacceptor proteins. The protein kinase preferring basic phosphoacceptor proteins was further purified and characterized. Optimal transfer of phosphate catalyzed by this enzyme required a divalent metal ion, a sulfhydryl-reducing agent, and ATP as phosphate donor. GTP was not an effective phosphate donor at concentrations comparable to ATP; and the cyclic nucleotides cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP neither stimulated nor inhibited protein phosphorylation by the protein kinase. The specificity of the protein kinase for basic phosphoacceptor proteins extended to proteins from avian myeloblastosis virus, in that the neutral to basic virion proteins p12, p19, and p27 served as phosphate acceptors. In addition, the protein kinase also appeared to phosphorylate itself. The role(s) of this virion-associated protein kinase is discussed.

Avian Leukosis Virus

Isolation of stimulatory modulator of guanosine 3':5'-monophosphate-dependent protein kinase from mammalian heart devoid of inhibitory modulator of adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate-dependent protein kinase.

The stimulatory and inhibitory activities in the crude preparation of protein kinase modulator from dog heart were separated by Sephadex G-100 gel filtration, and the stimulatory modulator was further purified by DEAE-cellulose chromatography. The isolated stimulatory modulator, as the crude modulator preparation, stimulated the activity of the purified guanosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cGMP)-dependent protein kinases of both mammalian and arthropod origins in the presence of cGMP. The cGMP-dependent protein kinases were not activated by cGMP in the absence of either the isolated stimulatory modulator or the crude modulator. The stimulatory modulator, unlike the crude modulator had no effect on the activity of adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase. The stimulatory modulator was a protein since its activity was destroyed by trypsin but was resistant to hydrolysis by DNase, RNase, phospholipase C, and lysozyme. The isolated inhibitory modulator, presumably the same as the protein inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase reported by Walsh et al. (Wash. D.A., Ashby, C.D., Gonzalez, C., Calkins, D., Fischer. E.H., and Krebs, E.G. (1971) J. Biol. Chem. 246, 1977-1985), depressed the cAMP-stimulated activity of cAMP-dependent protein kinase as did the crude preparation of protein kinase modulator. The isolated inhibitory modulator, unlike the crude preparation, was without effect on cGMP-dependent protein kinase. The present findings provide evidence to support that in mammals there are separate proteins for the stimulatory and the inhibitory activities of protein kinase modulator, in contrast to the modulator from an arthropod tissue (lobster tail muscle, Donnelly et al. (Donnelly, T.E., Jr., Kuo, J.F., Reyes, P.L., Liu, Y.P., and Greengard, P. (1973) J. Biol. Chem. 248, 190-198) which has been shown to possess both activities.

Animals

Phosphorylation of rat kidney pyruvate kinase type L by cyclic 3',5'-AMP-dependent protein kinase.

Pyruvate kinase (ATP:pyruvate 2-O-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.40) type L was partly purified from rat kidney. During the last two purification steps, the incorporation of [32P]phosphate into protein on incubation with [32P]ATP and cyclic 3',5'-AMP-dependent protein kinase was found to parallel the pyruvate kinase activity. After phosphorylation of the enzyme, a major radioactive band with a molecular weight of 57 000 was found on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis [32P]Phosphorylserine was isolated from the kidney pyruvate kinase. Immunological identity was found between the liver and kidney pyruvate kinases type L. By autoradiography of high-voltage electropherograms after partial acid hydrolysis of the phosphorylated rat liver and kidney pyruvate kinases type L, identical results were obtained. The affinity for phosphoenolpyruvate was found to be decreased by phosphorylation of the enzyme with a change in the apparent Km from 0.15 mM to 0.35 mM. After incubation of the phosphorylated kidney pyruvate kinase with phosphatase the phosphoenolpyruvate saturation curve was found to be identical to that for the unphosphorylated enzyme. Thus, the activity of the rat kidney pyruvate kinase type L is with all probability regulated by a reversible phosphorylation-dephosphorylation reaction, thereby indicating that hormonal regulation of gluconeogenesis via cyclic AMP may be of importance in the renal cortex.

Animals

Inactivation of pyruvate kinase type M2 from chicken liver by phosphorylation, catalyzed by a cAMP-independent protein kinase.

A cAMP-independent protein kinase from chicken liver phosphorylated and inactivated pyruvate kinase type M2 from the same tissue. Complete inactivation was reached when 4 mol of phosphate were incorporated/mol of tetrameric pyruvate kinase. The protein kinase bound with high affinity to pyruvate kinase type M2 (Km value for pyruvate kinase = 6 X 10(-10)M; it phosphorylated phosvitin and casein but not histones, ATP and GTP were substrates. The differences between the properties of this protein kinase in the interconversion of pyruvate kinase and that described previously are discussed.

Animals

The genetic system of the L-type pyruvate kinase forms in man. Subunit structure, interrelation and kinetic characteristics of the pyruvate kinase enzymes from erythrocytes and liver.

Pyruvate kinase (ATP: pyruvate 2-O-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.40) from human liver and red cells has been purified to homogeneity; its subunit structure and some of its kinetic characteristics have been studied. The influence of a partial proteolysis by trypsin on the subunit structure, the isozymic pattern and the kinetic characteristics of red cell and liver enzyme have been investigated. From the results of this study we may conclude that: 1. Liver (L-type) pyruvate kinase is composed of 4 identical L subunits while the major form of erythrocyte enzyme (PK-R2) is a heterotetramer designated as L2L2', the molecular weight of L' being slightly higher than that of L subunits (63 000 and 58 000 respectively). Pyruvate kinase PK-R1, predominant in the erythroblasts and the young red cells, is composed of four identical L' subunits. 2. A mild tryptic attack is able to transform PK-R1 into PK-R2, then PK-R2 into pyruvate kinase L (PK-L). The same proteolytic treatment transforms the L' subunits into L ones. 3. Consequently L-type pyruvate kinase seems to be initially synthesized in the erythroid precursors as an L4' enzyme secondarily partially proteolysed into L2L2'. In liver a very active proteolytic system would be responsible for the total transformation into L4 pyruvate kinase. 4. L4' enzyme exhibits Michaelis-Menten kinetic behaviour with an apparent Michaelis constant of 3.8 mM whereas L4 enzyme shows both positive and negative homotropic interactions towards phosphoenolpyruvate and has [S] 0.5 of 1.2 mM. The characteristics of L2L2' are roughly intermediate between those of L4' and of L4. Fructose 1,6-biphosphate decreases [S]0.5 for these three pyruvate kinase forms without suppressing the differences in the apparent affinity for phosphoenolpyruvate of these enzymes. 5. L4 pyruvate kinase is more inhibited by Mg-ATP than L4', with L2L2' in the intermediate range. 6. Tryptic treatment of each enzyme form studied transforms its kinetic behaviour into that observed for L4.

Erythrocytes

Mechanism of interferon action: phosphorylation of protein synthesis initiation factor eIF-2 in interferon-treated human cells by a ribosome-associated kinase processing site specificity similar to hemin-regulated rabbit reticulocyte kinase.

The phosphorylation of purified protein synthesis factors catalyzed by protein kinase preparations isolated from interferon-treated human amnion cells was examined. Ribosomal salt-wash fractions prepared from interferon-treated human cells contained a protein kinase that catalyzed the [gamma-(32)P]ATP-mediated phosphorylation of the 38,000-dalton subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF-2alpha); this kinase activity was significantly enhanced in interferon-treated as compared to untreated cells. The tryptic [(32)P]phosphopeptide pattern obtained for eIF-2alpha phosphorylated by the interferon-mediated human kinase was indistinguishable from the pattern obtained for eIF-2alpha phosphorylated by the hemin-regulated rabbit reticulocyte kinase when analyzed by thin-layer chromatography with three different solvent systems and by high-voltage electrophoresis. O-[(32)P]Phosphoserine was liberated by partial acid hydrolysis from eIF-2alpha phosphorylated by either the human or the rabbit kinase. In addition to the phosphorylation of eIF-2alpha, interferon treatment of human cells enhanced the phosphorylation of two additional ribosome-associated proteins designated P(1) and P(f). The major phosphoester linkage observed for the human, as well as murine, phosphoprotein P(1) was O-phosphoserine. The interferon-mediated phosphorylation of both eIF-2alpha and protein P(1) was dependent upon the presence of RNA with double-stranded character; P(f) phosphorylation was not affected by double-stranded RNA. These results suggest that the interferon-mediated ribosome-associated human protein kinase catalyzes the phosphorylation of eIF-2alpha in a site-specific manner that is apparently identical with the reaction catalyzed by the hemin-regulated rabbit reticulocyte kinase; hence, the phosphorylation of eIF-2 may play a role in regulating the initiation of translation in interferon-treated cells.

Cells, Cultured

[Sensitivity of creatine kinase and creatine kinase MB in myocardial infarction. Evaluation of a new optimized standard method (author's transl)].

In 70 patients with confirmed transmural myocardial infarction the sensitivity of creatine kinase and creatine kinase MB at different times after admission was investigated by 364 measurements. Beside the number of correctly positive results the optimized standard method hitherto used was compared with the new optimized standard method with N-acetylcystein as activator. During the first 12 hours after admission the percentage of correctly positive results was 64,4% for creatine kinase (GSH) and 86,7% for creatine kinase (NAC). The sensitivity of cretine kinase MB, however, was found to be 71,1% (GSH) and 86,7% (NAC). With respect to the poor specifity of creatine kinase the sensitivity of creatine kinase MB, especially when using the new optimized standard method is superior. Similar results were established 24 and 48 hours after admission. Creatine kinase MB only fails in detection of myocardial infarction if the stroke is older than 3 days or if the enzyme activity determination intervals are too long.

Acetylcysteine

Comparison of calcium-activated, cyclic nucleotide-independent protein kinase and adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate-dependent protein kinase as regards the ability to stimulate glycogen breakdown in vitro.

A cyclic nucleotide-independent protein kinase, which was produced from its proenzyme upon limited proteolysis by a Ca2+-dependent protease (Takai, Y., Yamamoto, M., Inoue, M., Kishimoto, A., & Nishizuka , Y. (1977) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 77, 542-550), showed an ability to phosphorylate not only muscle glycogen phosphorylase kinase but also glycogen synthase, resulting in activation and inactivation of the respective enzymes, although the protein kinase was less active than adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP)-dependent protein kinase toward glycogen synthase. Available evidence indicates that this new protein kinase shows pleiotropic functions apparently similar to those described for cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Nevertheless, these protein kinases were clearly distinguishable from each other in their response to cyclic nucleotides and susceptibility to protein inhibitor.

Adenosine Triphosphate

Regulation in vitro of rat liver pyruvate kinase by phosphorylation-dephosphorylation reactions, catalyzed by cyclic-AMP dependent protein kinases and a histone phosphatase.

1. Cyclic-AMP dependent protein kinases, resolved by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and hydroxylapatite, catalysed the phosphorylation of rat liver pyruvate kinase and calf thymus histones by [gamma32P]ATP. [32P]phosphopeptides, from acid hydrolysates of pyruvate kinase phosphorylated by the different protein kinase fractions, displayed identical electrophoretic patterns. Phosphorylation inhibited pyruvate kinase activity. 2. Full activity was restored when phosphorylated pyruvate kinase was dephosphorylated by a histone phosphatase from the soluble fraction of rat liver. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that pyruvate kinase is regulated by phosphorylation-dephosphorylation reactions.

Animals