Toxicology Research Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Veterans Adminstration Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Abstract:
The presence of protein phosphokinase activity in a purified nuclear-membrane preparation from adult rat liver was demonstrated by measuring the incorporation of 32P from γ-32P-ATP into endogenous nuclear-membrane proteins as well as into the exogenous protein substrates, dephosphophosvitin (DPV) and lysine-rich histone (LRH). The activity of this enzyme toward DPV was 60 times greater than that toward LRH. cAMP and cGMP did not appear to affect the phosphorylation of endogenous-membrane proteins.