Attenuation of changes in sarcoplasmic reticular gene expression in cardiac hypertrophy by propranolol and verapamil |
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Authors: | Takeo Satoshi Elmoselhi Adel B Goel Raj Sentex Emmanuelle Wang Jingwei Dhalla Naranjan S |
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Institution: | (1) Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Santiago, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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Abstract: | The prothymosin a kinase (ProTK) is an apparently novel enzyme that is responsible for the phosphorylation of prothymosin (ProT), involved in the proliferation of mammalian cells. The present study investigated the properties of this enzyme. ProTK is more effectively activated by Mn2+ than by other divalent cations, and its activity is unaffected by RNA. Its principal substrate in proliferating cells appears to be ProTa. Both in vivo and in vitro, it is unable to phosphorylate the peptides thymosin 1 and thymosin 11, derived from the amino terminus of ProT, despite the fact that the sites of phosphorylation of ProT are contained within this part of its sequence. In trials in vivo, inhibition of gene expression abolished both phosphorylation of ProT and ProTK activity. ProTK is located in the cytosolic fractions throughout the cell cycle. Its activity, which is dependent on cell proliferation, increases markedly during S phase and begins to decline as the cell enters G2. Studies of the effects of activators and inhibitors of protein kinases involved in signal transduction pathways suggest that ProTK is activated by phosphorylation in a mitogen-initiated pathway that is dependent on PKC; however, PKC does not itself phosphorylate ProTK, which is therefore presumably phosphorylated by another kinase. |
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Keywords: | prothymosin " target="_blank">gif" alt="agr" align="BASELINE" BORDER="0"> protein kinases signal transduction |
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