The effect of growth state on the activity of the protein kinase isoenzymes. An increase in type II cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase is correlated with growth arrest in G1 phase

Native polyacrylamide gels have been used to resolve protein kinase isoenzymes from cultured cells and the protein kinases have been identified by carrying out phosphorylation reactions in the gel. Following electrophoresis the gels were incubated with histone and [gamma-32P]ATP. The gels were then thoroughly washed and dried down, and the protein kinases were located by autoradiography. Protein kinase activity as measured in the gel system was a linear function of cytosol protein concentration up to about 100 microgram per channel and incorporation of 32P into histone was time dependent. Three bands of protein kinase activity were resolved in cytosol samples from baby hamster kidney (BHK) fibroblasts. The band with the lowest relative mobility utilized histone IIA or casein equally well as substrate protein whereas bands 2 and 3 demonstrated a clear preference for histone. Bands 2 and 3 displayed a relative mobility in electrophoresis that was identical to that observed for cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinases I and II from rat liver. Treatment of cytosol samples with cyclic AMP prior to electrophoresis resulted in the disappearance of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinases from the gel profile. This method was employed to identify bands 2 and 3 as cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinases. The protein kinases in growth-arrested cells were compared with proliferating cells. We have observed a 3.5-fold increase in the activity of Type II protein kinase as the cells arrest growth in G1 phase of the cell cycle. This increase in Type II is correlated with the increase in cells blocked in G1 and a decrease in Type II activity appears to be an early event in permitting cells to leave G1 and resume growth.     

Nuclear protein phosphorylation in isolated nuclei from HeLa cells. Evidence that 32P incorporation from [gamma-32P]GTP is catalyzed by nuclear kinase II

A nuclear system for studying nuclear protein phosphorylation is characterized, using as phosphate donor either low levels of [gamma-32P]GTP, low levels of [gamma-32P]ATP, or low levels of labeled ATP plus excess unlabeled GTP. Since nuclear casein kinase II is the only described nuclear protein kinase to use GTP with high affinity, low levels of GTP should specifically assay this enzyme. ATP should measure all kinases, and ATP plus unlabeled GTP should measure all kinases except nuclear casein kinase II (ATP-specific kinases). The results are consistent with these predictions. In contrast with the ATP-specific activity, endogenous phosphorylation with GTP was enhanced by 100 mM NaCl, inhibited by heparin and quercetin, stimulated by polyamines, and did not use exogenous histone as substrate. The GTP- and ATP-specific kinases phosphorylated different subsets of about 20 endogenous polypeptides each. Addition of purified casein kinase II enhanced the GTP-supported phosphorylation of the identical proteins that were phosphorylated by endogenous kinase. These results support the hypothesis that activity measured with GTP is catalyzed by nuclear casein kinase II, though other minor kinases which can use GTP are not ruled out. Preliminary observations with this system suggest that the major nuclear kinases exist in an inhibited state in nuclei, and that the effects of polyamines on nuclear casein kinase II activity are substrate specific. This nuclear system is used to determine if the C-proteins of hnRNP particles, previously shown to be substrates for nuclear casein kinase II in isolated particles, is phosphorylated by GTP in intact nuclei. The results demonstrate that the C-proteins are effectively phosphorylated by GTP, but in addition they are phosphorylated by ATP-specific kinase activity.     

Casein kinase II activity and polyamine-stimulated protein phosphorylation of cytosolic and plasma membrane proteins in bovine sperm

A highly purified preparation of sperm cytosolic protein kinase was obtained by repeated chromatography with phosphocellulose. The preferred substrate of the enzyme was casein and the activity was not stimulated by added Ca2+, calmodulin, or cAMP. With casein as substrate, both ATP and GTP served as phosphate donors and the activity was inhibited by low micromolar heparin and stimulated by low millimolar spermine and spermidine. These properties are characteristic of casein kinase II from other cells. Endogenous protein substrates of the enzyme in sperm cytosolic fractions and in plasma membranes were demonstrated by incubating the preparations with [gamma-32P]GTP, under conditions unfavorable to other protein kinases, and analyzing the products by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and autoradiography. Spermine greatly enhanced the phosphorylation of three (55, 92, and 106 kDa) proteins in both cytosolic and plasma membrane preparations. Our results indicate that polyamines play a role in modulating the phosphorylation state of proteins in sperm and may further regulate sperm function through this mechanism.     

Evidence of protein-tyrosine kinase activity in the bacterium Acinetobacter calcoaceticus

Protein phosphorylation was investigated in the bacterium Acinetobacter calcoaceticus both in vivo and in vitro. In cells grown with [32P]orthophosphate, several radioactive phosphoproteins were detected by gel electrophoresis and autoradiography. These proteins were shown to contain phosphoserine, phosphothreonine, and a relatively large proportion of phosphotyrosine residues. Incubation of cellular extracts with [gamma-32P] ATP also resulted in the phosphorylation of several proteins. At least four of them, namely an 81-kDa protein, were modified at tyrosine. No protein labeling occurred when extracts were incubated with [gamma-32P] ATP or [14C]ATP. Moreover, phosphoproteins were insensitive to snake venom phosphodiesterase. All together these results indicate that A. calcoaceticus harbors different protein kinases including a protein-tyrosine kinase activity. Further analysis of this activity showed that it has little, if any, functional similarity with eukaryotic protein-tyrosine kinases.     

Inhibition of casein kinase type 2 activity by formation of complexes with mRNA in vivo

It is known that casein kinase 2 possesses, besides the protein kinase, an RNA-binding activity. Using ligand blotting it has been demonstrated that the both activities are localized on the alpha- and alpha'-subunits of the enzyme. Casein kinase 2 is suppressed in vitro by polyuridylic acid. A part of the intracellular pool of casein kinase 2 is found in the informosomes. The informosomes and free proteins were separated by centrifugation in a sucrose density gradient, and each fraction was incubated with casein and [gamma-32P]ATP. The informosome-bound protein kinase is completely inhibited, while the free protein kinases heavily phosphorylate casein. It is concluded that the activity of casein kinase 2 can be regulated by the reversible formation of complexes with RNA.     

Possible identity of a membrane-bound with a soluble cyclic AMP-independent erythrocyte protein kinase that phosphorylates spectrin

A soluble casein kinase isolated and purified to homogeneity from the human erythrocyte cytosol by phosphocellulose and Sephadex G-200 chromatographies is indistinguishable from the membrane-bound casein (spectrin) kinase according to physical and site-specificity criteria. The soluble enzyme shows an Mr of about 30000 by gel filtration and comigrates with the purified membrane spectrin kinase as a single polypeptide of 32000 Da on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels. The soluble kinase phosphorylates spectrin in situ in spectrin kinase-depleted ghosts and catalyzes the in vitro phosphorylation of partially dephosphorylated spectrin with saturation kinetics identical to those displayed by the membrane spectrin kinase. When component 2 of spectrin that had been phosphorylated with [gamma-32P]ATP by either the soluble or the membrane kinases was subjected to limited proteolysis, the same 21500 Da papain-generated phosphopeptide was found to have been produced by the two enzymes. The same 21500 Da phosphopeptide was identified after papain digestion of spectrin isolated from intact cells that had been incubated with 32Pi. However, this particular peptide was not labeled in spectrin that had been phosphorylated in vitro by the catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Identical phosphopeptide patterns were obtained by gel filtration and two-dimensional peptide maps of trypsin-cleaved component 2 of spectrin that had been labeled in situ, in intact ghosts or in spectrin kinase-depleted ghosts supplemented with the soluble kinase. These findings indicate a possible identity of the soluble with the membrane-bound casein (spectrin) kinase.     

Intrinsic protein kinase activity in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation complexes

Mitochondrial protein phosphorylation is a well-recognized metabolic control mechanism, with the classical example of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) regulation by specific kinases and phosphatases of bacterial origin. However, despite the growing number of reported mitochondrial phosphoproteins, the identity of the protein kinases mediating these phosphorylation events remains largely unknown. The detection of mitochondrial protein kinases is complicated by the low concentration of kinase relative to that of the target protein, the lack of specific antibodies, and contamination from associated, but nonmatrix, proteins. In this study, we use blue native gel electrophoresis (BN-PAGE) to isolate rat and porcine heart mitochondrial complexes for screening of protein kinase activity. To detect kinase activity, one-dimensional BN-PAGE gels were exposed to [γ-(32)P]ATP and then followed by sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis. Dozens of mitochondrial proteins were labeled with (32)P in this setting, including all five complexes of oxidative phosphorylation and several citric acid cycle enzymes. The nearly ubiquitous (32)P protein labeling demonstrates protein kinase activity within each mitochondrial protein complex. The validity of this two-dimensional BN-PAGE method was demonstrated by detecting the known PDH kinases and phosphatases within the PDH complex band using Western blots and mass spectrometry. Surprisingly, these same approaches detected only a few additional conventional protein kinases, suggesting a major role for autophosphorylation in mitochondrial proteins. Studies on purified Complex V and creatine kinase confirmed that these proteins undergo autophosphorylation and, to a lesser degree, tenacious (32)P-metabolite association. In-gel Complex IV activity was shown to be inhibited by ATP, and partially reversed by phosphatase activity, consistent with an inhibitory role for protein phosphorylation in this complex. Collectively, this study proposes that many of the mitochondrial complexes contain an autophosphorylation mechanism, which may play a functional role in the regulation of these multiprotein units.     

A sensitive method for detection of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II activity in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel

A procedure for detecting protein kinase activities of the alpha and beta subunits of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is described. After electrophoresis, the gel was immersed in 6 M guanidine HCl for 1 h and then in a buffer containing 0.04% Tween 40 for 16 h at 4 degrees C for renaturation of the resolved polypeptides. The renatured polypeptides in the gel were incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP for phosphorylation of either the substrate included in the polyacrylamide gel or the kinase itself. After removal of the unreacted [gamma-32P]ATP, the protein kinase activities were visualized by autoradiography. Two radioactive protein bands of Mr 50,000 and 60,000, which corresponded to the alpha and beta subunits, were detected only when the phosphorylation was carried out in the presence of Ca2+ and calmodulin. Approximately 0.05 micrograms of the enzyme could be detected on a gel containing no protein substrate. When microtubule-associated protein 2 was included in the gel, the sensitivity of the detection of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in the gel was more than one order of magnitude higher than that in the gel containing no protein substrate.     

Purification and characterization of Novikoff ascites tumor protein kinase.

A protein kinase, designed KII, has been purified 5000-fold from Novikoff ascites tumor cells. The purification procedure also allows for the purification of a second major protein kinase, designated KI, as well as RNA polymerase I and II. Purified KII has a sedimentation constant of 7.6 S and a Stokes radius of 39 A, suggesting a molecular weight of about 122000. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the enzyme in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate suggests the enzyme is composed of subunits of molecular weights 44 000, 40 000, and 26 000 present in a molar ratio of 1:1:2. Incubation of the enzyme alone in the presence of [gamma-32P]ATP results in the phosphorylation of the 26 000-dalton subunit. Protein kinase II actively phosphorylates phosvitin, casein, and nonhistone chromosomal proteins but does not phosphorylate basic proteins such as histones or protamine to an appreciable extent. Km values of 3.6 micron for ATP and 6.5 micronM for GTP were determined in the presence of 4mM Mg2+. The enzyme is neither stimulated by cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate or cyclic guanosine 3', 5'-monophosphate nor inhibited by the regulatory subunit of rabbit muscle protein kinase. Its activity is stimulated by KCl at concentrations below 0.2 M and inhibited by higher concentrations.     

Method of detection of protein kinase activity in polyacrylamide gel using two-dimensional protein separating system

Method for detection of protein kinase activity in polyacrylamide gel have been developed. After separation of proteins by isoelectric focusing in non-denaturing condition, gel was incubated in a reaction buffer containing [gamma-32P]ATP. 32P-labeled proteins were separated by subsequent SDS/PAGE electrophoresis in second dimension. The proposed method was used for detection of protein kinase activity in human blood serum and triton X-100 soluble proteins of heads of Drosophila melanogaster.     

A comparison of ribosomal proteins from rabbit reticulocytes phosphorylated in situ and in vitro.

A comparison has been made between the ribosomal proteins phosphorylated in intact cells and proteins isolated from ribosomal subunits after modification in vitro by purified protein kinases and [gamma-32P]ATP. When intact reticulocytes were incubated for 2 h in a nutritional medium containing radioactive inorganic phosphate, one phosphorylated protein was identified as a 40S ribosomal component using two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by electrophoresis in a third step containing sodium dodecyl sulfate. This protein, containing 99% of the total radioactivity associated with ribosomal proteins as observed by two-dimensional electrophoresis, is found in a nonphosphorylated form in addition to several phosphorylated states. These states differ by the number of phosphoryl group attached to the protein. The same 40S protein is modified in vitro by the three cAMP-regulated protein kinases from rabbit reticulocytes. Two additional proteins associated with the 40S subunit are phosphorylated in situ. These proteins migrate as a symmetrical doublet, and contain less than 1% of the radioactive phosphate in the 40S subunit. A number of phosphorylated proteins associated with 60S subunits are observed by disc gel electrophoresis after incubation of whole cells with labeled phosphate. These proteins do not migrate with previously identified ribosomal proteins and are not present in sufficient amounts to be identified as ribosomal structural proteins. Proteins in the large subunit are modified in vitro by cAMP-regulated protein kinases and ATP, and these modified proteins migrate with known ribosomal proteins. However, this phosphorylation has not been shown to occur in intact cells.     

Solid-phase tyrosine-specific protein kinase assay in multiwell substrate-immobilized polyacrylamide gel

Since tyrosine-specific protein kinase (TPK) is much less abundant than Ser/Thr-specific kinases in cells, determination of TPK activity in crude cell extracts or column chromatography eluates has been difficult. This is compounded by the absence of a rapid, economical method for the separation of high endogenous protein phosphorylation background from exogenously added tyrosine-containing substrates. We have developed a new solid-phase assay, which provides high sensitivity and efficiency at a low cost for assaying the TPK activity of crude enzyme preparations. This assay utilizes immobilized tyrosine-containing synthetic polymers such as (Glu:Tyr, 4:1)n in polyacrylamide gels. The kinase reaction is started by adding crude enzyme solutions and [tau-32P]ATP-metal ion mixtures into microtiter-size wells made in the gels. After the phosphorylation reaction, the reaction mixtures are removed and the gels are prewashed in water followed by electrophoresis to completely remove free radioactive ATP. 32P incorporation into the immobilized TPK-specific substrate can be detected by autoradiography and quantitated by cutting the gel pieces and counting them with a liquid scintillation counter. The simple, rapid method should facilitate screening of TPK inhibitors and activators as well as examining the substrate specificity of TPKs. Other enzymes, including Ser/Thr-specific protein kinases, can also be analyzed by this technique.     

Inhibition of alpha-aminoisobutyric acid transport in membrane vesicles from mouse fibroblasts after phosphorylation by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.

Cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinases from several mammalian sources inhibit Na+-dependent alpha-aminoisobutyric acid transport by membrane vesicles isolated from 3T3 cells. Evidence is provided that phosphorylation of membrane proteins by the enzyme is responsible for the inhibition. Lysis of the vesicles, or a reduction in the intravesicular volume is not the cause of reduced transport. The cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase and its catalytic subunit phosphorylate a number of membrane proteins. Most of these proteins are phosphorylated, but to a lesser extent in the absence of protein kinase or cyclic AMP. The phosphorylated proteins remain associated with the membranes during hypotonic lysis treatments, which would be expected to release intravesicular contents and loosely associated membrane proteins. 32P-labeled bands detected on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels after phosphorylation of membranes by the catalytic subunit of the cyclic AMP-dependent kinase are eliminated by treatment with either pronase or 1 N NaOH, but not by ribonuclease nor by phospholipase C. The stability of the incorporated radioactivity to hot acid and hydroxylamine relative to hot base suggests that most of the 32P from [gamma-32P]ATP is incorporated into protein phosphomonoester linkages.     

Differential kinase systems are involved in the rapidly turning over phosphorylation of prominent nuclear proteins

The activity of endogenous nuclear protein kinases has been probed in an vitro assay system of isolated nuclei from Chironomus salivary gland cells. The phosphorylation of a set of seven prominent rapidly phosphorylated non-histone proteins and of histones H3, H2A and H4 was analyzed using ATP or GTP as phosphoryl donor and heparin as protein kinase effector. The core histones H2A and H3 both incorporate 32P from [gamma-32P]ATP as well as from [gamma-32P]GTP but their phosphorylation is differentially affected by heparin. The phosphorylation of H2A is blocked by heparin while that of H3 is even stimulated in the presence of heparin when ATP is used as phosphate donor. H4 is unable to incorporate phosphate groups from GTP but its ATP-based phosphorylation is heparin sensitive. Of the non-histone protein kinase substrates, we could only detect two, the 44-kDa and 115-kDa proteins, which are heparin sensitive with either ATP or GTP and, thus, strictly meet the criteria for casein kinase type II-specific phosphorylation. The investigated histones and non-histone proteins can be grouped into three broad categories on the basis of their phosphorylation properties. (A) Proteins very likely affected by casein kinase NII. (B) Proteins phosphorylated by strictly ATP-specific protein kinases. (C) Proteins phosphorylated by ATP as well as GTP utilizing protein kinase(s) other than casein NII. Category B proteins can be subdivided into proteins phosphorylated in a heparin-resistant (B1) and heparin-sensitive (B2) manner. The phosphorylation of category C proteins may be heparin sensitive with ATP only (C1), heparin sensitive with GTP only (C2), heparin insensitive with both ATP and GTP (C3) or stimulated by heparin (C4).     

Purification and properties of cAMP-independent nuclear protein kinase from Dictyostelium discoideum

A cyclic-AMP-independent nuclear protein kinase has been purified from Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae. The purification procedure involves chromatography of DEAE-Sephadex, phosphocellulose and heparin-Sepharose. The purified enzyme phosphorylates threonine and serine of acidic proteins as casein and phosvitin. Phosphorylation of casein is stimulated by spermine. The kinase requires Mg2+ and can utilize both ATP and GTP as phosphoryl donors. Heparin is a potent inhibitor of the enzyme, being the protein kinase activity fully inhibited at concentrations of 0.5 micrograms/ml. One polypeptide of molecular mass 38 kDa was the major protein band present in the purified kinase preparation as estimated by NaDodSO4 denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. This band belongs to the protein kinase because it is the only one that is observed associated with the protein kinase activity when the enzyme preparation is centrifuged in glycerol gradients. The 38-kDa polypeptide is also the major product of autophosphorylation of the enzyme preparation. The enzymatic properties allow to classify the enzyme as a type-II casein kinase. However, its structural properties are different from the mammalian type-II casein kinases and make the D. discoideum enzyme more similar to the plants type-II casein kinases.     

Site-specific phosphorylation of beta-casein by proetin kinases from rabbit reticulocytes

The B variant of beta-casein was phosphorylated with [gamma-32P]ATP using four different protein kinases isolated from rabbit reticulocytes. Casein was maximally phosphorylated by the individual protein kinase activities and subjected to chymotrptic digestion. The peptides were separated by a two-dimensional peptide fingerprinting technique, and the phosphorylated peptides were identified by autoradiography, The two phosphorylated peptides obtained from the action of casein kinase I were shown to have different migration patterns from those obtained with casein kinase II. The cAMP-regulated protein kinases had the same substrate specificity with beta-casein B, and the two phosphorylated peptides obtained using these enzymes were distinct from those phosphorylated by the cAMP-independent enzymes. Thus, the different protein kinases can be identified by substrate specificity using beta-casein.     

Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of human platelet surface proteins by an ecto-protein kinase/phosphatase system.

We have characterized a novel ecto-protein kinase activity and a novel ecto-protein phosphatase activity on the membrane surface of human platelets. Washed intact platelets, when incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP in Tyrode's buffer, showed the phosphorylation of a membrane surface protein migrating with an apparent molecular mass of 42 kDa on 5-15% SDS polyacrylamide gradient gels. The 42 kDa protein could be further resolved on 15% SDS gels into two proteins of 39 kDa and 42 kDa. In this gel system, it was found that the 39 kDa protein became rapidly phosphorylated and dephosphorylated, whereas the 42 kDa protein was phosphorylated and dephosphorylated at a much slower rate. NaF inhibited the dephosphorylation of these proteins indicating the involvement of an ecto-protein phosphatase. The platelet membrane ecto-protein kinase responsible for the phosphorylation of both of these proteins was identified as a serine kinase and showed dependency on divalent cations Mg2+ or Mn2+ ions. Ca2+ ions potentiated the Mg(2+)-dependent ecto-protein kinase activity. The ecto-protein kinase rapidly phosphorylated histone and casein added exogenously to the extracellular medium of intact platelets. Following activation of platelets by alpha-thrombin, the incorporation of [32P]phosphate from exogenously added [gamma-32P]ATP by endogenous protein substrates was reduced by 90%, suggesting a role of the ecto-protein kinase system in the regulation of platelet function. The results presented here demonstrate that both protein kinase and protein phosphatase activities reside on the membrane surface of human platelets. These activities are capable of rapidly phosphorylating and dephosphorylating specific surface platelet membrane proteins which may play important roles in early events of platelet activation and secretion.     

Phosphorylation of varicella-zoster virus glycoprotein gpI by mammalian casein kinase II and casein kinase I.

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) glycoprotein gpI is the predominant viral glycoprotein within the plasma membranes of infected cells. This viral glycoprotein is phosphorylated on its polypeptide backbone during biosynthesis. In this report, we investigated the protein kinases which participate in the phosphorylation events. Under in vivo conditions, VZV gpI was phosphorylated on its serine and threonine residues by protein kinases present within lysates of either VZV-infected or uninfected cells. Because this activity was diminished by heparin, a known inhibitor of casein kinase II, isolated gpI was incubated with purified casein kinase II and shown to be phosphorylated in an in vitro assay containing [gamma-32P]ATP. The same glycoprotein was phosphorylated when [32P]GTP was substituted for [32P]ATP in the protein kinase assay. We also tested whether VZV gpI was phosphorylated by two other ubiquitous mammalian protein kinases--casein kinase I and cyclic AMP-dependent kinase--and found that only casein kinase I modified gpI. When the predicted 623-amino-acid sequence of gpI was examined, two phosphorylation sites known to be optimal for casein kinase II were observed. Immediately upstream from each of the casein kinase II sites was a potential casein kinase I phosphorylation site. In summary, this study showed that VZV gpI was phosphorylated by each of two mammalian protein kinases (casein kinase I and casein kinase II) and that potential serine-threonine phosphorylation sites for each of these two kinases were present in the viral glycoprotein.     

Resolution of the phosphorylated and dephosphorylated cAMP-binding proteins of bovine cardiac muscle by affinity labeling and two-dimensional electrophoresis.

The photoaffinity label 8-azido[32P]adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (8-azido-cyclic [32P]AMP) was used to analyze both the cAMP-binding component of the purified cAMP-dependent protein kinase, and the cAMP-binding proteins present in crude tissue extracts of bovine cardiac muscle. 8-Azido-cyclic [32P]AMP reacted specifically and in stoichiometric amounts with the cAMP-binding proteins of bovine cardiac muscle. Upon phosphorylation, the purified cAMP-binding protein from bovine cardiac muscle changed its electrophoretic mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels from an apparent molecular weight of 54,000 to an apparent molecular weight of 56,000. In tissue extracts of bovine cardiac muscle, most of the 8-azido-cyclic [32P]AMP was incorporated into a protein band with an apparent molecular weight of 56,000 which shifted to 54,000 upon treatment with a phosphoprotein phosphatase. Thus a substantial amount of the cAMP-binding protein appeared to be in the phosphorylated form. Autoradiograms following sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of both the pure and impure cAMP-binding proteins labeled with 8-azido-cyclic [32P]AMP revealed another binding component with a molecular weight of 52,000 which incorporated 32P from [gamma-32P]ATP without changing its electrophoretic mobility. Limited proteolysis of the 56,000- and 52,000-dalton proteins labeled with 32P from either [gamma-32P]ATP.Mg2+ or 8-azido-cyclic [32P]AMP showed patterns indicating homology. On the other hand, peptide maps of the major 8-azido-cyclic [32P]AMP-labeled proteins from tissue extracts of bovine cardiac muscle (Mr = 56,000) and rabbit skeletal muscle (Mr = 48,000) displayed completely different patterns as expected for the cAMP-binding components of types II and I protein kinases. Both phospho- and dephospho-cAMP-binding components from the purified bovine cardiac muscle protein kinase were also resolved by isoelectric focusing on polyacrylamide slab gels containing 8 M urea. The phosphorylated forms labeled with 32P from either [gamma-32P]ATP or 8-azido-cyclic [32P]AMP migrated as a doublet with a pI of 5.35. The 8-azido-cyclic [32P]AMP-labeled dephosphorylated form also migrated as a doublet with a pI of 5.40. The phosphorylated and dephosphorylated cAMP-binding proteins migrated with molecular weights of 56,000 and 54,000, respectively, following a second dimension electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate. The lower molecular weight cAMP-binding component (Mr = 52,000) was also apparent in these gels. Similar experiments with the cAMP-binding proteins present in tissue extracts of bovine cardiac muscle indicate that they are predominantly in the phosphorylated form.     

Clathrin-coated vesicles contain two protein kinase activities. Phosphorylation of clathrin beta-light chain by casein kinase II

Incubation of clathrin-coated vesicles with Mg2+-[gamma-32P]ATP results in the autophosphorylation of a 50-kDa polypeptide (pp50) (Pauloin, A., Bernier, I., and Jollès, P. (1982) Nature 298, 574-576). We describe here a second protein kinase that is associated with calf brain and liver coated vesicles. This kinase, which phosphorylates casein and phosvitin but not histone and protamine using either ATP or GTP, co-fractionates with coated vesicles as assayed by gel filtration, electrophoresis, and sedimentation. The enzyme can be extracted with 0.5 M Tris-HCl or 1 M NaCl, and can be separated from the pp50 kinase as well as the other major coat proteins. We identified this enzyme as casein kinase II based on physical and catalytic properties and by comparative studies with casein kinase II isolated from brain cytosol. It has a Stokes radius of 4.5 nm, a catalytic moiety of approximately 45 kDa, and labels a polypeptide of 26 kDa when the pure enzyme is assayed for autophosphorylation. Its activity is inhibited by heparin and not affected by cAMP, phospholipids, or calmodulin. This protein kinase preferentially phosphorylates clathrin beta-light chain. The phosphorylation is markedly stimulated by polylysine and inhibited by heparin. Isolated beta-light chain as well as beta-light chain in triskelions or in intact coated vesicles is phosphorylated. All of the phosphate (0.86 mol of Pi/mol of clathrin beta-light chain) is incorporated into phosphoserine.