Phosphorylation of neurofilament proteins by protein kinase C |
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Authors: | R K Sihag A Y Jeng R A Nixon |
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Affiliation: | Ralph Lowell Laboratories, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02178. |
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Abstract: | The low molecular mass (70 kDa) subunit of neurofilaments (NF-L) contains at least three phosphorylation sites in vivo and is phosphorylated by multiple kinases in a site-specific manner [(1987) J. Neurochem. 48, S101; Sihag, R.K. and Nixon, R.A. submitted]. In this study, we observed that the three subunits of neurofilament proteins from retinal ganglion cell neurons are substrates for purified mouse brain protein kinase C. Two-dimensional alpha-chymotryptic phosphopeptide map analyses of the NF-L subunit demonstrated that protein kinase C phosphorylates four polypeptide sites, two of which incorporate phosphate when retinal ganglion cells are pulse-radiolabeled with [32P]orthophosphate in vivo. |
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