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F Lipmann

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PubMed1987

Studies of the decrease of tyrosine-O-sulphated proteins in Rous sarcoma-virus-transformed rat embryo fibroblasts, line 3Y1. Examination of the sulphate activation and tyrosyl-protein sulphotransferase systems.

The sulphate activation and tyrosyl-protein sulphotransferase systems in normal 3Y1 rat embryo fibroblasts and the same cells transformed by Schmidt Ruppin subgroup-A-Rous sarcoma virus (SRA-3Y1) were examined. Employing metabolic [35S]sulphate-labelling followed by PEI (polyethyleneimine)-cellulose thin-layer chromatography of the labelled cell lysates, it was found that the steady-state level of 'active' sulphate, adenosine 3'-phosphate 5'-phosphosulphate, was drastically lower in SRA-3Y1 cells compared with their normal counterparts. When the sulphate activating enzymes were tested, it appeared that the activities in 3Y1 homogenates were 2-2.5 times greater than those in SRA-3Y1 homogenates. An endogenous sulphation assay for tyrosyl-protein sulphotransferase revealed that activities in 3Y1 and SRA-3Y1 homogenates were comparable. Nearly identical patterns were observed with both sets of cells when [35S]sulphated proteins generated in the endogenous assay were separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. It therefore seems that the tyrosyl-protein sulphotransferase(s) are unimpaired in SRA-3Y1 cells. While the lower (approx. 8 times) sulphate uptake remains the major cause for the decrease of tyrosine-O-sulphated proteins in SRA-3Y1 cells [Liu & Lipmann, (1984) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81, 3695-3698], the 2-2.5-fold lower sulphate activating enzyme activities also contribute to some extent to the difference between the SRA-3Y1 and 3Y1 cells.

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PubMed1987

Rapid catabolism of tyrosine-O-sulphated proteins and the formation of free tyrosine O-sulphate as an end product in rat embryo fibroblasts.

Rat embryo fibroblasts, line 3Y1, were prelabelled for 24 h with [35S]sulphate and incubated in fresh medium without [35S]sulphate. A rapid efflux of the overall 35S-labelled compounds from the cells into the medium was observed. After 9 h of incubation, about 50% of the total 35S radioactivity appeared in the medium and up to 84.3% did so at the end of a 48 h incubation. Determination of [35S]sulphated macromolecules present in both the cell-associated and the incubation-medium fractions at different time points during incubation indicated that the majority of the 35S-labelled compounds released from the cells were low-Mr products derived from digestion of the [35S]sulphated macromolecules. Further analysis for tyrosine-O-[35S]sulphated proteins, which constituted only a small fraction of the overall [35S]sulphated macromolecules, showed that, after 9 h of incubation, there was a 65% decrease in the cell-associated fraction, and only 16.4% remained after 48 h. During that time, an amount equivalent to 20.7% of the cell-associated tyrosine-O-[35S]sulphated proteins originally present was released into the medium. Free tyrosine O-[35S]sulphate was generated in the cells and excreted into the incubation medium. Its rate of increase with time, however, was slow, and could account for only 12.4% of the tyrosine-O-[35S]sulphated proteins catabolized at the end of the 48 h incubation.

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PubMed1985

Isolation of tyrosine-O-sulfate by Pronase hydrolysis from fibronectin secreted by Fujinami sarcoma virus-infected rat fibroblasts.

In a recent paper, we reported the loss of large amounts of protein-bound tyrosine sulfate after infection of rat fibroblasts by avian sarcoma viruses. The analogy to the reported loss of surface fibronectin on malignant transformation, which contained sulfate of unknown location, called our attention to this compound. In a previous paper, we briefly reported on isolation from the supernatant fraction of rat fibroblasts infected by Fujinami sarcoma virus fibronectin that yielded tyrosine-O-sulfate on Pronase hydrolysis. In this paper, we confirm and enlarge on this observation. Highly purified fibronectin was obtained from the supernatant fraction secreted by Fujinami sarcoma virus infected rat fibroblasts that contained 1.52 residues of sulfated tyrosine per protein molecule after exhaustive Pronase hydrolysis. Assuming some loss during work up, this probably indicates 2 residues of the tyrosine sulfated per fibronectin molecule.

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PubMed1985

Purification of the Rous sarcoma virus src kinase by casein-agarose and tyrosine-agarose affinity chromatography.

A simple and effective purification method for the src kinase, the transforming gene product of Rous sarcoma virus, has been developed by using affinity chromatography on casein-agarose and tyrosine-agarose columns. NaDodSO4/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and silver staining analysis showed that the purified kinase preparation was composed of a predominant polypeptide of 60,000-Da. In most of the preparations, however, three minor proteins (54,000, 52,000, and 15,000 Da) were also detected, and they were partially characterized. As one of the exogenous substrates, calmodulin was found to be phosphorylated on tyrosine by the purified src kinase.

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PubMed1985

Tyrosine sulfation of proteins from the human hepatoma cell line HepG2.

[35S]Sulfate labeling of the human hepatoma cell line HepG2 showed it to contain many sulfated proteins of diverse molecular weight range. The isolation of tyrosine O-sulfate indicated the supernatant fraction to contain a 5- to 7-fold higher level than the cellular fraction at the end of a 24-hr incubation. The proteins in the supernatant fraction were immunoprecipitated and examined for sulfation. Of 15 proteins tested, 7 were found to be sulfated as indicated by [35S]sulfate incorporation into proteins separated by NaDodSO4/PAGE and detected by autoradiography. The 35S-labeled bands were excised from the dried gel and subjected to extensive Pronase hydrolysis and the hydrolysates were analyzed for tyrosine [35S]sulfate by a two-dimensional procedure combining high-voltage electrophoresis and thin-layer chromatography [Liu, M. C. & Lipmann, F. (1984) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81, 3695-3698]. Of the sulfated proteins, three--fibrinogen, alpha-fetoprotein, and fibronectin--were found to contain tyrosine O-sulfate. The simultaneous presence of carbohydrate-bound sulfate, however, could not be exactly determined, but the other four [35S]sulfate-containing proteins--alpha 1-antitrypsin, alpha 1-antichymotrypsin, alpha 2-macroglobulin, and transferrin--did not reveal any tyrosine O-sulfate and might be sulfated on their carbohydrate moieties.

Carcinoma, Hepatocellular↗
PubMed1984

Decrease of tyrosine-O-sulfate-containing proteins found in rat fibroblasts infected with Rous sarcoma virus or Fujinami sarcoma virus.

Our interest was aroused by the recent report by Huttner [ Huttner , W. B. (1982) Nature (London) 299, 273-276] on general sulfation of tyrosine residues of proteins in normal and malignantly transformed tissues. Here we report on the reduction of sulfation in embryonic rat fibroblasts, line 3Y1, infected with Rous sarcoma virus or Fujinami sarcoma virus. In view of the instability of tyrosine O-sulfate in strong acid, the protein sulfation was tested for after incubation with [35S]sulfate and exhaustive Pronase hydrolysis. We found in general a reduction of sulfation in transformed tissue. It was greatest in the fibroblasts permanently transformed with Rous sarcoma virus. When fibroblasts transformed by the temperature-sensitive Fujinami sarcoma virus, line ts225 -3Y1, were used for comparison of sulfation at nonpermissive and permissive temperatures, the latter showed a strong reduction. Furthermore, we tested these cells for the uptake of inorganic [35S]sulfate. Uptake appeared highly reduced in the permanently infected fibroblasts, but ts225 -3Y1 grown at permissive and nonpermissive temperatures exhibited no difference. Uptake at both temperatures was comparable to uptake by normal 3Y1 cells. A recently much investigated cell surface protein, fibronectin, was reported to be lost on malignant transformation and to contain sulfate in an undetermined location. We found that ts225 -3Y1 cells grown at permissive temperature released fibronectin that contained tyrosine O-sulfate.

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PubMed1983

Enzymic synthesis and cofactor activity of 3'-pyrophosphocoenzyme A.

The 3'-pyrophosphate derivative of CoA was synthesized by using the excreted 5'-to-3' pyrophosphoryl-transferring enzyme from Streptomyces adephospholyticus and ATP as donor and dephospho-CoA as acceptor. Cofactor activity of this new coenzyme A derivative was tested with Clostridium kluyveri phosphotransacetylase and hog heart succinic thiokinase. With the phosphotransacetylase, 3'-pyrophospho-CoA was found to be twice as active as CoA whereas dephospho-CoA was inactive. However, succinic thiokinase utilized all three types of CoA equally well. Adenosine 5'-monophosphate 3'-pyrophosphate also was synthesized and used as an analog of adenosine 5'-monophosphate 3'-monophosphate in the dog liver's sulfotransferase-catalyzed sulfate transfer from p-nitrophenyl sulfate to phenol. In contrast to the pyrophospho derivative of coenzyme A, adenosine 5'-monophosphate 3'-pyrophosphate was inactive as a cofactor.

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PubMed1983

Reversal of Rous sarcoma-specific immunoglobulin phosphorylation on tyrosine (ADP as phosphate acceptor) catalyzed by the src gene kinase.

To determine the equilibrium constant of the reaction between ATP and protein-bound tyrosine we used as catalyst the highly purified Rous sarcoma src gene transcript. J. M. Sturtevant had earlier found (personal communication) that free tyrosine O-phosphate, upon hydrolysis with alkaline phosphatase in a calorimeter (37 degrees C, pH 9), yielded a delta H degrees of -2.8 kcal/mol (1 kcal = 4.18 kJ), less than half of that found in ATP hydrolysis. Experience with protein-bound serine phosphate (in phosvitin) had shown it to be energy rich [Rabinowitz, M. & Lipmann, F. (1960) J. Biol. Chem. 235, 1043-1050]. We wondered if the same is true for tyrosine phosphate when it is protein bound. From the equilibrium constant of 2.62 (at pH 6.5 and 5 mM Mg2+), we calculate a delta G degrees' of -9.48 kcal/mol for hydrolysis of protein-bound tyrosine phosphate, assuming an approximate delta G degrees' of -10 kcal/mol for hydrolysis of ATP. The experiments show that protein-bound tyrosine phosphate is energy rich, like serine phosphate in phosvitin.

Adenosine Diphosphate↗
PubMed1982

Purification of a specific reversible tyrosine-O-phosphate phosphatase.

A phosphatase specific for tyrosine-O-phosphate (Tyr-P) was separated from several nonspecific phosphatases present in the third instar larvae of Drosophila melanogaster. The enzyme hydrolyzed L-Tyr-P, with an apparent Km of 0.14 mM, but not D-Tyr-P after being freed from hydrolytic activity toward p-nitrophenyl phosphate, the common phosphatase substrate. Such purified preparations also catalyzed a reversible phosphate transfer reaction from unlabeled Tyr-P to [3H]tyrosine. The transfer activity was L4-14% of the hydrolytic activity, depending on the initial concentration of tyrosine (0.25-4.0 mM). The two activities coincided throughout purification. However, they differed in pH optimum, that of hydrolysis being 6.5-7 and that of phosphate transfer being 7.7.5. The two activities were also differentially inhibited by 1-p-bromotetramisole oxalate in the presence of EDTA and by Mn2+. Addition of Mg2+ did not affect either hydrolysis or phosphate transfer, but 5 mM Zn2+ was 65% inhibitory to both. Sodium fluoride strongly inhibited both reactions, and this inhibition was reversed by EDTA, while EDTA itself had no effect. Pi had no effect and no detectable incorporation of 32Pi into Tyr-P was observed, indicating that the phosphate transfer reaction is not a simple reversal of hydrolysis. No ATP-linked phosphorylation of tyrosine was found.

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PubMed1982

Reaction mechanism of mRNA guanylyltransferase from rat liver: isolation and characterization of a guanylyl-enzyme intermediate.

Rat liver RNA guanylyltransferase catalyzes a GTP-PPi exchange reaction in the absence of acceptor RNA [Mizumoto, K. & Lipmann, F. (1979) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, 4961-4965] suggesting that the reaction proceeds through the formation of a covalent guanylylated intermediate. We now present more direct evidence for the existence of the enzyme-GMP intermediate: (i) the enzyme-[32P]GMP intermediate was formed on incubation of rat liver guanylyltransferase with [alpha-32P]GTP and migrated as a single radioactive band with Mr 69,000 on NaDodSO4/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and (ii) the intermediate isolated on gel filtration can transfer its GMP moiety to ppGpCpC-poly(A2,U2,G) to form the capped RNA molecule or it can react with PPi to regenerate GTP. The formation of the intermediate was dependent on Mg2+ and was strongly inhibited by PPi. The addition of pyrophosphatase markedly increased the amount of the intermediate complex. On blue dextran-Sepharose affinity column chromatography, the activity of guanylyltransferase to form an enzyme-[32P]GMP intermediate comigrated with activities of cap formation and GTP-PPi exchange. A phosphoamide type linkage between GMP and enzyme is suggested by its acidlabile and alkali-stable nature and also by the susceptibility to acidic hydroxylamine. These results indicate that the reaction catalyzed by rat liver guanylyltransferase occurs through the following two partial steps: (i) E + GTP in equilibrium E-pG + PPi; and (ii) E-pG + ppN .....leads to GpppN .....+ E.

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PubMed1981

Transport of D-glucose by membrane vesicles from normal and avian sarcoma virus-transformed chicken embryo fibroblasts.

Transport of D-glucose was examined in membrane vesicles from normal and avian sarcoma virus (ASV)-transformed chicken embryo fibroblasts. The initial rates of D-glucose transport were found to be 3- to 5-fold higher for vesicles from glucose-starved normal cells and ASV-transformed cells when compared with transport rates for vesicles from normal cells and serum-starved normal cells. Cytochalasin B, phloretin, and diethylstilbestrol inhibited the initial rate of transport in all types of vesicles, and 2-deoxyglucose, 3-O-methylglucose, and galactose were competitive inhibitors. At D-glucose concentrations between 0.25 and 5 mM, vesicles from normal and ASV-transformed cells displayed saturation kinetics with a Km value of 5 mM for both types of vesicles, with transformed cell vesicles showing a 3-fold increase in Vmax compared with normal cell vesicles. At D-glucose concentrations between 5 and 25 mM the initial rate of D-glucose transport was proportional to D-glucose concentration. The vesicles also showed an inhibitor-sensitive efflux at rates similar to those observed for influx.

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