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[Extraction and purification of tissue phosphopeptides].

We describe a method of extraction and partial purification of phosphopeptides isolated from pig brain or from the electrical organ of Torpedo marmorata. The extraction of the phosphopeptides was achieved by alcoholic 0,04 N potassium hydroxyde solution or by 10(-1) M KCL containing 10(-3) M EDTA and 10(-4) M DTT. After having tried various fractionation methods like ion exchange chromatography or gel filtration we chose chromatography on DEAE Sephadex followed by purification of the isolated fractions by Sephadex G 25 filtration. The most important phosphate fractions (one was purified to about 90 per cent) were characterized by the determination of the N/P ratio which was different from one phosphopeptide to another. The amino acid composition showed a high glycin, serine and "acid" amino acid content. The presence of phosphoserine was shown by electrophoresis and chromatography of a partial hydrolysate of in vivo 32P labelled phosphopeptides isolated from rat liver. The polyanionic structure of these phosphopeptides allow them to act as real ion exchangers which might be involved during active transport mechanisms in cellular membranes.

Amino Acids

[Participation of phosphopeptides in oxidative amino acid exchange in brain tissue].

Specific proteins and phosphopeptides of nervous tissue soluble in acidified organic solvents have been shown to have an active participation in the metabolism of ammonia. Nitrogen phosphopeptides (amides) bound to phosphate residues which are non stable in acids. It was shown that acid-labil nitrogen (amide group) of phosphopeptides, bound to phosphate risidue, participates in the metabolism of ammonia formed during the oxidative deamination of amino acids. The data obtained indicate that 3'--5'-AMP dependent proteinkinase participates in the phosphorilation of phosphopeptides.

Amino Acids

Phosphopeptides of enamel matrix.

Although the tripeptides Glu-O-Phosphoserine-Tyr and Glu-O-Phosphoserine-Leu have been identified in embryonic bovine enamel proteins, 1, 2 the issue of whether both sequences occur in each of the phosphopeptides, or whether certain sequences occur in specific peptides only, has recently been resolved by isolating homogeneous samples of E33 and E44. All three of the Ser residues of both peptides are phosphorylated. All three in E3 are in the sequence Glu-O-Phosphoserine-Leu, and all three in E4 are in the sequence Glu-O-Phosphoserine-Tyr. It was not possible to sequence either of the polypeptide chains directly by automatic peptide sequencing. However, a partial sequence of E4 was constructed from data derived from peptides isolated after cyanogen bromide, trypsin and chymotrypsin digestions. The presence of Glu, Tyr and Leu adjacent to and near the O-Phosphoserine [Ser(L)] residues and the 2 degrees, 3 degrees and higher ordered structures of the enamel phosphopeptides may be important in calcium binding and mineralization.

Amino Acid Sequence

Effects of epinephrine and insulin on phosphopeptide metabolism in adipocytes.

Isolated adipocytes, incubated in the presence of extracellular 32Pi to steady state 32P incorporation into cellular phosphopeptides, were exposed to hormones for 5 min. Epinephrine (10(-6) M) stimulated 32P incorporation into at least 12 major phosphopeptides, distributed in the cytoplasm, endoplasmic reticulum, and plasma membrane. Quantitatively pre-eminent among these were peptides of molecular weight 123,000 and 69,000, each located both in the cytoplasm and endoplasmic reticulum. The effect of epinephrine (10(-7) M) on 32P incorporation into these two peptides was augmented by theophylline (10(-3) M) in a synergistic fashion. Norepinephrine, dibutyryl N6,O2'-dibutyryl adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) (synthetic 1 to 24 fragment), and glucagon mimicked the effect of epinephrine. Insulin modified adipocyte peptide phosphorylation in two ways. When present as the sole hormone, insulin (100 microunits/ml) consistently and selectively stimulated the 32P incorporation into a peptide of molecular weight 123,000 (endoplasmic reticulum, cytoplasm) without significant alteration in the 32P content of any other major peptide. A second effect of insulin was evident when epinephrine (10(-6) M) was present simultaneously. Insulin significantly inhibited the epinephrine-stimulated phosphorylation of the molecular weight 69,000 (endoplasmic reticulum, cytoplasm) and 26,000 (plasma membrane) peptides. Nevertheless, persistence of insulin-stimulated phosphorylation of the 123,000 peptide in the presence of epinephrine was shown by a 32P content of this peptide that was greater in the presence of both hormones than with either individually. These findings indicate that in intact adipocytes: (a) epinephrine acutely alters the phosphorylation of a large number of adipocyte peptides, partly at least, via activation of adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP)-dependent protein kinase; (b) insulin opposes several epinephrine-stimulated phosphorylations in a manner consitent with its ability to lower epinephrine-stimulated intracellular cyclic AMP accumulation in adipocytes; and (c) insulin, in addition, exerts a unique stimulatory effect on adipocyte peptide phosphorylation that is independent of its effects on cyclic AMP metabolism and may be medicated by the generation of an as yet undefined intracellular "messenger" unique to insulin.

Adipose Tissue

A study of the enzymic dephosphorylation of beta-casein and a derived phosphopeptide.

beta-Casein, and the phosphate containing peptide derived from it by tryptic digestion, have been dephosphorylated by the action of two phosphatases. Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1) has been shown to remove the phosphates from these substrates in two distinct stages. Substrate molecules retaining three of the original phosphoseryl residues accumulate during the reaction and are resistant to further dephosphorylation at low enzyme concentrations. In contrast bovine spleen phosphoprotein phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.16) achieves complete dephosphorylation of these substrates sequentially without any of the intervening species showing resistance to the action of the enzyme. The phosphopeptide has been partially dephosphorylated by the action of the two phosphatases and the resultant peptides containing three phosphoseryl residues compared in their reactivity toward the E. coli alkaline phosphatase. The results obtained are discussed in relation to the mode of action of the two enzymes.

Alkaline Phosphatase

RNA tumor virus phosphoproteins: primary structural analysis and identification of phosphopeptides.

Two-dimensional tryptic peptide mapping was used to compare the peptide sequences of the phosphoprotein (pp12) of cloned ecotropic and amphotropic wild mouse leukemia viruses, strains 1504 and 292. The maps of two ecotropic isolates were very similar to one another, as were the maps of two amphotropic isolates. There was also extensive similarity between the maps of this protein from ecotropic and amphotropic viruses, although characteristic peptide differences were readily recognized. These differences were consistent with the general type specificity of oncovirus phosphoproteins. The pp12 of the field isoalte of 292 virus contained five phosphopeptides, and the non-phosphorylated and variously phosphorylated species of this pp12 showed identical peptide maps, indicating differential phosphorylation of a single polypeptide.

Base Sequence

Phosphopeptides and gamma-carboxyglutamic acid-containing peptides in calcified turkey tendon: their absence in uncalcified tendon.

Uncalcified samples of turkey tendon obtained prior to calcification, and other samples from areas of tendon that never calcify, contain little or no O-phosphoserine [Ser(P)], O-phosphothreonine [Thr(P)] and gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (Gla). Significant amounts of all three of these Ca2+-binding amino acids, which are found in EDTA-extractable, non-collagenous proteins, are detected coincident with the onset of mineralization of a tendon and increase in concentration as mineralization proceeds.

1-Carboxyglutamic Acid

A kinetic analysis of the dephosphorylation, by bovine spleen phosphoprotein phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.16) of a phosphopeptide derived from beta-casein.

A peptide containing the four closely grouped phosphoseryl residues present in beta-casein has been enzymatically dephosphorylated with bovine spleen phosphoprotein phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.16). The course of the dephosphorylation reaction has been followed by cellulose acetate electrophoresis and the amount of partially phosphorylated peptides present at each stage quantified by the same method. The phosphate groups are shown to be removed in a sequential manner and the rate constants for each stage of the dephosphorylation have been computed from the data obtained. The rate constants indicate that interaction in the intact peptide results in an enhancement of the activity of the phosphoseryl cluster.

Caseins

Proteolytic fragmentation of spectrin:effect of removal of terminal phosphopeptides on spectrin binding to human erythrocyte membranes.

The involvement of phosphorylated regions of spectrin, from human erythrocytes, in membrane binding has been investigated. Spectrin is phosphorylated at several sites, all near a terminal of the band 2 polypeptide. This region can be removed from the bulk of the molecule by brief trypsinization. Membrane binding of the bulk of the protein is unaffected by brief proteolysis, whereas phosphofragments generated by this treatment exhibit no membrane binding.

Binding Sites

Identification of phosphopeptides and gamma-carboxyglutamic acid-containing peptides in epiphyseal growth plate cartilage.

Uncalcified cartilage from the epiphyseal portion of bovine scapulae, both distant and adjacent to the epiphyseal growth plate, and the calcified cartilage of the epiphyseal growth plate itself were analyzed for the presence of O-phosphoserine [Ser(P)], O-phosphothreonine [Thr(P)] and gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (G1a). Only trace amounts of these Ca2+-binding amino acids or the peptides containing them were found in the unmineralized tissues. In contrast, whole calcified cartilage, and especially the most mineralized fraction obtained by density centrifugation, contained considerable amounts of all three amino acids. Essentially all of the G1a and the majority of the Ser(P) and Thr(P) were present in non-collagenous, non-diffusible proteins extractable in EDTA at near-neutral pH.

1-Carboxyglutamic Acid

The hormonal control of activity of skeletal muscle phosphorylase kinase. Amino-acid sequences at the two sites of action of adenosine-3':5'-monophosphate-dependent protein kinase.

Two tryptic phosphopeptides containing the sites on the alpha and beta subunits of phosphorylase kinase which are phosphorylated by protein kinase, dependent on adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP), have been isolated and their amino acid sequences have been determined. 32P-labelled phosphorylase kinase, containing 1.9 mol phosphate per mol enzyme, was digested with an equimolar quantity of trypsin for 2.5 min at pH 7.0, 20 degrees C. This treatment released nearly all the 32P radioactivity associated with the beta subunit as trichloroacetic-acid-soluble material. Only a small proportion of the 32P radioactivity associated with the alpha subunit was solubilised, the remainder being removed in the trichloroacetic acid pellet. The beta-subunit tryptic phosphopeptide was completely resolved from traces of the alpha-subunit phosphopeptide by gel filtration on Sephadex G-25. Further purification by peptide mapping separated the phosphopeptide into four components, each derived from the same nine-amino-acid segment of the betachain, which was found to possess the sequence: Gln-Ser-Gly-Ser(P)-Val-Ile-Tyr-Pro-Leu-Lys. The four components were produced by the partial cyclisation of the N-terminal glutaminyl residue, and by the presence of two alleles for the beta subunit in the rabbit population, which led to a valine-isoleucine ambiguity. The alpha-subunit phosphopeptide was liberated from the trichloroacetic acid pellet by redigestion with trypsin. It was the largest component in the digest which remained soluble in 5% trichloroacetic acid, and obtained in a highly purified form by a single filtration on Sephadex G-50. The peptide comprised 39 amino acids of which nine were serine and three were threonine residues. Only one residue, the serine at position three from the amino terminus, was phosphorylated. The amino-terminal sequence of the peptide was shown to be: Arg-Leu-Ser(P)-Ile-Ser-Thr-Glu-Ser-Glx-Pro-Asx-Gly. The sequences confirm the stoichiometry of the reaction and the absolute specificity of cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase for just two of the 200 serine residues in the enzyme. These results and an inspection of the rate of phosphorylation of a number of skeletal muscle proteins, including each enzyme of the glycolytic pathway, lead to the conclusion that cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase is an extremely specific enzyme. The molecular basis of this specificity is discussed.

Adenosine Triphosphate

Peptide analysis of the transformation-specific antigen from avian sarcoma virus-transformed cells.

Sera from rabbits bearing tumors induced by avian sarcoma virus (ASV) were ussed to immunopecipitate virus-specific proteins from extracts of chicken, hamster, and field vole cells transformed by ASV. Two virus-specific proteins having molecular weights of 76,000 and 60,000 were found in all cell lines examined. The 76,000-molecular-weight protein, Pr76, is the precursor to the internal core proteins of ASV. The 60,000-molecular-weight (60K) transformation-specific antigen from each cell line was subjected to peptide analysis, using chymotrypsin and Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease. The resulting peptide maps of the 60K protein from the different ASV-infected cell types were similar for each enzyme, strongly suggesting that the 60K protein is virus coded. Two-dimensional analysis of chymotryptic peptides from Pr76 and 60K reveals that 60K is not related to the gs antigen precursor. Radiolabeling of ASV-transformed cells with inorganic phosphate revealed that 60K is phosphorylated in vivo. The 60K proteins isolated from both ASV-transformed chicken and field vole cells were found to contain one tryptic phosphopeptide. The tryptic phosphopeptides of 60K from both cell lines migrated identically upon two-dimensional peptide analyses, and their migration differed from that of the principal phosphopeptide of Pr76.

Alpharetrovirus