Phosphorylation and Dephosphorylation in the Proline‐Rich C‐Terminal Domain of Microtubule‐Associated Protein 2
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- 1 November 1996
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 241 (3) , 765-771
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00765.x
Abstract
The C-terminal domain of microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) contains a proline-rich region and the tubulin-binding domain. We have generated antibodies to follow the phosphorylation state of the proline-rich domain. One of these antibodies (no. 305) has been raised against a synthetic peptide P (sequence RTPGTPGTPSY) phosphorylated at the threonine residues. This sequence is present in the proline-rich region of MAP2 and is phosphorylated in vitro by at least three different proline-directed protein kinases: p42mpk, p34cdc2, and GSK3 (glycogen-synthase kinase 3) α/β The MAP2 sites phosphorylated by these kinases are different, although all of them phosphorylate the C-terminal domain of MAP2 as determined by Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease mapping. Nonphosphorylated peptide P can be phosphorylated in vitro by all three kinases studied with similar efficiency. In high-molecular-mass MAP2, this sequence is highly phosphorylated in vivo at the late stages of rat development. This motif can be rapidly dephosphorylated in vitro by protein-phosphatase 1 (PP1) and 2A (PP2A) catalytic subunits but not by PP2B.Keywords
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