Characterization of the phosphorylation of rat mammary ATP‐citrate lyase and acetyl‐CoA carboxylase by Ca2+ and calmodulin‐dependent multiprotein kinase and Ca2+ and phospholipid‐dependent protein kinase

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1 ATP-citrate lyase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase purified from lactating rat mammary gland are phosphorylated stoichiometrically by the calmodulin-dependent multiprotein kinase from rabbit skeletal muscle. The reactions are completely dependent on the presence of both Ca2+ and calmodulin. 2 ATP-citrate lyase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase are also phosphorylated stoichiometrically by the Ca2+-and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C) purified from bovine brain. Phosphorylation of these substrates is stimulated 6-fold and 40-fold respectively by Ca2+ and phosphatidylserine. 3 The calmodulin-dependent and phospholipid-dependent protein kinases phosphorylate the same serine residue on ATP-citrate lyase that is phosphorylated by cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase. The sequence of the tryptic peptide containing this site on the mammary enzyme is identical with the sequence of the peptide containing the site on ATP-citrate lyase that is phosphorylated in isolated hepatocytes in response to insulin and/or glucagon. 4 The calmodulin-dependent, phospholipid-dependent and cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinases phosphorylate distinct sites on acetyl-CoA carboxylase. However, one of the three phosphorylated tryptic peptides derived from enzyme treated with the phospholipid-dependent kinase is identical with the major phosphopeptide (T1) derived from enzyme treated with cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase. 5 Phosphorylation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase by the phospholipid-dependent protein kinase inactivates acetyl-CoA carboxylase in a similar manner to cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase. With either protein kinase slightly greater phosphorylation and inactivation is seen after pretreatment of acetyl-CoA carboxylase with protein phosphatase-2A, but the effects of the protein phosphatase treatment are not completely reversed. Inactivation by the phospholipid-dependent protein kinase is Ca2+-and phospholipid-dependent, is reversed by protein phosphatase-2A, and correlates with the degree of phosphorylation. 6 The relevance of these findings to insulin- and growth-factor-promoted phosphorylation of ATP-citrate lyase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase in intact cells is discussed.

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