Phosphoprotein F1: purification and characterization of a brain kinase C substrate related to plasticity
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- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Society for Neuroscience in Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 6 (12) , 3618-3627
- https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.06-12-03618.1986
Abstract
To study the role of protein kinase C (PKC) and its substrates in neuronal function, we have investigated the in vitro endogenous phosphorylation of the neuronal phosphoprotein F1 after induction of synaptic plasticity by long-term potentiation (LTP). The protein F1 phosphorylation was found to increase 5 min (Routtenberg et al., 1985), 1 hr (Lovinger et al., 1986) and 3 d (Lovinger et al., 1985) after LTP. The characteristics of this protein bear close similarities to a number of proteins characterized in various neuronal systems, such as B50 (brain specific, synaptosome-enriched protein), pp46 (a growth cone protein), and GAP 43 (nerve growth and regeneration-associated protein). A positive identification of the purified protein F1 with these proteins would link protein F1 to the developmental growth of axons, nerve regeneration, and polyphosphoinositide metabolism, as well as adult plasticity. We have therefore purified and partially characterized native protein F1 so that a meaningful comparison among the properties of these proteins can be made. Using synaptosomal plasma membrane (P2′) as starting material, subsequent purification involved pH extraction, 40–80% ammonium sulfate precipitation, hydroxylapatite, and phenyl-Sepharose column chromatography. This procedure achieved greater than 800-fold purification and about 45% yield relative to P2′. Purified protein F1 (Mr = 47,000, pI = 4.5) was found to be a hydrophilic molecule and was phosphorylated by 1000-fold purified PKC in the presence of phosphatidylserine (PS) and Ca2+. The Ka of PS activation is about 15 micrograms/ml (approximately 20 microM), and that of Ca2+ is about 25 microM. Diolein and DiC:8 (a synthetic diacylglycerol) lowered the requirement of Ca2+ for maximal stimulation from 100 to 5 microM. Ca2+-calmodulin kinases type I and II did not phosphorylate protein F1. The phosphoamino acid analysis showed that 97% of the total incorporated 32P-phosphate was on the serine residue. Phosphopeptide mapping using V8-protease generated 2 phospho-fragments having apparent Mr of 13,000 and 11,000. Calmodulin at 3.6 microM inhibited 95% of protein F1 phosphorylation by PKC. The availability of purified native protein F1 should facilitate investigation of the physiological role of this protein in the nervous system and its functional regulation by PKC.This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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