PMID- 10428477 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19990816 LR - 20190621 IS - 0014-5793 (Print) IS - 0014-5793 (Linking) VI - 455 IP - 1-2 DP - 1999 Jul 16 TI - Casein kinase II is responsible for phosphorylation of NF-L at Ser-473. PG - 83-6 AB - Ser-473 is solely phosphorylated in vivo in the tail region of neurofilament L (NF-L). With peptides including the native phosphorylation site, it was not possible to locate responsible kinases. We therefore adopted full-length dephosphorylated NF-L as the substrate, and employed MALDI/TOF (matrix-assisted laser desorption and ionization/time of flight) mass spectrometry and a site-specific phosphorylation-dependent antibody recognizing Ser-473 phosphorylation. The antibody showed that casein kinase I (CK I) as well as casein kinase II (CK II) phosphorylated Ser-473 in vitro, while neither GSK-3beta nor calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II did so. However, the mass spectra of the tail fragments of the phosphorylated NF-L indicated that CK II was the kinase mediating Ser-473 phosphorylation in vitro as opposed to CK I, because CK I phosphorylated another site as well as Ser-473 in vitro. The antibody also demonstrated that NF-L phosphorylated at Ser-473 was abundant in the neuronal perikarya of the rat cortex, indicating that phosphorylation of Ser-473 may take place there. This result may support the suggestion that CK II is the kinase responsible for Ser-473 phosphorylation. Despite many reports showing that CK I mediates phosphorylation of neurofilaments, CK II may phosphorylate NF-L in vivo. FAU - Nakamura, Y AU - Nakamura Y AD - Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita-shi, Japan. nakamura@psy.med.osaka-u.ac.jp FAU - Hashimoto, R AU - Hashimoto R FAU - Kashiwagi, Y AU - Kashiwagi Y FAU - Wada, Y AU - Wada Y FAU - Sakoda, S AU - Sakoda S FAU - Miyamae, Y AU - Miyamae Y FAU - Kudo, T AU - Kudo T FAU - Takeda, M AU - Takeda M LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - England TA - FEBS Lett JT - FEBS letters JID - 0155157 RN - 0 (Neurofilament Proteins) RN - 0 (neurofilament protein L) RN - 452VLY9402 (Serine) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Casein Kinase II) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Animals MH - Antibody Specificity MH - Casein Kinase II MH - Cattle MH - Immunohistochemistry MH - Neurofilament Proteins/chemistry/immunology/*metabolism MH - Phosphorylation MH - Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism MH - Rats MH - Serine/*metabolism MH - Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization EDAT- 1999/07/31 00:00 MHDA- 1999/07/31 00:01 CRDT- 1999/07/31 00:00 PHST- 1999/07/31 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1999/07/31 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/07/31 00:00 [entrez] AID - S0014-5793(99)00832-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00832-7 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - FEBS Lett. 1999 Jul 16;455(1-2):83-6. doi: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00832-7.