PMID- 10557092 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19991203 LR - 20171116 IS - 0950-9232 (Print) IS - 0950-9232 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 44 DP - 1999 Oct 28 TI - The physical association and phosphorylation of Cdc25C protein phosphatase by Prk. PG - 6029-36 AB - prk encodes a protein serine/threonine kinase involved in regulating M phase functions during the cell cycle. We have expressed His6-Prk and His6-Cdc25C proteins using the baculoviral vector expression system. Purified recombinant His6-Prk, but not a kinase-defective mutant His6-PrkK52R, is capable of strongly phosphorylating His6-Cdc25C in vitro. Co-immunoprecipitation and affinity column chromatography experiments demonstrate that GST-Prk and native Cdc25C interact. When co-infected with His6-Prk and His6-Cdc25C recombinant baculoviruses, sf-9 cells produce His6-Cdc25C antigen with an additional slower mobility band on denaturing polyacrylamide gels compared with cells infected with His6-Cdc25C baculovirus alone. In addition, His6-Cdc25C immunoprecipitated from sf-9 cells co-infected with His6-Prk and His6-Cdc25C baculoviruses, but not with His6-PrkK52R and His6-Cdc25C baculoviruses, contains a greatly enhanced kinase activity that phosphorylates His6-Cdc25C in vitro. Moreover, phosphopeptide mapping shows that His6-Prk phosphorylates His6-Cdc25C at two sites in vitro and that the major phosphorylation site co-migrates with the one that is phosphorylated in vivo in asynchonized cells. Further studies reveal that His6-Prk phosphorylates Cdc25C on serine216, a residue also phosphorylated by Chk1 and Chk2. Together, these observations strongly suggest that Prk's role in mitosis is at least partly mediated through direct regulation of Cdc25C. FAU - Ouyang, B AU - Ouyang B AD - Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; ML-508, K-pavilion, 231 Bethesda Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, OH 45267-0508, USA. FAU - Li, W AU - Li W FAU - Pan, H AU - Pan H FAU - Meadows, J AU - Meadows J FAU - Hoffmann, I AU - Hoffmann I FAU - Dai, W AU - Dai W LA - eng GR - R01-74229/PHS HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - England TA - Oncogene JT - Oncogene JID - 8711562 RN - 0 (Cell Cycle Proteins) RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - EC 2.5.1.18 (Glutathione Transferase) RN - EC 2.7.1.- (protein kinase N) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.13 (Protein Kinase C) RN - EC 3.1.3.48 (CDC25C protein, human) RN - EC 3.1.3.48 (cdc25 Phosphatases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Baculoviridae/genetics MH - Blotting, Western MH - Cell Cycle/genetics MH - Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Glutathione Transferase/genetics/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Insecta/cytology/virology MH - Phosphorylation MH - Precipitin Tests MH - Protein Kinase C MH - Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism MH - Recombinant Proteins/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - cdc25 Phosphatases/genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism EDAT- 1999/11/11 00:00 MHDA- 1999/11/11 00:01 CRDT- 1999/11/11 00:00 PHST- 1999/11/11 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1999/11/11 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/11/11 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1038/sj.onc.1202983 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Oncogene. 1999 Oct 28;18(44):6029-36. doi: 10.1038/sj.onc.1202983.