AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 271, Issue 1 C304-C311, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Dephosphorylation of activated protein kinase C contributes to downregulation by bryostatin

H. W. Lee, L. Smith, G. R. Pettit and J. Bingham Smith
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294, USA.

We show that bryostatin 1 (Bryo) rapidly produces an inactive, incompetent 76-kDa form of protein kinase C-alpha (PKC-alpha) in the LLC-MK2 line of renal epithelial cells. Bryo, like phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), acutely activated PKC, as indicated by autophosphorylation and translocation of PKC-alpha, the predominant PMA-sensitive isoform expressed by the cells. Bryo concomitantly increased the 32P labeling of 80-kDa PKC-alpha by autophosphorylation and produced a 76-kDa form of PKC-alpha that lacked detectable 32P. The 76-kDa form was in the particulate rather than the cytosolic fraction, which suggests that it was produced from activated kinase. Alkaline phosphatase treatment of immunoprecipitated PKC-alpha converted the 80-kDa form to 76 kDa, but it had no effect on the mobility of the 76-kDa form, suggesting that it was not phosphorylated. Pulse-chase labeling of PKC-alpha with [35S]Met/Cys indicated that there is a precursor-product relationship between the 80- and 76-kDa forms, respectively. Inhibition of protein synthesis had no effect on the production of 76-kDa PKC-alpha by Bryo. PMA also produced 76-kDa PKC-alpha but was less potent and efficacious than Bryo. Bryo produced a more rapid loss of 80-kDa PKC-alpha protein and total Ca(2+)- and phospholipid-dependent PKC activity than PMA. The 76-kDa form is inactive and incompetent because it lacked detectable 32P under conditions that strongly autophosphorylated the 80-kDa form. We suggest that dephosphorylation predisposes PKC to proteolysis, and greater production of the 76-kDa form explains the more efficient downregulation of the kinase by Bryo vs. PMA.

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