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. 1994 Dec 1;304(Pt 2):641–647. doi: 10.1042/bj3040641

Partial purification of a type eta protein kinase C from murine brain: separation from other protein kinase C isoenzymes and characterization.

R Zang 1, H J Müller 1, K Kielbassa 1, F Marks 1, M Gschwendt 1
PMCID: PMC1137539  PMID: 7999002

Abstract

Various murine tissues were tested, by using a protein kinase C-eta-specific antiserum, for the expression of type eta protein kinase C. Brain was found to be the richest source of a type eta isoenzyme. Native protein kinase C-eta was partially purified from the cytosol of murine brain by chromatography on DEAE-Sepharose, hydroxyapatite and protamine-agarose. This procedure resulted in a separation of protein kinase C-eta from the other phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA)-responsive isoenzymes (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon) and allowed, for the first time, characterization of the native enzyme. The protein kinase C of type eta from mouse brain is a phospholipid-dependent Ca(2+)-unresponsive protein kinase. Both PMA and bryostatin activate the kinase for phosphorylation of a substrate as well as for autophosphorylation. Various pseudo-substrate-related peptides are suitable as substrates for the eta-type kinase, peptide delta being the best and peptides eta and epsilon the poorest substrates. The enzyme is inhibited by staurosporine and staurosporine-related compounds, such as K252a and Gö 6976. However, protein kinase C-eta, like protein kinase C-delta, is around two orders of magnitude less sensitive towards Gö 6976 than are the Ca(2+)-responsive isoenzymes (alpha, beta, gamma). The eta-type protein kinase C exhibits an extreme tendency to lose its PMA-responsiveness. Consequently, purification of the enzyme to homogeneity has not yet been successful.

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