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. 1990 Oct 15;271(2):493–499. doi: 10.1042/bj2710493

The smooth muscle 132 kDa cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase substrate is not myosin light chain kinase or caldesmon.

B Sarcevic 1, P J Robinson 1, R B Pearson 1, B E Kemp 1
PMCID: PMC1149582  PMID: 2173564

Abstract

Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) stimulates the phosphorylation of three cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase substrate proteins of 225, 132, and 11 kDa (P225, P132 and P11 respectively) in the particulate fraction of cultured rat aortic smooth muscle cells [Sarcevic, Brookes, Martin, Kemp & Robinson (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 20648-20654]. Vrolix, Raeymaekers, Wuytack, Hofmann & Casteels [(1988) Biochem. J. 255, 855-863] have reported the presence of a 130 kDa cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase substrate protein in the membrane fraction of pig aorta or stomach, and suggested that it may be myosin light chain kinase (MLCK). The aim of the present study was to determine whether P132 from rat aorta was MLCK or caldesmon. Although P132 co-migrates with purified chicken gizzard MLCK on SDS/polyacrylamide gels, it is distinct from rat aortic MLCK. Partially purified MLCK from rat aorta migrated as a 145 kDa protein on SDS/polyacrylamide gels. Immunoblotting the partially purified rat aortic MLCK with antibody to bovine tracheal MLCK identified rat aortic MLCK (145 kDa) and a corresponding 145 kDa protein in the particulate fraction of cultured rat aortic smooth muscle cells, but did not detect the 132 kDa protein. Phosphopeptide maps of purified rat aortic MLCK prepared by digestion with Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease were distinct from those of P132. P132 was not caldesmon, since antibodies to caldesmon cross-reacted with 136 and 76 kDa proteins in the particulate fraction of rat aortic cells, but not with P132. Furthermore, caldesmon was partially extracted from the particulate into the soluble fraction by heating at 90 degrees C, whereas P132 was not. These results demonstrate that the ANP-responsive cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase substrate of 132 kDa from rat aortic smooth muscle cells is not MLCK or caldesmon.

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