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. 1991 Feb;11(2):705–712. doi: 10.1128/mcb.11.2.705

A kinase-negative mutant of S49 mouse lymphoma cells is defective in posttranslational maturation of catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.

R A Steinberg 1
PMCID: PMC359721  PMID: 1703630

Abstract

Kinase-negative mutants of S49 mouse lymphoma cells, which lack detectable catalytic (C) subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase, nevertheless contain cytoplasmic mRNAs for the two major forms of C subunit, C alpha and C beta. Investigation of the metabolism of C subunits in wild-type and mutant cells was undertaken to identify the step(s) at which C subunit expression was defective in kinase-negative cells. [35S]methionine-labeled C subunits from cytosolic fractions of wild-type S49 cells or C subunit-overexpressing cell lines were visualized by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis after purification by either affinity chromatography using a peptide inhibitor of C subunit as the ligand or immunoadsorption with an anti-C subunit antiserum. Immunoadsorption revealed electrophoretic forms of C alpha and C beta subunits that migrated faster than those detected in affinity-purified samples; this unexpected heterogeneity suggested that functional activation of C subunit may require posttranslational modification. Immunoadsorption of cytosolic fractions from wild-type cells labeled for various times with [35S]methionine revealed an additional posttranslational maturation step. The bulk of immunoadsorbable C subunit label in cells pulse-labeled for 5 min or less was in an insoluble fraction from which it could be solubilized with a detergent-containing buffer; solubilization of the newly synthesized material proceeded over an incubation period of about 10 min. The primary defect in kinase-negative cells appeared to be in this solubilization step, since about equal C subunit radioactivity was found in detergent extracts of wild-type and kinase-negative cells but very little was found in mutant cytosols. I speculate that an accessory factor required for proper folding of newly synthesized C subunit in defective in the kinase-negative cells.

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