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. 1992 Sep;11(9):3185–3191. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1992.tb05395.x

Physarum actin is phosphorylated as the actin-fragmin complex at residues Thr203 and Thr202 by a specific 80 kDa kinase.

J Gettemans 1, Y De Ville 1, J Vandekerckhove 1, E Waelkens 1
PMCID: PMC556851  PMID: 1324166

Abstract

The Physarum EGTA-resistant actin-fragmin complex, previously named cap 42(a+b), is phosphorylated in the actin subunit by an endogenous kinase [Maruta and Isenberg (1983) J. Biol. Chem., 258, 10151-10158]. This kinase has been purified and characterized. It is an 80 kDa monomeric enzyme, unaffected by known kinase regulators. Staurosporine acts as a potent inhibitor. The actin-fragmin complex is the preferred substrate. The phosphorylation is inhibited by micromolar Ca2+ concentrations, but only in the presence of additional actin. Polymerized actin (vertebrate muscle and non-muscle isoforms) and actin complexes with various actin-binding proteins are poorly phosphorylated. The heterotrimer consisting of two actins and one fragmin, which is formed from cap 42(a+b) and actin in the presence of micromolar concentrations of Ca2+, is also a poor substrate. From the other substrates tested, only histones were significantly phosphorylated, in particular histone H1. In the same manner, casein kinase I could also phosphorylate the actin-fragmin complex. The major phosphorylation site in actin is Thr203. A second minor site is Thr202. These residues constitute one of the contact sites for DNase I [Kabsch et al. (1990) Nature, 347, 37-44] and are also part of one of the predicted actin-actin contact sites in the F-actin model [Holmes et al. (1990) Nature, 347, 44-49].

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