Journal ArticleCell Chem Biol · April 18, 2024
The molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) has an essential but largely undefined role in maintaining proteostasis in Plasmodium falciparum, the most lethal malaria parasite. Herein, we identify BX-2819 and XL888 as potent P. falciparum (Pf)Hsp9 ...
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Journal ArticleCell Death Dis · April 17, 2024
Poor survival and lack of treatment response in glioblastoma (GBM) is attributed to the persistence of glioma stem cells (GSCs). To identify novel therapeutic approaches, we performed CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screens and discovered TGFβ activated kinase (TAK1) ...
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Journal ArticleCell Chem Biol · March 21, 2024
Conventional antimicrobial discovery relies on targeting essential enzymes in pathogenic organisms, contributing to a paucity of new antibiotics to address resistant strains. Here, by targeting a non-essential enzyme, Borrelia burgdorferi HtpG, to deliver ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Pain Research · January 1, 2024
Purpose: Joint pain is one of the most commonly reported pain types in the United States. In the case of patients suffering from inflammatory diseases such as osteoarthritis (OA) and gout, persistent inflammation due to long-term overexpression of several ...
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Journal ArticleScientific reports · December 2023
Evidence in SARS-CoV-2 patients have identified that viral infection is accompanied by the expression of inflammatory mediators by both immune and stromal cells within the pulmonary system. However, the immunogenicity of individual SARS-CoV-2 proteins has ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pain · September 2023
The origin of chronic pain is linked to inflammation, characterized by increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines in local tissues and systemic circulation. Transforming growth factor beta-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) is a key regulator of proinflammatory ...
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Journal ArticlePharmacol Res Perspect · August 2023
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex autoimmune disease characterized by hyperactive immune cells within the joints, which leads to inflammation, bone degeneration, and chronic pain. For several decades, frontline immunomodulators such as the anti-tumor ...
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Journal ArticleJCI Insight · July 24, 2023
Multiorgan fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (SSc) accounts for substantial mortality and lacks effective therapies. Lying at the crossroad of TGF-β and TLR signaling, TGF-β-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) might have a pathogenic role in SSc. We therefore sought to ...
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Journal ArticleExp Physiol · July 2023
NEW FINDINGS: What is the central question of this study? DAPK3 contributes to the Ca2+ -sensitization of vascular smooth muscle contraction: does this protein kinase participate in the myogenic response of cerebral arteries? What is the main finding and i ...
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Journal ArticleCancers (Basel) · November 23, 2022
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast is often managed by lumpectomy and radiation or mastectomy, despite its indolent features. Effective non-invasive treatment strategies could reduce the morbidity of DCIS treatment. We have exploited the high he ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · October 27, 2022
Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) maintains cellular proteostasis during stress and has been under investigation as a therapeutic target in cancer for over two decades. We and others have identified a membrane expressed form of Hsp90 (mHsp90) that previously a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunother Cancer · September 2022
BACKGROUND: We previously demonstrated potent antitumor activity against human breast cancer xenografts using photodynamic therapy (PDT) targeting a novel tumor-specific photosensitizer (HS201), which binds heat shock protein 90 (HS201-PDT). However, induc ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Endocrinol · July 1, 2022
Insulin resistance (InR) is manifested in skeletal muscle by decreased insulin-stimulated glucose uptake due to impaired insulin signaling and multiple post-receptor intracellular defects. Chronic glucose-induced insulin resistance leads to the activation ...
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Journal ArticlePain · June 1, 2022
Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is a ubiquitously expressed integral cellular protein essential for regulating proteomic stress. Previous research has shown that Hsp90 regulates critical signaling pathways underlying chronic pain and inflammation. Recent dis ...
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Journal ArticleACS Chem Biol · March 18, 2022
Selective targeting of TNF in inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has provided great therapeutic benefit to many patients with chronic RA. Although these therapies show initially high response rates, their therapeutic benefit is limited ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cancer Ther · January 2022
A noninvasive test to discriminate indolent prostate cancers from lethal ones would focus treatment where necessary while reducing overtreatment. We exploited the known activity of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) as a chaperone critical for the function of n ...
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Journal ArticleiScience · December 17, 2021
Currently available SARS-CoV-2 therapeutics are targeted toward moderately to severely ill patients and require intravenous infusions, with limited options for exposed or infected patients with no or mild symptoms. Although vaccines have demonstrated prote ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · November 2021
Mammalian cells acquire fatty acids (FAs) from dietary sources or via de novo palmitate production by fatty acid synthase (FASN). Although most cells express FASN at low levels, it is upregulated in cancers of the breast, prostate, and liver, among others, ...
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Journal ArticleNat Struct Mol Biol · August 2021
Aerobic glycolysis in cancer cells, also known as the 'Warburg effect', is driven by hyperactivity of lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA). LDHA is thought to be a substrate-regulated enzyme, but it is unclear whether a dedicated intracellular protein also regul ...
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Journal ArticleBiomed Opt Express · April 1, 2021
Overexpression of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) on the surface of breast cancer cells makes it an attractive molecular biomarker for breast cancer diagnosis. Before a ubiquitous diagnostic method can be established, an understanding of the systematic error ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · 2021
Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen whose pathogenic lifestyle is linked to its ability to cope with fluctuating levels of copper (Cu), an essential metal involved in multiple virulence mechanisms, within distinct host niches. Durin ...
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Journal ArticleSci Transl Med · December 16, 2020
Heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) is a cellular stress-protective transcription factor exploited by a wide range of cancers to drive proliferation, survival, invasion, and metastasis. Nuclear HSF1 abundance is a prognostic indicator for cancer severity, therapy r ...
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Journal ArticleOpen Biol · September 2020
Aberrant tumour necrosis factor (TNF) signalling is a hallmark of many inflammatory diseases including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), irritable bowel disease and lupus. Maladaptive TNF signalling can lead to hyper active downstream nuclear factor (NF)-κβ signa ...
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Journal ArticleOncotarget · May 26, 2020
Transforming growth factor beta-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) has been implicated for its role in inflammatory signaling and as an important mediator of cellular apoptosis and necroptosis in various cell types. Our recent discovery of a first-in-class, potent ...
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Journal ArticleCommun Biol · May 8, 2020
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) ablates malignancies by applying focused near-infrared (nIR) light onto a lesion of interest after systemic administration of a photosensitizer (PS); however, the accumulation of existing PS is not tumor-exclusive. We developed a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · February 7, 2020
Interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase-1 (IRAK-1) and IRAK-4, as well as transforming growth factor β-activated kinase 1 (TAK1), are protein kinases essential for transducing inflammatory signals from interleukin receptors. IRAK family proteins and TAK1 ...
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ConferenceOptics InfoBase Conference Papers · January 1, 2020
We developed a portable, low-cost, handheld fluorescent microscope to perform rapid heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) molecular imaging. The source of non-specific signal and diffusion kinetics of the probe is studied. ...
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Journal ArticleArthritis Res Ther · December 17, 2019
OBJECTIVES: To examine the ability of takinib, a selective transforming growth factor beta-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) inhibitor, to reduce the severity of murine type II collagen-induced arthritis (CIA), and to affect function of synovial cells. METHODS: Fo ...
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Journal ArticleArch Biochem Biophys · July 30, 2019
The NLRP proteins are a subfamily of the NOD-like receptor (NLR) innate immune sensors that possess an ATP-binding NACHT domain. As the most well studied member, NLRP3 can initiate the assembly process of a multiprotein complex, termed the inflammasome, up ...
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Journal ArticleCells · July 21, 2019
Copines make up a family of calcium-dependent, phospholipid-binding proteins found in numerous eukaryotic organisms. Copine proteins consist of two C2 domains at the N-terminus followed by an A domain similar to the von Willebrand A domain found in integri ...
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Journal ArticleCell Chem Biol · March 21, 2019
There is a scarcity of pharmacological tools to interrogate protein kinase function in Plasmodium parasites, the causative agent of malaria. Among Plasmodium's protein kinases, those characterized as atypical represent attractive drug targets as they lack ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · March 5, 2019
Leveraging the unique surface expression of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) in breast cancer provides an exciting opportunity to develop rapid diagnostic tests at the point-of-care setting. Hsp90 has previously been shown to have elevated expression levels a ...
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Journal ArticleCell Rep · January 29, 2019
The molecular chaperone Hsp90 stabilizes and activates client proteins. Co-chaperones and post-translational modifications tightly regulate Hsp90 function and consequently lead to activation of clients. However, it is unclear whether this process occurs ab ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · January 24, 2019
The role of the smoothelin-like 1 (SMTNL1) protein in mediating vascular smooth muscle contractile responses to intraluminal pressure was examined in resistance vessels. Mesenteric arterioles from wild type (WT) and SMTNL1 global knock-out (KO) mice were e ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · November 19, 2018
Immune challenge of invading macrophages at sites of infection is associated with release of TNF, which triggers a local cytokine storm as part of the normal inflammatory response. Whereas this response maybe beneficial in fighting off infections, similar ...
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Journal ArticleCell Chem Biol · October 18, 2018
Sustained vascular smooth muscle hypercontractility promotes hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The etiology of hypercontractility is not completely understood. New therapeutic targets remain vitally important for drug discovery. Here we report that ...
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Journal ArticleCell Stress Chaperones · July 2018
The molecular chaperone Hsp90 is one component of a highly complex and interactive cellular proteostasis network (PN) that participates in protein folding, directs misfolded and damaged proteins for destruction, and participates in regulating cellular tran ...
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Journal ArticleAntimicrob Agents Chemother · April 2018
Malaria remains a global health burden partly due to Plasmodium parasite resistance to first-line therapeutics. The molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) has emerged as an essential protein for blood-stage Plasmodium parasites, but details abou ...
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Journal ArticleEur Respir J · February 2018
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive disease of the lung parenchyma, causing significant morbidity through worsening dyspnoea and overall functional decline. IPF is characterised by apoptosis-resistant myofibroblasts, which are a major sour ...
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Journal ArticleMethods Mol Biol · 2018
Activation of the heat shock response, and in particular upregulation of stress-inducible Hsp70, herein referred to as Hsp70i, in newly transformed cells, appears to protect against protein damaging stimuli, induction of premature oncogene-induced terminal ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2018
Despite improvements in surgical resection, 20-40% of patients undergoing breast conserving surgery require at least one additional re-excision. Leveraging the unique surface expression of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90), a chaperone protein involved in seve ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · December 15, 2017
Purpose: Hsp90, a chaperone to numerous molecular pathways in malignant cells, is elevated in aggressive breast cancers. We hypothesized that identifying breast cells with elevated Hsp90 activity in situ could result in early detection of aggressive breast ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · December 13, 2017
Hsp90 has been studied extensively as a therapeutic target in breast cancer in pre-clinical and clinical trials, demonstrating a variety of roles in metastatic progression. The evidence to date suggests a compelling opportunity to leverage attributes of Hs ...
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Journal ArticleCell Rep · November 14, 2017
The serine/threonine protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) regulates multiple cellular signaling networks. A number of cellular factors, including heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90), promote the activation of PP5. However, it is unclear whether post-translational modific ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · October 23, 2017
While the demand for metabolic imaging has increased in recent years, simultaneous in vivo measurement of multiple metabolic endpoints remains challenging. Here we report on a novel technique that provides in vivo high-resolution simultaneous imaging of gl ...
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Journal ArticleRetrovirology · September 2017
BackgroundLike all viruses, HIV-1 relies on host systems to replicate. The human purinome consists of approximately two thousand proteins that bind and use purines such as ATP, NADH, and NADPH. By virtue of their purine binding pockets, purinome p ...
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Journal ArticleCell Chem Biol · August 17, 2017
Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) has both positive and negative roles in human disease. In certain cancers, TNF-α is infused locally to promote tumor regression, but dose-limiting inflammatory effects limit broader utility. In autoimmune disease, anti-T ...
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Journal ArticleACS Chem Biol · April 21, 2017
Extracellular expression of heat shock protein 90 (eHsp90) by tumor cells is correlated with malignancy. Development of small molecule probes that can detect eHsp90 in vivo may therefore have utility in the early detection of malignancy. We synthesized a c ...
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Journal ArticleOncotarget · February 7, 2017
Immunogenic cell death (ICD) is a form of cell death that activates an adaptive immune response against dead-cell-associated antigens. Cancer cells killed via ICD can elicit antitumor immunity. ICD is efficiently induced by near-infrared photo-immunotherap ...
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Dataset · July 18, 2016
Data related to submitted manuscript “A far-red Hsp90 inhibitor reveals mechanism underlying external Hsp90 trafficking”. Brightfield and fluorescence images of an experimental mouse (721 images each) and control mouse (620 images each). ...
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Journal ArticleACS Chem Biol · July 15, 2016
Three scaffolds with inhibitory activity against the heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) family of chaperones have been found to enhance the degradation of the microtubule associated protein tau in cells, neurons, and brain tissue. This is important because tau ...
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Journal ArticleNat Commun · June 29, 2016
Heat shock protein-90 (Hsp90) is an essential molecular chaperone in eukaryotes involved in maintaining the stability and activity of numerous signalling proteins, also known as clients. Hsp90 ATPase activity is essential for its chaperone function and it ...
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Journal ArticleCell Chem Biol · June 23, 2016
Many tumors are dependent on de novo fatty acid synthesis to maintain cell growth. Fatty acid synthase (FASN) catalyzes the final synthetic step of this pathway, and its upregulation is correlated with tumor aggressiveness. The consequences and adaptive re ...
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Journal ArticleAntiviral Res · June 2016
An estimated three billion people are at risk of Dengue virus (DENV) infection worldwide and there are currently no approved therapeutic interventions for DENV infection. Due to the relatively small size of the DENV genome, DENV is reliant on host factors ...
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Journal ArticleMol Pharmacol · January 2016
A novel inhibitor of zipper-interacting protein kinase (ZIPK) was used to examine the involvement of ZIPK in the regulation of smooth muscle contraction. Pretreatment of de-endothelialized rat caudal arterial smooth muscle strips with the pyrazolo[3,4-d]py ...
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Journal ArticleCell Rep · August 11, 2015
The ability of Heat Shock Protein 90 (Hsp90) to hydrolyze ATP is essential for its chaperone function. The co-chaperone Aha1 stimulates Hsp90 ATPase activity, tailoring the chaperone function to specific "client" proteins. The intracellular signaling mecha ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · July 17, 2015
Pregnancy promotes physiological adaptations throughout the body, mediated by the female sex hormones progesterone and estrogen. Changes in the metabolic properties of skeletal muscle enable the female body to cope with the physiological challenges of preg ...
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Journal ArticleChem Biol · December 18, 2014
Inducible Hsp70 (Hsp70i) is overexpressed in a wide spectrum of human tumors, and its expression correlates with metastasis, poor outcomes, and resistance to chemotherapy in patients. Identification of small-molecule inhibitors selective for Hsp70i could p ...
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Journal ArticleAntiviral Res · March 2014
The global emergence of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection is alarming and currently there is no licensed vaccine or antiviral treatment available to mitigate this disease. CHIKV infection typically results in high viral load with an outcome of high fever ...
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Journal ArticleACS Chem Biol · December 20, 2013
DAPK1 and ZIPK (also called DAPK3) are closely related serine/threonine protein kinases that regulate programmed cell death and phosphorylation of non-muscle and smooth muscle myosin. We have developed a fluorescence linked enzyme chemoproteomic strategy ( ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Cell Biology · December 9, 2013
RNA localization pathways direct numerous mRNAs to distinct subcellular regions and affect many physiological processes. In one such pathway the tumor-suppressor protein adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) targets RNAs to cell protrusions, forming APCcontaini ...
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ConferenceMolecular Cancer Therapeutics · November 1, 2013
AbstractHsp90 inhibitors have demonstrated unusual selectivity for tumor cells despite its ubiquitous expression. This phenomenon has remained unexplained but could be influenced by ectopically expressed Hsp ...
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Journal ArticleChem Biol · September 19, 2013
Inhibitors of heat-shock protein 90 (Hsp90) have demonstrated an unusual selectivity for tumor cells despite its ubiquitous expression. This phenomenon has remained unexplained, but could be influenced by ectopically expressed Hsp90 in tumors. In this work ...
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Journal ArticleFEBS J · March 2013
On the surface heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is an unlikely drug target for the treatment of any disease, let alone cancer. Hsp90 is highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed in all cells. There are two major isoforms α and β encoded by distinct genes an ...
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Journal ArticleCell Host Microbe · August 16, 2012
Erythrocytes carrying a variant hemoglobin allele (HbS), which causes sickle cell disease and resists infection by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The molecular basis of this resistance, which has long been recognized as multifactorial, remains ...
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Journal ArticleBioorg Med Chem · May 15, 2012
Over 200 proteins have been identified that interact with the protein chaperone Hsp90, a recognized therapeutic target thought to participate in non-oncogene addiction in a variety of human cancers. However, defining Hsp90 clients is challenging because in ...
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Journal ArticleBreast Cancer Res · April 17, 2012
INTRODUCTION: Although human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive or estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancers are treated with clinically validated anti-HER2 or anti-estrogen therapies, intrinsic and acquired resistance to these therapi ...
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Journal ArticleMethods Mol Biol · 2012
Protein kinase inhibitors have emerged as indispensable tools for the elucidation of the biological functions of specific signal transduction pathways and as promising candidates for molecular-targeted therapy. However, because many protein kinase inhibito ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · September 9, 2011
During pregnancy, uterine smooth muscle (USM) coordinately adapts its contractile phenotype in order to accommodate the developing fetus and then prepare for delivery. Herein we show that SMTNL1 plays a major role in pregnancy to promote adaptive responses ...
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Journal ArticleNucleic Acids Res · April 2011
The diverse localization of transcripts in cells suggests that there are many specific RNA-protein interactions that have yet to be identified. Progress has been limited, however, by the lack of a robust method to detect and isolate the RNA-binding protein ...
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Journal ArticleHypertension · March 2011
Vascular injury and remodeling are common pathological sequelae of hypertension. Previous studies have suggested that the renin-angiotensin system acting through the type 1 angiotensin II (AT(1)) receptor promotes vascular pathology in hypertension. To stu ...
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Journal ArticleCell Signal · January 2011
ZIPK (zipper-interacting protein kinase) is a Ca(2+)-independent protein kinase that promotes myosin phosphorylation in both smooth muscle and non-muscle cells. A recent report attempted to clarify a debate over the subcellular localization of ZIPK in non- ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · September 17, 2010
Pregnancy coordinately alters the contractile properties of both vascular and uterine smooth muscles reducing systemic blood pressure and maintaining uterine relaxation. The precise molecular mechanisms underlying these pregnancy-induced adaptations have y ...
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Journal ArticleChem Biol · July 30, 2010
A chemoproteomics-based drug discovery strategy is presented that utilizes a highly parallel screening platform, encompassing more than 1000 targets, with a focused chemical library prior to target selection. This chemoproteomics-based process enables a da ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Biochem · July 2009
In this study, we provide further insight into the contribution of the smoothelin-like 1 (SMTNL1) calponin homology (CH)-domain on myosin light chain phosphatase (SMPP-1M) activity and smooth muscle contraction. SMTNL1 protein was shown to have inhibitory ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · June 19, 2009
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene amplification, mutations, and/or aberrant activation are frequent abnormalities in malignant gliomas and other human cancers and have been associated with an aggressive clinical course and a poor therapeutic out ...
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Journal Article · January 1, 2009
This chapter discusses methodologies for analysis of the phosphoproteome, and describes how affinity captures using naturally occurring small molecules can be utilized to define protein kinases and phosphatases regulating phosphorylation events in vivo. In ...
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Journal ArticleTrends Parasitol · December 2008
Protein kinases (PKs) play crucial roles in the control of proliferation and differentiation in eukaryotic cells. Research on protein phosphorylation has expanded tremendously in the past few years, in part as a consequence of the realization that PKs repr ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Proteomics · June 2008
Recently protein kinases have emerged as some of the most promising drug targets; and therefore, pharmaceutical strategies have been developed to inhibit kinases in the treatment of a variety of diseases. CK2 is a serine/threonine-protein kinase that has b ...
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Journal ArticleNucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids · June 2008
We investigated the interacting proteins and intracellular localization of CTP synthetase 1 (CTPS1) in mammalian cells. CTPS1 interacted with a GST- peptidyl prolyl isomerase, Pin1 fusion (GST-Pin1) in a Ser 575 (S575) phosphorylation-dependent manner. Imm ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · April 25, 2008
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In vivo protein kinases A and G (PKA and PKG) coordinately phosphorylate a broad range of substrates to mediate their various physiological effects. The functions of many of these substrates have yet to be defined genetically. Herein we show a role for smo ...
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Journal ArticleHybridoma (Larchmt) · April 2008
Human (h) CD7 is a 40 kDa single chain Ig superfamily molecule that is expressed on thymocytes, a major subunit of peripheral T cells, and most natural killer cells. Ligands for hCD7 include the epithelial cell-produced molecule, K-12, and galectin. Mice d ...
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Journal ArticleJ Proteome Res · November 2007
Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) are sporadic or inherited vascular lesions of the central nervous system characterized by dilated, thin-walled, leaky vessels. Linkage studies have mapped autosomal dominant mutations to three loci: ccm1 (KRIT1), ccm2 ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · May 8, 2007
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Protein kinases are generally recognized as attractive drug targets to treat a variety of human diseases. Recent analysis of the Plasmodium falciparum kinome identified several kinases that are entirely unique to Plasmodium species. The specific functions ...
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Journal ArticleScience · April 6, 2007
Inositol pyrophosphates are a diverse group of high-energy signaling molecules whose cellular roles remain an active area of study. We report a previously uncharacterized class of inositol pyrophosphate synthase and find it is identical to yeast Vip1 and A ...
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Journal ArticleCell Signal · March 2007
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Phosphatase Interactor Targeting K protein (PITK) was previously identified as a novel PP1 targeting subunit implicated in modulating the phosphorylation of the transcriptional regulator heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K (hnRNP K) [Kwiek NC, Thacke ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · February 16, 2007
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Zipper-interacting protein kinase (ZIPK) regulates Ca(2+)-independent phosphorylation of both smooth muscle (to regulate contraction) and non-muscle myosin (to regulate non-apoptotic cell death) through either phosphorylation and inhibition of myosin phosp ...
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Journal ArticleMol Microbiol · February 2007
Clostridium taeniosporum spores have about 12 large, flat, ribbon-like appendages attached through a common trunk at one spore pole to a previously unknown surface layer outside the coat that is proposed to be called the 'encasement'. Appendages are about ...
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Journal ArticleBiochem Cell Biol · February 2007
Zipper-interacting protein kinase (ZIPK) is a serine-threonine kinase that has been implicated in Ca2+-independent myosin II phosphorylation and contractile force generation in vascular smooth muscle. However, relatively little is known about the contribut ...
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Journal ArticleMethods Mol Biol · 2007
Microcystin-based affinity matrices have been utilized to demonstrate the association of signaling proteins with protein phosphatases and for the purification of low-abundance microcystin-sensitive protein phosphatases. Here, we describe the procedure for ...
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Journal ArticleMethods Mol Biol · 2007
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Relaxation of smooth muscle can occur through agonists (such as nitric oxide) that activate guanylyl cyclase and stimulate the production of cGMP, activating its target, cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG). This kinase can raise the Ca2+ threshold for cont ...
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Journal Article · December 1, 2006
This chapter discusses affinity chromatography-based techniques to examine protein interaction between other proteins or small ligands. The first procedure involves the use of toxin microcystin LR (MC-LR) conjugated to a biotin or Sepharose matrix to bioch ...
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Journal ArticleCell Signal · October 2006
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Protein phosphatase-1 (PP1), through interactions with substrate targeting subunits, plays critical roles in the regulation of numerous cellular processes. Herein, we describe a newly identified regulatory subunit (PITK; Phosphatase Interactor Targeting K ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Invest · August 2006
The carboxypeptidase ACE2 is a homologue of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE). To clarify the physiological roles of ACE2, we generated mice with targeted disruption of the Ace2 gene. ACE2-deficient mice were viable, fertile, and lacked any gross structu ...
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Journal ArticleMol Biol Cell · April 2006
The Cdc25 phosphatase promotes entry into mitosis through the removal of inhibitory phosphorylations on the Cdc2 subunit of the Cdc2/CyclinB complex. During interphase, or after DNA damage, Cdc25 is suppressed by phosphorylation at Ser287 (Xenopus numberin ...
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Journal ArticleExpert Rev Proteomics · February 2006
This review will outline examples of the authors' focused proteomics approaches to studying signal transduction pathways in smooth muscle. By focusing the use of traditional proteomics techniques with hypothesis-driven selection methods, this approach effi ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Top Med Chem · 2006
Much attention has focused on the development of protein kinases as drug targets to treat a variety of human diseases including diabetes, cancer, hypertension and arthritis. To date, Gleevec is one example of a drug targeting protein that has successfully ...
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Chapter · November 16, 2005
This chapter discusses affinity chromatography-based techniques to examine protein interaction between other proteins or small ligands. The first procedure involves the use of toxin microcystin LR (MC-LR) conjugated to a biotin or Sepharose matrix to bioch ...
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Journal ArticleCell Signal · November 2005
Two major physiological roles have been defined for zipper interacting protein kinase (ZIPK), regulation of apoptosis in non-muscle cells and regulation of Ca(2+) sensitization in smooth muscle. Although much attention has focused on the role of ZIPK in th ...
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Journal ArticleMol Biol Cell · October 2005
Mammalian septins constitute a family of at least 12 GTP-binding proteins that can form hetero-oligomers and that are sometimes found in association with actin or microtubule filaments. However, their functions are not understood. Using RNA interference, w ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Biochem · July 2005
Phosphorylase b kinase (PhK) is a key enzyme involved in the conversion of glycogen to glucose in skeletal muscle and ultimately an increase in intracellular ATP. Since apoptosis is an ATP-dependent event, we investigated the regulation of skeletal muscle ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · March 11, 2005
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Zipper-interacting protein kinase (ZIPK) is a widely expressed serine/threonine kinase implicated in cell death and smooth muscle contractility, but its mechanism of regulation is unknown. We have identified six phosphorylation sites in ZIPK that regulate ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · December 2004
OBJECTIVE: Gliosis refers to a range of glial cell transformations that vary according to specific brain pathologic states. Disease, however, is not a prerequisite for gliosis because glial reactivity may also be seen in regions of increased physiologic ac ...
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Journal ArticleFEBS Lett · August 27, 2004
Cyclic nucleotides acting through their associated protein kinases, the cGMP- and cAMP-dependent protein kinases, can relax smooth muscles without a change in free intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i), a phenomenon referred to as Ca2+ desensitizat ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · August 13, 2004
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Regulation of smooth muscle myosin phosphatase (SMPP-1M) is thought to be a primary mechanism for explaining Ca(2+) sensitization/desensitization in smooth muscle. Ca(2+) sensitization induced by activation of G protein-coupled receptors acting through Rho ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · July 30, 2004
The Xenopus polo-like kinase Plx1 plays important roles during entry into and exit from mitosis (M phase). Previous studies revealed that Plx1 is activated by phosphorylation on serine and threonine residues, and purification of an activating enzyme from m ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · June 11, 2004
The C-terminal repeat domain (CTD) of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II is composed of tandem heptad repeats with consensus sequence Tyr1-Ser2-Pro3-Thr4-Ser5-Pro6-Ser7. In yeast, this heptad sequence is repeated about 26 times, and it becomes hyperp ...
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Journal ArticleBiochemistry · April 20, 2004
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Quinone oxidoreductase 2 (QR2) purified from human red blood cells was recently shown to be a potential target of the quinoline antimalarial compounds [Graves et al., (2002) Mol. Pharmacol. 62, 1364]. QR2 catalyzes the two-electron reduction of menadione v ...
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Journal ArticleNucleic Acids Res · July 1, 2003
The CRP (Cleavage of Radiolabeled Phosphoproteins) program guides the design and interpretation of experiments to identify protein phosphorylation sites by Edman sequencing of unseparated peptides. Traditionally, phosphorylation sites are determined by cle ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Biochem · June 2003
The 90-kDa heat shock protein (Hsp90) is a molecular chaperone that assists both in ATP-independent sequestration of damaged proteins, and in ATP-dependent folding of numerous targets, such as nuclear hormone receptors and protein kinases. Recent work from ...
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Journal ArticleBiol Reprod · May 2003
We report the presence of a unique, non-bacteriolytic, c (chicken or conventional type) lysozyme-like protein, SLLP1, in the acrosome of human sperm. C lysozymes are bacteriolytic and can also bind to N-acetylglucosamines linked by beta-1,4 glycosidic bond ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · March 21, 2003
The multifunctional calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases I and IV (CaMKI and CaMKIV) are closely related by primary sequence and predicted to have similar substrate specificities based on peptide studies. We identified a fragment of p300-(1-117) th ...
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Journal ArticleRecent Prog Horm Res · 2003
The purpose of this review is to highlight how proteomics techniques can be used to answer specific questions related to signal transduction in a wide variety of systems. In our laboratory, we utilize proteomic technologies to elucidate signal transduction ...
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Journal ArticleMol Pharmacol · December 2002
The quinolines have been used in the treatment of malaria, arthritis, and lupus for many years, yet the precise mechanism of their action remains unclear. In this study, we used a functional proteomics approach that exploited the structural similarities be ...
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Journal ArticleBiochem J · August 15, 2002
A mechanism proposed for regulation of myosin phosphatase (MP) activity is phosphorylation of the myosin phosphatase target subunit (MYPT1). Integrin-linked kinase (ILK) is associated with the contractile machinery and can phosphorylate myosin at the myosi ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · June 28, 2002
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Smooth muscle calcium sensitization reflects an inhibition of myosin light chain phosphatase (SMPP-1m) activity; however, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. SMPP-1m activity can be modulated through phosphorylation of the myosin targeting s ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Proteomics · April 2002
Edman phosphate ((32)P) release sequencing provides a high sensitivity means of identifying phosphorylation sites in proteins that complements mass spectrometry techniques. We have developed a bioinformatic assessment tool, the cleavage of radiolabeled pro ...
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Journal ArticleMicrobiol Mol Biol Rev · March 2002
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The emergence of proteomics, the large-scale analysis of proteins, has been inspired by the realization that the final product of a gene is inherently more complex and closer to function than the gene itself. Shortfalls in the ability of bioinformatics to ...
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Journal ArticleMol Pharmacol · March 2002
Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase II (CPSII) is part of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase/aspartate transcarbamoylase/dihydroorotase (CAD), a multienzymatic protein required for the de novo synthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides and cell growth. Herein, we identify ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Proteomics · February 2002
We describe two novel sequence similarity search algorithms, FASTS and FASTF, that use multiple short peptide sequences to identify homologous sequences in protein or DNA databases. FASTS searches with peptide sequences of unknown order, as obtained by mas ...
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Journal ArticleNat Cell Biol · October 2001
The Cdc42 GTPase binds to numerous effector proteins that control cell polarity, cytoskeletal remodelling and vesicle transport. In many cases the signalling pathways downstream of these effectors are not known. Here we show that the Cdc42 effectors Borg1 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · July 6, 2001
Forskolin and 8-bromoguanosine 3'-5'-cyclic monophosphate (8-Br-cGMP) induce phosphorylation of Ser-13 of telokin and relaxation of smooth muscle at constant calcium. Comparison with the effect of wild type with aspartate (D; to mimic phosphorylation) and ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · May 4, 2001
In vivo 32P-labeled yeast proteins from wild type and ppz1 ppz2 phosphatase mutants were resolved by bidimensional electrophoresis. A prominent phosphoprotein, which in ppz mutants showed a marked shift to acidic regions, was identified by mixed peptide se ...
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Journal ArticleFEBS Lett · March 30, 2001
Phosphorylation of CPI-17 and PHI-1 by the MYPT1-associated kinase (M110 kinase) was investigated. M110 kinase is a recently identified serine/threonine kinase with a catalytic domain that is homologous to that of ZIP kinase (ZIPK. GST-rN-ZIPK, a constitut ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · February 27, 2001
Ca(2+) sensitization of smooth muscle contraction involves inhibition of myosin light chain phosphatase (SMPP-1M) and enhanced myosin light chain phosphorylation. Inhibition of SMPP-1M is modulated through phosphorylation of the myosin targeting subunit (M ...
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Journal ArticleFEBS Lett · August 18, 2000
The Ca(2+)-independent acceleration of dephosphorylation of the regulatory light chain of smooth muscle myosin and relaxation of smooth muscle by telokin are enhanced by cyclic nucleotide-activated protein kinase(s) [Wu et al. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 11 ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Biol · May 2000
Control of the translational repressor, PHAS-I, was investigated by expressing proteins with Ser/Thr --> Ala mutations in the five (S/T)P phosphorylation sites. Results of experiments with HEK293 cells reveal at least three levels of control. At one extrem ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Biol · February 2000
Protein phosphatase 1, comprising the regulatory subunit Reg1 and the catalytic subunit Glc7, has a role in glucose repression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Previous studies showed that Reg1 regulates the Snf1 protein kinase in response to glucose. Here, we ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · January 28, 2000
Far Westerns with digoxigenin-conjugated protein phosphatase-1 (PP1) catalytic subunit identified PP1-binding proteins in extracts from bovine, rat, and human brain. A major 70-kDa PP1-binding protein was purified from bovine brain cortex plasma membranes, ...
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Journal ArticleEMBO J · August 2, 1999
Protein phosphatase 1 (Glc7p) and its binding protein Reg1p are essential for the regulation of glucose repression pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In order to identify physiological substrates for the Glc7p-Reg1p complex, we examined the effects of d ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · December 8, 1998
rRNA synthesis by RNA polymerase I requires both the promoter selectivity factor 1, which is composed of TATA binding protein (TBP) and three TBP-associated factors, and the activator upstream binding factor (UBF). Whereas there is strong evidence implicat ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · September 18, 1998
Microcystin-affinity chromatography was used to purify 15 protein phosphatase 1 (PP1)-binding proteins from the myofibrillar fraction of rabbit skeletal muscle. To reduce the time and amount of material required to identify these proteins, proteome analysi ...
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Journal ArticleFEBS Lett · September 11, 1998
The primary site in PHAS-I for phosphorylation by protein kinase CK2 in vitro was identified as Ser111. A relatively small amount of phosphorylation of Ser99 was also detected, and mutating Ser99 to Ala in PHAS-I slightly decreased phosphorylation by CK2 i ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · May 1, 1998
Incorporation of 32P into telokin, a smooth muscle-specific, 17-18-kDa, acidic (pI 4.2-4.4) protein, was increased by forskolin (20 microM) in intact rabbit ileum smooth muscle (ileum) and by 8-bromo-cyclic GMP (100 microM) in alpha-toxin-permeabilized ile ...
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Journal ArticleNatural Product Letters · January 1, 1998
Using a combination of P388 cytotoxicity testing, protein phosphatase enzyme inhibition assays and an ELISA immunoassay, okadaic acid, the causative agent of diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP), has been found in Raspalia agminata, and detected in two oth ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · December 19, 1997
The eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E)-binding protein, PHAS-I, was phosphorylated rapidly and stoichiometrically when incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP and the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) that had been immunoprecipitated with an antibody, mTAb1, ...
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Journal ArticleFASEB Journal · December 1, 1997
Recently we purified to homogeneity a MEK enhancing factor (MEF) that stimulates the rate of MAPK phosphorylation by MEK. In the presence of MKF, molar equivalents of MEK to MAPK were sufficient for MAPK phosphorylation to stoichiometric levels. MEE was id ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · September 19, 1997
Many functions of the chaperone, heat shock protein 90 (hsp90), are inhibited by the drug geldanamycin that specifically binds hsp90. We have studied an amino-terminal domain of hsp90 whose crystal structure has recently been solved and determined to conta ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · April 11, 1997
Phosphorylation of PHAS-I by mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase in vitro decreased PHAS-I binding to eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF)-4E. The decrease in binding lagged behind the phosphorylation of PHAS-I in Ser64, the preferred site of MAP kinase. ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol · February 1997
Smooth muscle cells (SMC) within atherosclerotic lesions proliferate and exhibit phenotypic modulation, but the contribution of vascular endothelium to this process is poorly understood. Our aim was to examine the effects of endothelial cell-conditioned me ...
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Journal ArticleAdv Enzyme Regul · 1997
PHAS-I and PHAS-II are members of a newly discovered family of proteins that regulate translation initiation. PHAS-I is expressed in a wide variety of cell types, but it is highest in adipocytes, where protein synthesis is markedly increased by insulin. PH ...
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Journal ArticleFASEB Journal · December 1, 1996
Our previous studies have shown that protein synthesis is inhibited in rat skeletal muscle during diabetes and that the inhibition is rapidly reversed by insulin treatment of diabetic rats. In the present study, we have investigated the roles of the cap-bi ...
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Journal ArticleFASEB Journal · December 1, 1996
Angiotensin II (A-II) and cc-thrombin are growth factors that have been previously shown in this laboratory to induce hypertrophy and mitogenesis of cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC), respectively. The intracellular signaling pathways through wh ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · November 8, 1996
Biotinylated microcystin was used to affinity purify over avidin-Sepharose the entire cellular content of active forms of protein phosphatase (PP) 1 and 2A holoenzymes present in three subcellular fractions of skeletal muscle. Biotinylated microcystin disp ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Biochem · July 15, 1996
To characterize the in situ interactions between the subunits (regulatory 110 kDa, M110; 21-kDa, M21 and catalytic, 37-kDa, PP1c) of smooth muscle myosin phosphatase (SMPP-1M), we determined, in Triton-X-100-permeabilized rabbit portal vein contracted with ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol · February 1996
We have investigated the roles of eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF-4E), the cap-binding protein, and the translational regulator, PHAS-I, in the effects of insulin and alloxan-induced diabetes on protein synthesis in rat skeletal muscle. Diabetes incre ...
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Journal ArticleFEBS Lett · December 18, 1995
We have cloned a partial rat kidney cDNA that encodes a 72.5 kDa N terminal fragment of a third isoform of the M110 subunit of phosphatase 1. This new isoform contains an insert in the 542-597 position not present in the M110 previously cloned (Chen et al. ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · October 20, 1995
Hypertrophy of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) is an important adaptive response of hypertension. Drug intervention studies have implicated a role for angiotensin II (A-II) in the mediation of VSMC hypertrophy in vivo, and A-II is a potent hypertrophic ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · October 13, 1995
We have purified 3500-fold from rabbit skeletal muscle a 12,020-Da mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK)-enhancing factor (MEF) that stimulates both mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) autophosphorylation and the rate (24-fold) at which the enz ...
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Journal ArticleAnal Biochem · February 10, 1995
Reaction conditions were defined for the selective quantitative derivatization and fluorophore labeling of phosphoserine residues on peptides and proteins. Phosphoserine was derivatized with 1,2-ethanedithiol using a modification of the reaction conditions ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · December 16, 1994
We have purified to homogeneity from the myofibrillar fraction of pig bladder a mammalian heterotrimeric form of PP-1, SMPP-1M. Purified pig bladder SMPP-1M is similar in composition and substrate specificity to avian gizzard PP-1M reported by Alessi et al ...
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Journal ArticleScience · October 28, 1994
PHAS-I is a heat-stable protein (relative molecular mass approximately 12,400) found in many tissues. It is rapidly phosphorylated in rat adipocytes incubated with insulin or growth factors. Nonphosphorylated PHAS-I bound to initiation factor 4E (eIF-4E) a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · September 16, 1994
PHAS-I is a heat- and acid-stable protein that is phosphorylated on Ser/Thr residues in response to insulin and growth factors. To investigate the phosphorylation of PHAS-I, the protein was expressed in bacteria and purified for use as substrate in protein ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Biochem · July 15, 1994
The AMP-activated protein kinase has been purified by affinity chromatography on ATP-gamma-Sepharose. A proportion of the activity can be eluted using AMP, while the remainder is eluted using ATP. The AMP eluate contains three polypeptides of 63, 38 and 35 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · April 29, 1994
Treatment of adipocytes with insulin or phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) results in transient activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK) (Tmax = 90 s) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) (Tmax = 300 s). We have identified a no ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Biochem · June 1, 1993
Recently, Sowadski and colleagues [Knighton, D.R., Zheng, J., Eyck, L.F.T., Ashford, V.A., Xuong, N., Taylor, S.S. & Sowadski, J.M. (1991) Science 407, 407-420] reported the structure of a ternary complex of the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein ...
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Journal ArticleFEBS Lett · February 8, 1993
Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases p42mapk and p44mapk are activated by dual tyrosine and threonine phosphorylation in vivo. Both MAPKs are phosphorylated and activated in vitro by an activator recently identified as a protein-tyrosine/threonine kinas ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · January 1, 1993
MAP kinases p42mapk and p44mapk participate in a protein kinase cascade(s) important for signaling in many cell types and contexts. Both MAP kinases are activated in vitro by MAP kinase kinase, a protein-tyrosine and threonine kinase. A MAP kinase kinase c ...
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Journal ArticleScience · September 4, 1992
Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases are 42- and 44-kD serine-threonine protein kinases that are activated by tyrosine and threonine phosphorylation in cells stimulated with mitogens and growth factors. MAP kinase and the protein kinase that activates i ...
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Journal ArticleBiochem J · August 1, 1992
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAP kinase) activator was purified 2000-fold from skeletal muscle, and proteins which co-purified with the activator were analysed after SDS/PAGE by renaturation and partial sequencing. Activity for tyrosine and threonine ...
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Journal ArticleFEBS Lett · July 13, 1992
Preparation of milligram amounts of [32P]p42mapk, phosphorylated at Tyr185 or diphosphorylated at Tyr185/Thr183, for use as specific protein phosphatase substrates is described. Tyr- but not Thr-phosphorylated p42mapk, accumulates when ATP is limiting. Fur ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · January 25, 1991
Phorbol esters, acting via activation of the protein kinase C family of protein serine/threonine kinases, are able to exert profound effects on various cellular functions. In this study, we used the EL4 thymoma cell line to study the potential role of "dow ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · September 25, 1990
Treatment of adipocytes with okadaic acid (a specific inhibitor of type 1 and 2a protein phosphatases) resulted in a rapid 8-10-fold stimulation of cell extract myelin basic protein (MBP) kinase activity (t1/2 = 10 min) and kinase activity toward a synthet ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Biochem · January 12, 1990
1. In isolated rat adipocytes, acetyl-CoA carboxylase is inactivated by treatment of the cells with adrenaline or the beta-agonist isoproterenol, but not by the alpha-agonist phenylephrine. The inactivation is stable during purification in the presence of ...
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Journal ArticleNature · January 5, 1989
Okadaic acid is a polyether derivative of 38-carbon fatty acid, and is implicated as the causative agent of diarrhetic shellfish poisoning. It is a potent tumour promoter that is not an activator of protein kinase C, but is a powerful inhibitor of protein ...
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Journal ArticleJ Craniofac Genet Dev Biol · 1989
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulated mouse embryo palate mesenchyme (MEPM) cells (1) to incorporate [32P]O4(3-) into phosphatidylinositol (PI), phosphatidylcholine, and phosphatidic acid over a period of 60 min; 2) to incorporate [32P]O4(3-) into polyp ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Biochem · August 1, 1988
We have examined the sites phosphorylated on acetyl-CoA carboxylase in response to insulin in isolated adipocytes. Two tryptic peptides derived from the enzyme become more radioactive after treatment of 32P-labelled cells with insulin. One of these (T4a) a ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Biochem · August 1, 1988
1. The phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate (TPA) stimulates fatty acid synthesis from glucose in isolated adipocytes with a half-maximal effect at 0.72 microM. In seven batches of cells, the maximal effects of TPA and insulin were 8.5 +/- 1 ...
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Journal ArticleBiochem J · November 15, 1986
The activation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (measured in a crude supernatant fraction) caused by insulin treatment of adipocytes was completely unaffected by the addition of a large amount of highly purified protein phosphatase to the supernatant fraction. Un ...
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Journal ArticleBiochem J · March 1, 1986
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulates lipogenesis by 3-4-fold in isolated adipocytes, with a half-maximal effect at 10 nM-EGF. In the same batches of cells insulin stimulated lipogenesis by 15-fold. Freezing and prolonged homogenization of adipocytes re ...
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Journal ArticlePharmacol Biochem Behav · May 1983
Ten marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) learned to discriminate between pairs of small grey objects differing only in shape or small plain plaques differing only in colour, in a Wisconsin General Test Apparatus. Each day, each animal was presented with three co ...
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Journal ArticlePharmacol Biochem Behav · June 1981
Nine marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) were tested on a variety of visual discrimination learning tasks in a Wisconsin General Test Apparatus with or without alpha-noradrenergic receptor blockade achieved by the administration of aceperone. After aceperone, a ...
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Journal ArticlePharmacol Biochem Behav · March 1981
The effect of amphetamine and haloperidol pretreatment on visual object reversal learning was assessed in the marmoset. Amphetamine induced perseverative responding demonstrated by high reversal learning scores and worse than chance performance in the earl ...
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Journal ArticlePsychopharmacology (Berl) · 1981
Low doses of amphetamine induce choice perseveration in an object discrimination task under conditions where such perseveration either increases or decreases the number of rewards obtained as compared to chance performance. Neither stereotyped motor action ...
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Journal ArticlePsychopharmacology (Berl) · 1981
Low doses of amphetamine were found to alter the ability of marmosets to take account of changes in reward values of object stimuli in a visual discrimination task. Under amphetamine, animals changed their motor responses and stimulus choice in order to pr ...
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Journal ArticlePsychopharmacology (Berl) · 1980
Marmosets were trained on a task involving simultaneous and successive visual discrimination performance where responses were required on all trials. Performance of this task was not affected by low doses of amphetamine. From this it is concluded that amph ...
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