title: Alterations in tyrosine protein kinase activities upon activation of human neutrophils.
abstract: Human neutrophils are phagocytic cells that can be activated by a variety of agonists to undergo a group of physiologic responses. This "stimulus-response" coupling is thought to be dependent on the phosphorylation of specific proteins. We have previously shown that, in addition to the widely distributed serine and threonine protein kinases, neutrophils contain tryosine protein kinase activity in the cell cytosol and particulate fractions. When neutrophils are treated with a variety of agents, phosphorylation of both cytosolic and particulate proteins on tyrosine residues occurs. Increases in tyrosine phosphorylation may be a result of increases in the activity of tyrosine kinases or a decrease in the activity of phosphotyrosine phosphatases. In this study, we have used a novel nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic method to demonstrate that treatment of human neutrophils with the chemotactic peptide FMLP or the phorbol ester phorbol myristate acetate induces a time- and concentration-dependent increase in the tyrosine protein kinase activity found in the cell cytosol and cell particulate fraction. The time course and concentration range over which these changes occur are similar to those seen for activation of the neutrophil oxidative burst and phosphorylation of proteins on tyrosine residues, suggesting that these events may be related.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35233.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Berkow
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Dodson
mesh_terms: D001345:Autoradiography; D002469:Cell Separation; D003600:Cytosol / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006801:Humans; D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine / Q000494:pharmacology; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology / Q000502:physiology*; D010766:Phosphorylation / Q000187:drug effects; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate