title: Molecular determinants of nuclear protein phosphatase-1 regulation by NIPP-1.
abstract: NIPP-1 is a subunit of the major nuclear protein phosphatase-1 (PP-1) in mammalian cells and potently inhibits PP-1 activity in vitro. Using yeast two-hybrid and co-sedimentation assays, we mapped a PP-1-binding site and the inhibition function to the central one-third domain of NIPP-1. Full-length NIPP-1 (351 residues) and the central domain, NIPP-1(143-217), were equally potent PP-1 inhibitors (IC50 = 0.3 nM). Synthetic peptides spanning the central domain of NIPP-1 further narrowed the PP-1 inhibitory function to residues 191-200. A second, noninhibitory PP-1-binding site was identified by far-Western assays with digoxygenin-conjugated catalytic subunit (PP-1C) and included a consensus RVXF motif (residues 200-203) found in many other PP-1-binding proteins. The substitutions, V201A and/or F203A, in the RVXF motif, or phosphorylation of Ser199 or Ser204, which are established phosphorylation sites for protein kinase A and protein kinase CK2, respectively, prevented PP-1C-binding by NIPP-1(191-210) in the far-Western assay. NIPP-1(191-210) competed for PP-1 inhibition by full-length NIPP-1(1-351), inhibitor-1 and inhibitor-2, and dissociated PP-1C from inhibitor-1- and NIPP-1(143-217)-Sepharose but not from full-length NIPP-1(1-351)-Sepharose. Together, these data identified some of the key elements in the central domain of NIPP-1 that regulate PP-1 activity and suggested that the flanking sequences stabilize the association of NIPP-1 with PP-1C.
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D002417:Cattle; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000201:enzymology; D004722:Endoribonucleases; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli; D006801:Humans; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000201:enzymology; D010449:Peptide Mapping; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D054645:Protein Phosphatase 1; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D011817:Rabbits; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D012694:Serine / Q000378:metabolism; D018411:Spodoptera; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D015003:Yeasts