title: Efficacy of the phosphorylation of synthetic peptides by purified catalytic subunit of PKA (PKAcat) from bovine lens depends on the amino acid sequence of the peptides.
abstract: Protein kinase (PK) A catalytic (PKAcat) subunit was purified to homogeneity from bovine lens using a 100-kDa cut-off membrane filtration followed by different chromatographic procedures. The molecular weight of PKAcat was found to be 41 kDa. The kinase phosphorylates histone IIIs and other synthetic modified peptides of VRKRTLRRL with different amino acid environment. The extent of phosphorylation depends not only on the presence of Ser or Thr (phosphorylating residues) but also on other surrounding amino acid residues. Although some peptides compete in phosphorylating histone, they are not very significant. The result suggests that the extent of phosphorylation depends on the amino acid residue(s) surrounding phosphorylable residue(s) on the peptide.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Samanta
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mezö
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Ghose
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hudecz
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Sen
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D002417:Cattle; D017868:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D006657:Histones / Q000737:chemistry; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000201:enzymology*; D010455:Peptides / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation
chemical_list: D006657:Histones; D010455:Peptides; D017868:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases