title: Identification of serine phosphorylation in mitochondrial uncoupling protein 1.
abstract: Native uncoupling protein 1 was purified from rat brown adipose tissue of cold-acclimated rats and rats kept at room temperature, in the presence of phosphatase inhibitors. The purified protein from cold-acclimated animals was digested with trypsin and immobilized metal affinity chromatography was used to select for phosphopeptides. Tandem mass spectroscopic analysis of the peptides derived from uncoupling protein 1, suggests phosphorylation of serine 3 or 4 and identified phosphorylation of serine 51. Furthermore, we were able to demonstrate that antibodies to phosphoserine detect full-length UCP 1 and that the proportion of phosphoserine on UCP1, purified from cold-acclimated rats, was significantly greater than that on UCP 1 from rats kept at room temperature (90+/-4% compared to 62+/-8%, p=0.013), respectively). We conclude that uncoupling protein 1 is a phosphoprotein and that cold-acclimation increases the proportion of UCP1 that is serine phosphorylated.
authors.affiliation: School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, UK.
authors.forename: Audrey M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Carroll
authors.forename: Richard K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.forename: Nick A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Morrice
mesh_terms: D000064:Acclimatization; D002001:Adipose Tissue, Brown / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation; D003080:Cold Temperature; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000378:metabolism*; D008322:Mammals; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000378:metabolism*; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012694:Serine / Q000378:metabolism*; D000071256:Uncoupling Protein 1
chemical_list: D007473:Ion Channels; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins; C000604373:Ucp1 protein, rat; D000071256:Uncoupling Protein 1; D012694:Serine; D010744:Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases