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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-1-5
pubmed:abstractText
The majority of cellular responses to changing environmental conditions is regulated by protein kinases. Spermatozoa have many special properties, including motility with demonstrated chemotaxis, the ability to undergo capacitation, and the acrosome reaction, which are in part controlled by extracellular signals and in which sperm kinases are considered to be involved. We have previously reported that there is a protein kinase activity, which phosphorylates the synthetic substrate poly-(Glu, Tyr) with a Km value of 2.3 microM, and is inhibited by the tyrosine kinase inhibitor tyrphostin, in the protein extract from boar spermatozoa (Berruti and Porzio, 1992: Biochim Biophys Acta 1118:149-154). Now we have demonstrated that the enzyme is cytosolic, is active as a monomer of M(r) 42,000, is stimulated by Mg2+ > Mn2+ but not by Ca2+, is renaturable, and can phosphorylate native protein substrates such as microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) and histone H2B both on the tyrosine and serine residues. N-terminal sequence analysis suggests that it is a novel protein. These new findings imply that the boar sperm 42 kD kinase may be a novel member of the emerging class of dual-specificity protein kinases, and they raise the intriguing question of its function in the protein kinase network mediating signal transduction in mammalian spermatozoa.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1040-452X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
386-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Histones, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Male, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Microtubule-Associated Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Protein Processing, Post-Translational, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Serine, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Spermatozoa, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Substrate Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Swine, pubmed-meshheading:7980947-Tyrosine
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Biochemical characterization of the boar sperm 42 kilodalton protein tyrosine kinase: its potential for tyrosine as well as serine phosphorylation towards microtubule-associated protein 2 and histone H 2B.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology, University of Milan, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't