2 resultados para checkpoint kinase 2
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Resumo:
Pyrrole–Imidazole polyamides are programmable, cell-permeable small molecules that bind in the minor groove of double-stranded DNA sequence-specifically. Polyamide binding has been shown to alter the local helical structure of DNA, disrupt protein-DNA interactions, and modulate endogenous gene expression. Py–Im polyamides targeted to the androgen receptor-DNA interface have been observed to decrease expression of androgen-regulated genes, upregulate p53, and induce apoptosis in a hormone-sensitive prostate cancer cell line. Here we report that androgen response element (ARE)-targeted polyamides induced DNA replication stress in a hormone-insensitive prostate cancer cell line. The ATR checkpoint kinase was activated in response to this stress, causing phosphorylation of MCM2, and FANCD2 was monoubiquitinated. Surprisingly, little single-stranded DNA was exhibited, and the ATR targets RPA2 and Chk1 were not phosphorylated. We conclude that polyamide induces relatively low level replication stress, and suggest inhibition of the replicative helicase as a putative mechanism based on in vitro assays. We also demonstrate polyamide-induced inhibition of DNA replication in cell free extracts from X. laevis oocytes. In this system, inhibition of chromatin decondensation is observed, preventing DNA replication initiation. Finally, we show that Py-Im polyamides targeted to the ARE and ETS binding sequence downregulate AR- and ERG-driven signaling in a prostate cancer cell line harboring the TMPRSS2-ERG fusion. In a mouse xenograft model, ARE-targeted polyamide treatment reduced growth of the tumor.
Resumo:
A variety of molecular approaches have been used to investigate the structural and enzymatic properties of rat brain type ll Ca^(2+) and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (type ll CaM kinase). This thesis describes the isolation and biochemical characterization of a brain-region specific isozyme of the kinase and also the regulation the kinase activity by autophosphorylation.
The cerebellar isozyme of the type ll CaM kinase was purified and its biochemical properties were compared to the forebrain isozyme. The cerebellar isozyme is a large (500-kDa) multimeric enzyme composed of multiple copies of 50-kDa α subunits and 60/58-kDa β/β’ subunits. The holoenzyme contains approximately 2 α subunits and 8 β subunits. This contrasts to the forebrain isozyme, which is also composed of and β/β'subunits, but they are assembled into a holoenzyme of approximately 9 α subunits and 3 β/β ' subunits. The biochemical and enzymatic properties of the two isozymes are similar. The two isozymes differ in their association with subcellular structures. Approximately 85% of the cerebellar isozyme, but only 50% of the forebrain isozyme, remains associated with the particulate fraction after homogenization under standard conditions. Postsynaptic densities purified from forebrain contain the forebrain isozyme, and the kinase subunits make up about 16% of their total protein. Postsynaptic densities purified from cerebellum contain the cerebellar isozyme, but the kinase subunits make up only 1-2% of their total protein.
The enzymatic activity of both isozymes of the type II CaM kinase is regulated by autophosphorylation in a complex manner. The kinase is initially completely dependent on Ca^(2+)/calmodulin for phosphorylation of exogenous substrates as well as for autophosphorylation. Kinase activity becomes partially Ca^(2+) independent after autophosphorylation in the presence of Ca^(2+)/calmodulin. Phosphorylation of only a few subunits in the dodecameric holoenzyme is sufficient to cause this change, suggesting an allosteric interaction between subunits. At the same time, autophosphorylation itself becomes independent of Ca^(2+) These observations suggest that the kinase may be able to exist in at least two stable states, which differ in their requirements for Ca^(2+)/calmodulin.
The autophosphorylation sites that are involved in the regulation of kinase activity have been identified within the primary structure of the α and β subunits. We used the method of reverse phase-HPLC tryptic phosphopeptide mapping to isolate individual phosphorylation sites. The phosphopeptides were then sequenced by gas phase microsequencing. Phosphorylation of a single homologous threonine residue in the α and β subunits is correlated with the production of the Ca^(2+) -independent activity state of the kinase. In addition we have identified several sites that are phosphorylated only during autophosphorylation in the absence of Ca^(2+)/ calmodulin.