Activity of Protein Phosphatases Against Initiation Factor-2 and Elongation Factor-2

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Journal Biochem J

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1990 Nov 15

PMID 2176079

Citations 20

Authors

N T Redpath

C G Proud

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Abstract

The protein phosphatases active against phosphorylase a, elongation factor-2 (EF-2) and the alpha-subunit of initiation factor-2 (eIF-2) [eIF-2(alpha P)] were studied in extracts of rabbit reticulocytes. Swiss-mouse 3T3 fibroblasts and rat hepatocytes, by use of the specific phosphatase inhibitors okadaic acid and inhibitor proteins-1 and -2. In all three extracts tested, both phosphatase-1 and phosphatase-2A contributed to overall phosphatase activity against phosphorylase and eIF-2(alpha P), but phosphatase-2B and -2C did not. In contrast, only protein phosphatase-2A was active against EF-2. Furthermore, in hepatocytes there was substantial type-2C phosphatase activity against EF-2, but not against phosphorylase or eIF-2 alpha. These findings in cell extracts were borne out by data obtained by studying the activities of purified protein phosphatase-1 and -2A against eIF-2(alpha P) and eIF-2(alpha P) was a moderately good substrate for both enzymes (relative to phosphorylase a). In contrast, EF-2 was a very poor substrate for protein phosphatase-1, but was dephosphorylated faster than phosphorylase a by protein phosphatase-2A. The implications of these findings for the control of translation and their relationships to previous work are discussed.

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