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CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 39-48Publisher
JAPAN SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1247/csf.11044
Keywords
phosphorylation; protein kinase; signal transduction; proteomics; mass spectrometry
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [20227006, 23590357]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology [26-J-Jc08]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20227006, 23590357, 221S0003] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The small GTPase RhoA is a molecular switch in various extracellular signals. Rho-kinase/ROCK/ROK, a major effector of RhoA, regulates diverse cellular functions by phosphorylating cytoskeletal proteins, endocytic proteins, and polarity proteins. More than twenty Rho-kinase substrates have been reported, but the known substrates do not fully explain the Rho-kinase functions. Herein, we describe the comprehensive screening for Rho-kinase substrates by treating HeLa cells with Rho-kinase and phosphatase inhibitors. The cell lysates containing the phosphorylated substrates were then subjected to affinity chromatography using beads coated with 14-3-3 protein, which interacts with proteins containing phosphorylated serine or threonine residues, to enrich the phosphorylated proteins. The identities of the molecules and phosphorylation sites were determined by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) after tryptic digestion and phosphopeptide enrichment. The phosphorylated proteins whose phosphopeptide ion peaks were suppressed by treatment with the Rho-kinase inhibitor were regarded as candidate substrates. We identified 121 proteins as candidate substrates. We also identified phosphorylation sites in Partitioning defective 3 homolog (Par-3) at Ser143 and Ser144. We found that Rho-kinase phosphorylated Par-3 at Ser144 both in vitro and in vivo. The method used in this study would be applicable and useful to identify novel substrates of other kinases.
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