Activation of Hormone-Sensitive Lipase and Phosphorylase Kinase by Purified Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinase
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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 74, No. 11, pp. 4843-4847, November 1977 Biochemistry Activation of hormone-sensitive lipase and phosphorylase kinase by purified cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase (cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase/protein kinase inhibitor/cholesterol esterase) JOHN C. KHOO, PAMELA J. SPERRY, GORDON N. GILL, AND DANIEL STEINBERG Division of Metabolic Disease and Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 Communicated by Nathan 0. Kaplan, August 12,1977 ABSTRACT Cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase, purified The role of cAMP-dependent protein kinase in the activation to homogeneity from bovine lung, was shown to activate hor- of hormone-sensitive lipase from adipose tissue (9) and of mone-sensitive lipase partially purified from chicken adipose phosphorylase kinase from skeletal muscle (10) is well estab- tissue. The degree of activation was the same as that effected by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase although higher con- lished. The availability of a highly purified preparation of centrations of the cyclic GMP-dependent enzyme were required cGMP-dependent protein kinase (7) led- us to test the possibility (relative activities expressed in terms of histone H2b phospho- that this kinase might modify the activity of these intercon- rylation units). Activation by cyclic AMP-dependent protein vertible enzymes. kinase was completely blocked by the heat-stable protein kinase inhibitor protein from skeletal muscle but activation by the AND METHODS cyclic GMP enzyme was not inhibited. Lipase fully activated MATERIALS by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase showed no further Materials. ['4C]Triolein and cholesterol [1-14CJoleate were change in activity when treated with cyclic GMP-dependent purchased from Dhom Products, Ltd. Phosphorylase b (rabbit protein kinase. Lipase activated by cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase was reversibly deactivated by purified phos- skeletal muscle), phosphoglucomutase, glucose-6-P dehydro- phorylase phosphatase (from bovine heart); full activity was genase, histone H2b, cAMP, cGMP, and ATP were obtained restored by reincubation with cyclic GMP and cyclic GMP- from Sigma Chemical Co. ['y-32P]ATP was prepared by the dependent protein kinase. Cholesterol esterase activity in the method of Glynn and Chappell (11). cAMP-dependent protein chicken adipose tissue fraction, previously shown to be activated kinase (specific activity, 45 nmol of 32p incorporated per mg along with the triglyceride lipase by cyclic AMP-dependent of histone H2b per mg of protein per min) was purified from protein kinase, was also activated by cyclic GMP-dependent to the method of Wastila et protein kinase. Crude preparations of hormone-sensitive tri- rabbit skeletal muscle according glyceride lipase from human or rat adipose tissue and choles- al. (12) through the first DEAE-cellulose chromatography step. terol esterase from rat adrenal were also activated by cyclic Protein kinase inhibitor was also purified from rabbit skeletal GMP-dependent protein kinase. Purified hosphorylase kinase muscle through the DEAE-cellulose chromatography step by (rabbit skeletal muscle) was also shown to be activated by cyclic the method of Walsh et al. (13). Phosphorylase kinase was pu- GMP-dependent protein kinase. The present results, together rified from rabbit skeletal muscle by the method of Cohen (14). with those of other workers on histone phosphorylation, suggest that the substrate specificities of cyclic GMP-dependent and Phosphorylase phosphatase, a generous gift of E. Y. C. Lee, was cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase may be similar. This is purified from bovine heart to homogeneity by-the method of discussed in the light of a model recently proposed with regard Brandt et al. (15). The specific activity was 7890 units/mg of to the relationship between the subunit structures of the two protein. kinases. The physiologic significance of the findings remains Preparation of cGMP-Dependent Protein Kinase and to be established. Hormone-Sensitive Lipase. cGMP-dependent protein kinase was purified from bovine lung by affinity chromatography on Changes in intracellular concentrations of cyclic GMP (cGMP) 8-NH2(CH2)2NH-cAMP-Sepharose (7, 16). The homogeneous have been observed in association with a wide variety of met- enzyme prepared by elution with 0.1 mM cGMP in 2% Am- abolic and hormonal perturbations (reviewed in refs. 1 and 2). pholine and 10% glycerol was concentrated to 1 mg/ml. This In many circumstances the cellular levels of cGMP change purified enzyme had a specific activity of 1375 nmol of 32p reciprocally with those of cyclic AMP (cAMP), leading to the incorporated per mg of histone H2b/mg of protein per min. suggestion that these two cyclic nucleotides regulate metabolic Because cGMP-dependent protein kinase was purified by processes in opposite directions-the yin-yang hypothesis (2). competitive elution with cGMP, removal of the nucleotide by Under certain conditions, parallel changes in the concentrations chromatography on Sephadex G-200 or Sephadex G-50 at 300 of the two cyclic nucleotides are observed (3, 4). It has been was required when effects of added cyclic nucleotide were to established in several mammalian systems that cAMP regulates be examined. enzymic activity by phosphorylations catalyzed by cAMP- Hormone-sensitive lipase from chicken adipose tissue was dependent protein kinase (5) and it has been suggested that prepared by the method of Khoo and Steinberg (17) to the pH cGMP may work in an analogous fashion through cGMP- 5.2 precipitate step. The specific activity ranged from 13 to 45 dependent protein kinase (6). The latter enzyme has now been nmol of oleic acid released per mg of protein per hr. Endoge- demonstrated in many tissues (cf. ref. 7) including adipose tissue nous cAMP-dependent protein kinase was inactivated by in- (8). Thus far, however, covalent enzyme modification with cubating the pH 5.2 precipitate fraction (5.2 P fraction) at 500 changes in enzyme activity catalyzed by cGMP-dependent for 20 min in the presence of 10 ,uM cAMP. This heat treatment kinase has not been demonstrated. caused a loss of 40% of the lipase activity. The cAMP was then The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the removed by dialysis and chromatography on Sephadex G-50. payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "adertisement" in accordance with 18 U. S. C. §1734 solely to indicate Abbreviations: cGMP, cyclic GMP; cAMP, cyclic AMP; EGTA, eth- this fact. ylene glycol-bis(,B-aminoethyl ether)-N,N'-tetraacetic acid. 4843 Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021 4844 Biochemistry: Khoo et al. Proc. Nati. Acad. Sci. USA 74 (1977) Table 1. Activation of hormone-sensitive lipase from chicken adipose tissue* Lipase activity, Ratio: act. nmol oleic acid/ with additions/ mg protein act. with Additionst per hr MgATP alone MgATP alone 33 1.0 +cAMP 747 22.6 +cAMP and protein kinase inhibitor 41 1.2 +cGMP 30 0.9 +cGMP-dependent 0 10 20 30 40 50 protein kinase 72 2.2 Protein kinase, units/ml +cGMP and cGMP- FIG. 1. Activation of hormone-sensitive lipase as a function of dependent protein kinase 414 12.5 the concentration of cGMP-dependent protein kinase (0) and +cGMP, cGMP-dependent cAMP-dependent protein kinase (A). The chicken adipose tissue 5.2 protein kinase, and P lipase fraction (75 ,g) was first freed of endogenous cAMP-de- protein kinase inhibitor 515 15.6 pendent protein kinase by heat treatment in the presence of cAMP and then activated at 300 for 10 min under the conditions described * 5.2 P fraction (75 Mg) of chicken adipose tissue hormone-sensitive in Materials and Methods. In some cases, protein kinase inhibitor lipase was incubated with the indicated cofactors for 10 min at 300; (78 Mug/ml) was added to the incubation mixture (@, A). [14C]triolein emulsion was then added and incubation was continued for 30 min at 300. Lipase activity was determined from release of This heat treatment also inactivated endogenous phosphopro- [14C]oleic acid. tein phosphatase. t The concentrations of the cofactors were: Mg(OAc)2, 5 mM; ATP, 0.5 mM; cGMP or cAMP, 10,uM; protein kinase inhibitor, 78 Mug/ml; Enzyme Assay. The conditions for activation, deactivation, and cGMP-dependent protein kinase, 5.3 units/ml. and assay of hormone-sensitive lipase or cholesterol esterase were as described (18, 19). The activation mixture (0.1 ml) contained 5 mM magnesium acetate, 0.5 mM ATP, 10 ,uM alone. Addition of protein kinase inhibitor completely blocked cGMP or cAMP, cGMP- or cAMP-dependent protein kinase this, indicating that the activation was due to endogenous as indicated, 50-150 Mug of 5.2 P fraction, and 20% glycerol/i cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Addition of MgATP and mM EDTA/25 mM Tris, pH 7.4. After incubation at 300 for cGMP alone caused no activation, indicating that the endoge- 10 min, triglyceride lipase activity was assayed by adding 0.7 nous protein kinase of this adipose tissue fraction was not readily ml of an emulsion containing 0.1 mM [14C]triolein, bovine activated by cGMP under these conditions. This is in agreement serum albumin at 5 mg/ml, 2 mM EDTA, and 5 mM sodium with earlier studies in rat adipose tissue showing that, although phosphate (pH 7.0) and incubating for 30 min at 300. Free the Ka for cAMP-stimulated activation of hormone-sensitive [I4C]oleic acid was extracted with chloroform/methanol/ lipase was 1.1 X 10-7 M, significant cGMP-stimulated activa- benzene/water at pH 11.5 (19). Cholesterol esterase was assayed tion was seen only at 1 X 10-4 M (23). by using cholesterol [1-14C]oleate added in ethanol as described Addition of MgATP and cGMP-dependent protein kinase (18). yielded a 2-fold increase in triglyceride lipase activity; with Activation of phosphorylase kinase was carried out in a re- addition of both cGMP-dependent protein kinase and cGMP action mixture of 50 Mul containing 10 mM magnesium acetate, a 12-fold increase was obtained (Table 1).