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A B Sprenkle1, S P Davies, D Carling
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908, USA.
Abstract:
Raf-1 is extensively phosphorylated on Ser621 in both quiescent and mitogen-stimulated cells. To identify the responsible kinase(s), cytosolic fractions of NIH 3T3 cells were analyzed for Ser621 peptide kinase activity. One major peak of activity was detected and identified as AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) by immunodepletion experiments. AMPK phosphorylated the catalytic domain of Raf-1, expressed in Escherichia coli as a soluble GST fusion protein, to generate a single tryptic [32P]phosphopeptide containing exclusively phospho-Ser621. AMPK also phosphorylated full-length, kinase-defective Raf-1 (K375M) to generate two [32P]phosphopeptides, one co-migrating with synthetic tryptic peptide containing phospho-Ser621 and the other with phospho-Ser259.
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