Abstract：
:The earthworm-derived chemoattractant ES20 interacts with its G-protein-coupled receptors on the plasma membrane of vomeronasal (VN) sensory neurons of garter snakes, resulting in an increase in inositol trisphosphate [J. Biol. Chem. 269 (1994) 16867] and a rapid phosphorylation of the membrane-bound proteins, p42/44 [Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1450 (1999) 320]. The phosphorylation of p42/44 proteins are countervailingly regulated by a protein kinase and an okadaic acid-insensitive but fluoride-sensitive protein phosphatase (PPase) [J. Liu et al. (loc. cit.)]. The phosphorylation of p42/44 induced by ES20 appears to play a role in the regulation of signal transduction pathways by modulating the GTPase activity [J. Liu et al. (loc. cit.)]. A 564-bp fragment of cDNA was obtained from VN RNA of garter snakes by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction with degenerate primers. The 564-bp fragment was amplified, cloned, and sequenced. Northern blot analysis revealed that both the VN organ (VNO) and brain contained the gene of PPase 2C. A full-length complementary 4119-bp DNA containing an open reading frame of 1146bp that encodes a protein of 382 amino acids with a molecular mass of 49,123Da was obtained from the VN cDNA library of garter snakes. The deduced amino acid sequence showed 88% amino acid identity to bovine protein phosphatase 2C alpha and 87% identity to human and rat PP2C alpha and to Mg(2+)-dependent protein phosphatase 1A of rat and rabbit. In situ hybridization revealed that the mRNA of VN protein phosphatase 2C is expressed in the vomeronasal sensory epithelium. This is the first report of the identification of a type 2C serine/threonine protein phosphatase in the VN system.
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Arch Biochem Biophysjournal_title
Archives of biochemistry and biophysicsauthors
Wang D,Liu W,Liu J,Chen P,Quan W,Halpern Mdoi
10.1016/s0003-9861(02)00586-6subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2002-12-15 00:00:00pages
184-91issue
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1096-0384pii
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408pub_type
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