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Trypanosoma cruzi DNA Polymerase β Is Phosphorylated In Vivo and In Vitro by Protein Kinase C (PKC) and Casein Kinase 2 (CK2)
DNA polymerase β plays a fundamental role in the life cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi since it participates in the kinetoplast DNA repair and replication. This enzyme can be found in two forms in cell extracts of T. cruzi epimastigotes form. The H form is a phosphorylated form of DNA polymerase β, while...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9688435/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36429121 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11223693 |
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author | Maldonado, Edio Rojas, Diego A. Urbina, Fabiola Valenzuela-Pérez, Lucía Castillo, Christian Solari, Aldo |
author_facet | Maldonado, Edio Rojas, Diego A. Urbina, Fabiola Valenzuela-Pérez, Lucía Castillo, Christian Solari, Aldo |
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description | DNA polymerase β plays a fundamental role in the life cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi since it participates in the kinetoplast DNA repair and replication. This enzyme can be found in two forms in cell extracts of T. cruzi epimastigotes form. The H form is a phosphorylated form of DNA polymerase β, while the L form is not phosphorylated. The protein kinases which are able to in vivo phosphorylate DNA polymerase β have not been identified yet. In this work, we purified the H form of this DNA polymerase and identified the phosphorylation sites. DNA polymerase β is in vivo phosphorylated at several amino acid residues including Tyr35, Thr123, Thr137 and Ser286. Thr123 is phosphorylated by casein kinase 2 and Thr137 and Ser286 are phosphorylated by protein kinase C-like enzymes. Protein kinase C encoding genes were identified in T. cruzi, and those genes were cloned, expressed in bacteria and the recombinant protein was purified. It was found that T. cruzi possesses three different protein kinase C-like enzymes named TcPKC1, TcPKC2, and TcPKC3. Both TcPKC1 and TcPKC2 were able to in vitro phosphorylate recombinant DNA polymerase β, and in addition, TcPKC1 gets auto phosphorylated. Those proteins contain several regulatory domains at the N-terminus, which are predicted to bind phosphoinositols, and TcPKC1 contains a lipocalin domain at the C-terminus that might be able to bind free fatty acids. Tyr35 is phosphorylated by an unidentified protein kinase and considering that the T. cruzi genome does not contain Tyr kinase encoding genes, it is probable that Tyr35 could be phosphorylated by a dual protein kinase. Wee1 is a eukaryotic dual protein kinase involved in cell cycle regulation. We identified a Wee1 homolog in T. cruzi and the recombinant kinase was assayed using DNA polymerase β as a substrate. T. cruzi Wee1 was able to in vitro phosphorylate recombinant DNA polymerase β, although we were not able to demonstrate specific phosphorylation on Tyr35. Those results indicate that there exists a cell signaling pathway involving PKC-like kinases in T. cruzi. |
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spelling | pubmed-96884352022-11-25 Trypanosoma cruzi DNA Polymerase β Is Phosphorylated In Vivo and In Vitro by Protein Kinase C (PKC) and Casein Kinase 2 (CK2) Maldonado, Edio Rojas, Diego A. Urbina, Fabiola Valenzuela-Pérez, Lucía Castillo, Christian Solari, Aldo Cells Article DNA polymerase β plays a fundamental role in the life cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi since it participates in the kinetoplast DNA repair and replication. This enzyme can be found in two forms in cell extracts of T. cruzi epimastigotes form. The H form is a phosphorylated form of DNA polymerase β, while the L form is not phosphorylated. The protein kinases which are able to in vivo phosphorylate DNA polymerase β have not been identified yet. In this work, we purified the H form of this DNA polymerase and identified the phosphorylation sites. DNA polymerase β is in vivo phosphorylated at several amino acid residues including Tyr35, Thr123, Thr137 and Ser286. Thr123 is phosphorylated by casein kinase 2 and Thr137 and Ser286 are phosphorylated by protein kinase C-like enzymes. Protein kinase C encoding genes were identified in T. cruzi, and those genes were cloned, expressed in bacteria and the recombinant protein was purified. It was found that T. cruzi possesses three different protein kinase C-like enzymes named TcPKC1, TcPKC2, and TcPKC3. Both TcPKC1 and TcPKC2 were able to in vitro phosphorylate recombinant DNA polymerase β, and in addition, TcPKC1 gets auto phosphorylated. Those proteins contain several regulatory domains at the N-terminus, which are predicted to bind phosphoinositols, and TcPKC1 contains a lipocalin domain at the C-terminus that might be able to bind free fatty acids. Tyr35 is phosphorylated by an unidentified protein kinase and considering that the T. cruzi genome does not contain Tyr kinase encoding genes, it is probable that Tyr35 could be phosphorylated by a dual protein kinase. Wee1 is a eukaryotic dual protein kinase involved in cell cycle regulation. We identified a Wee1 homolog in T. cruzi and the recombinant kinase was assayed using DNA polymerase β as a substrate. T. cruzi Wee1 was able to in vitro phosphorylate recombinant DNA polymerase β, although we were not able to demonstrate specific phosphorylation on Tyr35. Those results indicate that there exists a cell signaling pathway involving PKC-like kinases in T. cruzi. MDPI 2022-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9688435/ /pubmed/36429121 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11223693 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Maldonado, Edio Rojas, Diego A. Urbina, Fabiola Valenzuela-Pérez, Lucía Castillo, Christian Solari, Aldo Trypanosoma cruzi DNA Polymerase β Is Phosphorylated In Vivo and In Vitro by Protein Kinase C (PKC) and Casein Kinase 2 (CK2) |
title | Trypanosoma cruzi DNA Polymerase β Is Phosphorylated In Vivo and In Vitro by Protein Kinase C (PKC) and Casein Kinase 2 (CK2) |
title_full | Trypanosoma cruzi DNA Polymerase β Is Phosphorylated In Vivo and In Vitro by Protein Kinase C (PKC) and Casein Kinase 2 (CK2) |
title_fullStr | Trypanosoma cruzi DNA Polymerase β Is Phosphorylated In Vivo and In Vitro by Protein Kinase C (PKC) and Casein Kinase 2 (CK2) |
title_full_unstemmed | Trypanosoma cruzi DNA Polymerase β Is Phosphorylated In Vivo and In Vitro by Protein Kinase C (PKC) and Casein Kinase 2 (CK2) |
title_short | Trypanosoma cruzi DNA Polymerase β Is Phosphorylated In Vivo and In Vitro by Protein Kinase C (PKC) and Casein Kinase 2 (CK2) |
title_sort | trypanosoma cruzi dna polymerase β is phosphorylated in vivo and in vitro by protein kinase c (pkc) and casein kinase 2 (ck2) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9688435/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36429121 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11223693 |
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