Quantitation of protein kinase C by immunoblot—expression in different cell lines and response to phorbol esters
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Cellular Physiology
- Vol. 130 (1), 111-117
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.1041300116
Abstract
Antisera have been raised against human protein kinase C and also against a synthetic peptide based on the sequence of the bovine brain enzyme (LLNQEE-GEYYNVPIPE). These antibodies react with protein kinase C from a number of species (human, murine, rat, rabbit, bovine), indicating substantial conservation of epitopes. These antisera have been used to quantitate directly protein kinase C by immunoblot analysis. We show here that there is a strict correlation between the leveis of immunoreactive polypeptide and extractable calcium- and phospholipid-dependent kinase activity for various cell lines. Treatment of murine, rat, and human cells with phorbol dibutyrate was found to deplete levels of immunoreactive protein kinase C severely. A detailed study of the time course of this depletion in Swiss 3T3 cells shows that it follows precisely the loss of extractable activity. On exposure to 400 nM phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate protein kinase C was essentially undetectable by 40 hours; the half-life of this down-regulation was 6.7 hours. This data thus demonstrate that the loss of immunoreactive protein kinase C and of extractable calcium- and phospholipid-dependent kinase activity precisely parallels the phorbol ester induced down-regulation of binding and responsiveness in Swiss 3T3 cells.Keywords
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