Effect of cis-unsaturated fatty acids on aortic protein kinase C activity
- 15 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 258 (1), 171-175
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj2580171
Abstract
Long-chain cis-unsaturated fatty acids could substitute for phosphatidylserine and activate bovine aortic protein kinase C in assays with histone as substrate. The optimal concentration was 24-40 .mu.M for oleic, linoleic and arachidonic acids. With arachidonic acid, the Ka for Ca2+ was 130 .mu.M and kinase activity was maximal at 0.5 mM-Ca2+. Diolein only slightly activated the oleic acid-stimulated enzyme at low physiological Ca2+ concentrations (0.1 and 10 .mu.M). Oleic acid also stimulated kinase C activity, determined with a Triton X-100 mixed-micellar assay. Under these conditions, the fatty acid activation was absolutely dependent on the presence of diolein, but a Ca2+ concentration of 0.5 mM was still required for maximum kinase C activity. The effect of fatty acids on protein kinase C activity was also investigated with the platelet protein P47 as a substrate, since the properties of kinase C can be influenced by the choice of substrate. In contrast with the results with histone, fatty acids did not stimulate the phosphorylation of P47 by the aortic protein kinase C. Activation of protein kinase C by fatty acids may allows the selective phosphorylation of substrates, but the physiological significance of fatty acid activation is questionable because of the requirement for high concentrations of Ca2+.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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