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Analysis of the in vivo phosphorylation state of protein phosphatase inhibitor-2 from rabbit skeletal muscle by fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry

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A new procedure has been developed for identifying phosphoserine residues in proteins, and is used to analyse the in vivo phosphorylation state of inhibitor-2. The method employs reverse-phase liquid chromatography to resolve phosphorylated and dephosphorylated forms of peptides and fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FABMS) to identify phosphorylated derivatives. The positions of phosphorylation sites within peptides are located by gas-phase sequencer analysis after conversion of phosphoserine residues to S-ethylcysteine. The phosphorylation sites on inhibitor-2 were identified as serines-86, -120 and -121, the three residues phosphorylated in vitro by casein kinase-II. Serine-86 was phosphorylated to 0.7 mol/mol and serines-120 and -121 each to 0.3 mol/mol. These values were not altered significantly by intravenous injection of adrenalin or insulin. No phosphate was present in the region comprising residues 1–49, even after injection of adrenalin, demonstrating that inhibitor-2 is not a substrate for cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in vivo. The absence of phosphotyrosine also indicated that inhibitor-2 is not a physiological substrate for the insulin receptor. Surprisingly, no phosphate was present at threonine-72, the residue phosphorylated in vitro by glycogen synthase kinase-3, after injection of either propranolol, adrenalin or insulin. The implications of this finding for the in vivo activation of protein phosphatase 1I (the 1:1 complex between inhibitor-2 and the catalytic subunit of protein phosphatase-1) are discussed. FABMS analysis of inhibitor-2 confirmed the accuracy of the primary structure reported previously, and showed that the only post-translational modifications were an N-acetyl moiety and the three phosphoserine residues. FABMS also demonstrated the presence of an additional serine residue at the C-terminus, and showed that 50% of isolated inhibitor-2 molecules lack the C-terminal Ser-Ser dipeptide.

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