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  • Title: In vivo effect of sodium orthovanadate on pp60c-src kinase.
    Author: Ryder JW, Gordon JA.
    Journal: Mol Cell Biol; 1987 Mar; 7(3):1139-47. PubMed ID: 2436039.
    Abstract:
    We have compared the tyrosine kinase activity of pp60c-src isolated from intact chicken embryo fibroblasts treated with micromolar sodium orthovanadate for 4 h and from untreated cells. We found an approximate 50% reduction in both autophosphorylation of pp60c-src and phosphorylation of casein when examined in the immune complex kinase assay. The reduction of in vitro enzymatic activity correlated with a vanadate-induced increase in in vivo phosphorylation of pp60c-src at the major site of tyrosine phosphorylation in the carboxyl-terminal half of the molecule and at serine in the amino-terminal half of the molecule. Our observations in vivo and those of Courtneidge in vitro (EMBO J. 4:1471-1477, 1985) suggest that vanadate may enhance a cellular regulatory mechanism that inhibits the activity of pp60c-src in normal cells. A likely candidate for this mechanism is phosphorylation at a tyrosine residue distinct from tyrosine 416, probably tyrosine 527 in the carboxyl-terminal sequence of amino acids unique to pp60c-src. The regulatory role, if any, of serine phosphorylation in pp60c-src remains unclear. The 36-kilodalton phosphoprotein, a substrate of pp60v-src, showed a significant phosphorylation at tyrosine after treatment of normal chicken embryo fibroblasts with vanadate. Assuming that pp60c-src is inhibited intracellularly by vanadate, either another tyrosine kinase is stimulated by vanadate (e.g., a growth factor receptor) or the 36-kilodalton phosphoprotein in normal cells is no longer rapidly dephosphorylated by a tyrosine phosphatase in the presence of vanadate.
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