Role of acidic amino acids in peptide substrates of the .beta.-adrenergic receptor kinase and rhodopsin kinase

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Abstract

The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (beta-ARK) phosphorylates G protein coupled receptors in an agonist-dependent manner. Since the exact sites of receptor phosphorylation by beta-ARK are poorly defined, the identification of substrate amino acids that are critical to phosphorylation by the kinase are also unknown. In this study, a peptide whose sequence is present in a portion of the third intracellular loop region of the human platelet alpha 2-adrenergic receptor is shown to serve as a substrate for beta-ARK. Removal of the negatively charged amino acids surrounding a cluster of serines in this alpha 2-peptide resulted in a complete loss of phosphorylation by the kinase. A family of peptides was synthesized to further study the role of acidic amino acids in peptide substrates of beta-ARK. By kinetic analyses of the phosphorylation reactions, beta-ARK exhibited a marked preference for negatively charged amino acids localized to the NH2-terminal side of a serine or threonine residue. While there were no significant differences between glutamic and aspartic acid residues, serine-containing peptides were 4-fold better substrates than threonine. Comparing a variety of kinases, only rhodopsin kinase and casein kinase II exhibited significant phosphorylation of the acidic peptides. Unlike beta-ARK, RK preferred acid residues localized to the carboxyl-terminal side of the serine. A feature common to beta-ARK and RK was a much greater Km for peptide substrates as compared to that for intact receptor substrates.

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