Despite 14‐3‐3 proteins being implicated in the control of the eukaryotic cell cycle, metabolism, cell signalling and survival, little is known about the global regulation or functions of the phosphorylation‐dependent binding of 14‐3‐3s to diverse target proteins. We identified Arabidopsis cytosolic proteins that bound 14‐3‐3s in competition with a 14‐3‐3‐binding phosphopeptide, including nitrate reductase, glyceraldehyde‐ 3‐phosphate dehydrogenase, a calcium‐dependent protein kinase, sucrose‐phosphate synthase (SPS) and glutamyl‐tRNA synthetase. Remarkably, in cells starved of sugars or fed with non‐metabolizable glucose analogues, all 14‐3‐3 binding was lost and the target proteins were selectively cleaved into proteolytic fragments. 14‐3‐3 binding reappeared after several hours of re‐feeding with sugars. Starvation‐induced degradation was blocked by 5‐amino imidazole‐4‐carboxamide riboside (which is converted to an AMP‐mimetic) or the protease inhibitor MG132 (Cbz‐leu‐leu‐leucinal). Extracts of sugar‐starved (but not sugar‐fed) Arabidopsis cells contained an ATP‐independent, MG132‐sensitive, neutral protease that cleaved Arabidopsis SPS, and the mammalian 14‐3‐3‐regulated transcription factor, FKHR. Cleavage of SPS and phosphorylated FKHR in vitro was blocked by binding to 14‐3‐3s. The finding that 14‐3‐3s participate in a nutrient‐sensing pathway controlling cleavage of many targets may underlie the effects of these proteins on plant development.
A cell-free system based on washed Leishmania major membranes was labelled with GDP-[$H]Man in the presence of synthetic glucosaminyl-phosphatidylinositol (GlcN-PI) and N-acetylglucosaminyl-phosphatidylinositol (GlcNAc-PI). In both cases, the major radiolabelled products were Manα1-4GlcNα1-6myo-inositol1-HPO % -(sn-1,2-dipalmitoylglycerol) and Manα1-4GlcNα1-6myo-inositol1-HPO % -(sn-1-palmitoyl-2-lysoglycerol), to which an additional -mannose residue was added when a chase with an excess of GDP-Man was performed. The L. major cell-free system can therefore be used to observe the actions of four enzymes, namely
Unstimulated PC12 pheochromocytoma cells contain many proteins that bound to 14-3-3s in competition with a 14-3-3-binding peptide. Additional proteins, including one of 39 kDa (p39), became capable of binding to 14-3-3s in phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-dependent responses to epidermal growth factor or nerve growth factor in vivo. The growth factor regulation was unaffected by inhibitors of the mitogen- or stress-activated protein kinase pathways, or by glucose starvation, but was blocked by amino acid starvation and only partially blocked by rapamycin. p39 in extracts of unstimulated, nutrient-fed cells, but not nutrient-starved cells, was able to bind to 14-3-3s after phosphorylation by protein kinase B (PKB) in vitro. Nutrient starvation did not affect the growth factor-stimulated activation of PKB in vivo. Either cycloheximide (CHX) or the cysteine protease inhibitor, MG132, restored the responsiveness of p39 to growth factors in nutrient-starved cells. In contrast, MG132 could not replace amino acids in supporting the growth factor-stimulated phosphorylation of two downstream targets of mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin), namely eukaryotic initiation factor 4E binding protein 1 (4E-BP1) and p70 S6 kinase. CHX permitted complete growth factor-stimulated phosphorylation of both 4E-BP1 and p70 S6 kinase in nutrient- starved cells; however, unlike p39, phosphorylation of these proteins was blocked by rapamycin. These findings implicate PKB (or an enzyme with similar specificity) in the growth factor-triggered phosphorylation of p39. In addition, amino acid starvation induces a CHX- and MG132-sensitive pathway that targets p39 and appears to be distinct from the mechanism of regulation of 4E-BP1 and p70 S6 kinase.
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