The phosphorylation of Ser-32, in addition to Ser-36 of H2B histone, stimulated the rate of Pi release from Ser-36 by the small form ( M , 31 000) of pig heart phosphoprotein phosphatase both in the absence and presence of 50 mM magnesium acetate. By phosphorylation at Ser-32, the K, value for Ser-36 phosphate in H2B histone was increased from 0.38 pM to 1.16 pM in the absence of magnesium acetate, but not significantly changed (from 37.4 pM to 26.2 pM) in the presence of magnesium acetate. With the large form ( M , 224000) of the phosphoprotein phosphatase, however, the phosphorylation at Ser-32 suppressed the rate of Pi release from Ser-36 both in the absence and presence of magnesium acetate. The K , value of the large form for Ser-36 phosphate in H2B histone was nevertheless increased by phosphorylation at Ser-32, from 1.2 pM to 5.3 pM in the presence of magnesium acetate, but not changed (from 0.26 pM to 0.23 pM) in the absence of magnesium acetate.Recent investigations [l-81 indicate that a single phosphoprotein phosphatase catalyzes the dephosphorylations of phosphorylase a, glycogen synthetase D, phosphorylase h kinase and other proteins phosphorylated by cyclic-AMP-dependent (adenosine-3' : 5'-monophosphate-dependent) protein kinase. Evidence has also been accumulated that the phosphoprotein phosphatase may be controlled by both covalent and non-covalent modification of the substrate. Namely, AMP, ATP [9,10], glucose 6-phosphate [l 11, polyamine hydrochlorides [12] and other salts, such as NaCl and magnesium acetate [12,13], confer significant changes in enzymatic activity by acting on the substrates in an allosteric manner. Another form of phosphatase control is through changes in the degree of phosphorylation of the substrate. Cohen and Antoniw [14] have reported that the phosphorylation of M subunits of muscle phosphorylase kinase increases the susceptibility of its subunits to the phosphoprotein phosphatase. Hutson et al. [15] the conversion of glycogen synthetase D to I by the phosphatase is stimulated by the second-site phosphorylation on the same subunit of the synthetase by either cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase or independent protein kinase. In a previous paper [8] we described the partial purification of a pig heart phosphoprotein phosphatase (large form, M , 224000) and its conversion to a smaller form (small form, M , 3 1000) by ethanol treatment. These two forms of the phosphoprotein phosphatase preferentially dephosphorylate Ser-36 phosphate of H2B histone which is phosphorylated at both Ser-32 and Ser-36 by cyclic-AMPdependent protein kindse [8].In this paper we will report the effects of the additional phosphorylation of Ser-32 on the dephosphorylation of Ser-36 phosphate in H2B histone. The data will indicate that the activity of enzyme is greatly influenced by the additional phosphorylation, and that the dissociation of the large form of the enzyme to the small form is accompanied by a change in the response of the enzyme to such covalent modification of the substrate.
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