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Molecular and Cellular Biology, July 2000, p. 5285-5299, Vol. 20, No. 14
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The B56alpha Regulatory Subunit of Protein Phosphatase 2A Is a Target for Regulation by Double-Stranded RNA-Dependent Protein Kinase PKR

Zan Xu1,2 and Bryan R. G. Williams1,2,*

Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195,1 and Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 441062

Received 5 October 1999/Returned for modification 16 November 1999/Accepted 14 April 2000

PKR is a cellular serine/threonine kinase that phosphorylates eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2alpha (eIF2alpha ) to regulate protein synthesis. PKR also plays a role in the regulation of transcription, programmed cell death and the cell cycle, processes which likely involve other substrates. In a yeast two-hybrid screen, we isolated human protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) regulatory subunit B56alpha as a PKR-interacting protein. The interaction between B56alpha and PKR was confirmed by in vitro binding assays as well as by in vivo coimmunoprecipitation, and this interaction is dependent on the catalytic activity of PKR. Moreover, recombinant B56alpha was efficiently phosphorylated by PKR in vitro and an isoelectric point shift in B56alpha was detected in extracts from cells induced with the PKR activator pIC. An in vitro dephosphorylation assay showed that when B56alpha was phosphorylated by PKR, the activity of PP2A trimeric holoenzyme was increased. A functional interaction between B56alpha and PKR was observed in cotransfection assays, where a B56alpha -mediated increase in luciferase expression was inhibited by cotransfection with wild-type PKR. This is likely due to a decreased level of eIF4E phosphorylation caused by an increase in PP2A activity following PKR phosphorylation of B56alpha . Taken together, our data indicate that PKR can modulate PP2A activity by phosphorylating B56alpha to regulate cellular activities.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Cancer Biology, NB40 Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44195. Phone: (216) 445-9652. Fax: (216) 444-3164. E-mail: williab{at}ccf.org.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, July 2000, p. 5285-5299, Vol. 20, No. 14
0270-7306/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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