scholarly journals Protein kinase C spatially and temporally regulates gap junctional communication during human wound repair via phosphorylation of connexin43 on serine368

2004 ◽  
Vol 167 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa S. Richards ◽  
Clarence A. Dunn ◽  
William G. Carter ◽  
Marcia L. Usui ◽  
John E. Olerud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Kinase C ◽  
Protein Kinase ◽  
Wound Repair ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Phosphorylation Site ◽  
Primary Human Keratinocytes ◽  
Gap Junctional Communication ◽  
Kinase C ◽  
Junctional Communication ◽  
Gap Junctional

Phosphorylation of connexin43 (Cx43) on serine368 (S368) has been shown to decrease gap junctional communication via a reduction in unitary channel conductance. Examination of phosphoserine368 (pS368) in normal human skin tissue using a phosphorylation site–specific antibody showed relatively even distribution throughout the epidermal layers. However, 24 h after wounding, but not at 6 or 72 h, pS368 levels were dramatically increased in basal keratinocytes and essentially lost from suprabasal layers adjacent to the wound (i.e., within 200 μm of it). Scratch wounding of primary human keratinocytes caused a protein kinase C (PKC)-dependent increase in pS368 in cells adjacent to the scratch, with a time course similar to that found in the wounds. Keratinocytes at the edge of the scratch also transferred dye much less efficiently at 24 h, in a manner dependent on PKC. However, keratinocyte migration to fill the scratch required early (within <6 h) gap junctional communication. Our evidence indicates that PKC-dependent phosphorylation of Cx43 at S368 creates dynamic communication compartments that can temporally and spatially regulate wound healing.

scholarly journals Phorbol ester treatment increases the exocytic rate of the transferrin receptor recycling pathway independent of serine-24 phosphorylation.

1988 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 1061-1066 ◽  
Author(s):  
T E McGraw ◽  
K W Dunn ◽  
F R Maxfield
Keyword(s):  
Protein Kinase C ◽  
Protein Kinase ◽  
Cell Surface ◽  
Phorbol Ester ◽  
Cho Cells ◽  
Transferrin Receptor ◽  
Phosphorylation Site ◽  
Major Protein ◽  
Kinase C ◽  
Recycling Pathway

In Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) fibroblast cells the protein kinase C activating phorbol ester, phorbol myristate acetate (PMA), stimulates an increase in cell surface transferrin receptor (TR) expression by increasing the exocytic rate of the recycling pathway. The human TR expressed in CHO cells is similarly affected by PMA treatment. A mutant human TR in which the major protein kinase C phosphorylation site, serine 24, has been replaced with the non-phosphorylatable amino acid glycine has been constructed to investigate the role of receptor phosphorylation in the PMA induced up-regulation. The Gly-24-substituted receptor binds, internalizes, and recycles Tf. Furthermore, the altered receptor mediates cellular Fe accumulation from diferric-Tf, thereby fulfilling the receptor's major biological role. The Gly-24 TR behaves identically to the wild-type TR when cells are treated with PMA. Therefore, Ser-24 phosphorylation is not required for the PMA-induced redistribution of the human TR expressed in CHO cells. The increased TR expression on the cell surface after PMA treatment results from an increase in the rate of exocytosis of the recycling receptors. No change in the endocytic rate or the size of the recycling receptor pool was observed. These results indicate that the PMA effect on the TR surface expression may result from a more general perturbation of membrane trafficking rather than a specific modulation of the TR.

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