Characterization of a novel giant scaffolding protein, CG-NAP, that anchors multiple signaling enzymes to centrosome and the golgi apparatus

J Biol Chem. 1999 Jun 11;274(24):17267-74. doi: 10.1074/jbc.274.24.17267.

Abstract

A novel 450-kDa coiled-coil protein, CG-NAP (centrosome and Golgi localized PKN-associated protein), was identified as a protein that interacted with the regulatory region of the protein kinase PKN, having a catalytic domain homologous to that of protein kinase C. CG-NAP contains two sets of putative RII (regulatory subunit of protein kinase A)-binding motif. Indeed, CG-NAP tightly bound to RIIalpha in HeLa cells. Furthermore, CG-NAP was coimmunoprecipitated with the catalytic subunit of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), when one of the B subunit of PP2A (PR130) was exogenously expressed in COS7 cells. CG-NAP also interacted with the catalytic subunit of protein phosphatase 1 in HeLa cells. Immunofluorescence analysis of HeLa cells revealed that CG-NAP was localized to centrosome throughout the cell cycle, the midbody at telophase, and the Golgi apparatus at interphase, where a certain population of PKN and RIIalpha were found to be accumulated. These data indicate that CG-NAP serves as a novel scaffolding protein that assembles several protein kinases and phosphatases on centrosome and the Golgi apparatus, where physiological events, such as cell cycle progression and intracellular membrane traffic, may be regulated by phosphorylation state of specific protein substrates.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • A Kinase Anchor Proteins
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing*
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Carrier Proteins / genetics
  • Carrier Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Carrier Proteins / metabolism*
  • Cell Compartmentation
  • Cell Cycle
  • Centrosome / enzymology*
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins*
  • DNA, Complementary / genetics
  • Escherichia coli / genetics
  • Gene Library
  • Golgi Apparatus / enzymology*
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / metabolism*
  • Precipitin Tests
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Kinase C
  • Protein Phosphatase 1
  • Protein Phosphatase 2
  • Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / metabolism*
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / metabolism*
  • Proteins
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Signal Transduction

Substances

  • A Kinase Anchor Proteins
  • AKAP9 protein, human
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • Carrier Proteins
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins
  • DNA, Complementary
  • Proteins
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • protein kinase N
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
  • Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
  • Protein Kinase C
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases
  • Protein Phosphatase 1
  • Protein Phosphatase 2

Associated data

  • GENBANK/AB019691