Anti-phosphopeptide antibody, P-STM as a novel tool for detecting mitotic phosphoproteins: Identification of lamins A and C as two major targets

I. Chen Tsai, Ya-Ju Hsieh, Ping Chiang Lyu, Jau Song Yu*

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Abstract

A polyclonal, phospho-epitope-specific antibody (P-STM) was generated to detect the activated p21-activated kinase 2 (PAK2), based on the regulatory autophosphorylation site Thr402 of PAK2 [Yu et al., 1998]. In this report, we show that this antibody can also recognize many phosphoproteins in mitotic HeLa and A431 cells. Signal of these phosphoproteins emerged after treating the cells with nocodazole and okadaic acid, and was highly detected in G2-M phase transition of HeLa cells released from double thymidine block. Immunofluorescence analysis revealed that P-STM strongly stained HeLa cells at prometaphase and metaphase, but not at interphase and anaphase. Interestingly, this staining pattern was almost identical to that obtained by staining with MPM2, a monoclonal antibody known to react with phosphoproteins in mitotic HeLa cells. However, the phosphoproteins detected by the two antibodies are quite different. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DE) and tryptic peptide fingerprint analysis by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry were employed to identify lamins A and C as two of the mitotic cell-specific phosphoproteins recognized by P-STM. Lamins A and C immunoprecipitated from nocodazole-treated cells, but not from untreated cells showed strong reactivity to P-STM, and this reactivity lost completely after protein phosphatase 2A treatment. In summary, our results show that P-STM represents a novel tool for detecting mitotic phosphoproteins, which are different from those recognized by MPM2, and that lamins A and C are the two prominent mitotic phosphoproteins detected by P-STM.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)967-981
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of Cellular Biochemistry
Volume94
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 01 04 2005

Keywords

  • Anti-phosphopeptide antibody
  • Lamins
  • Mitosis
  • Phosphoproteins

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