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Persistent Activation of cGMP-dependent Protein Kinase by a Nitrated Cyclic Nucleotide Via Site-specific Protein S-Guanylation Soichiro Akashi, Khandaker Ahtesham Ahmed, Tomohiro Sawa, Katsuhiko Ono, Hiroyasu Tsutsuki, Joseph R Burgoyne, Tomoaki Ida, Eiji Horio, Oleksandra Prysyazhna, Yuichi Oike, Mizanur Md. Rahaman, Philip Eaton, Shigemoto Fujii, and Takaaki Akaike Biochemistry, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00774 • Publication Date (Web): 19 Jan 2016 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 24, 2016

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Persistent Activation of cGMP-dependent Protein Kinase by a Nitrated Cyclic Nucleotide Via Site-specific Protein S-Guanylation

Soichiro Akashi§1, Khandaker Ahtesham Ahmed‡1,2, Tomohiro Sawa‡¶*, Katsuhiko Ono‡, Hiroyasu Tsutsuki‡, Joseph R. Burgoyne†, Tomoaki Ida§, Eiji Horio‖, Oleksandra Prysyazhna†, Yuichi Oike‖, Mizanur Md. Rahaman§, Philip Eaton†, Shigemoto Fujii§, and Takaaki Akaike§

From the §Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Molecular Toxicology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan ‡

Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University,

1-1-1 Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan ¶

Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and

Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan †

Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Division, King’s College London, The Rayne

Institute, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, UK ‖

Department of Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto

University, Honjo 1-1-1, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan

*To whom correspondence should be addressed: Professor Tomohiro Sawa, Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University,, 1-1-1 Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan.

E mail: [email protected]

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Present address: Institute for Research and Medical Consultation, University of Dammam,

Dammam 1982-31441, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Funding This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a Proposed Area) from the Ministry of Education, Sciences, Sports and Technology, Japan; a grant from the Japan Science and Technology Agency Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology program; and a Grants-in-Aid from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellows; The Naito Foundation.

ABBREVIATIONS 8-AET-cGMP, 8-(2-aminoethyl)thioguanosine-cGMP; 8-bromo-cGMP, 8-bromoguanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate; 8-nitro-cGMP, 8-nitroguanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate; DTT, dithiothreitol; ESI, electrospray ionization; iNOS, inducible isoform of NO synthase; LC, liquid chromatography; MLC, myosin light chain; MS/MS, tandem mass spectrometry; PDE, phosphodiesterase; PKG, cGMP-dependent protein kinase; RNOS, reactive nitrogen oxide species; ROS, reactive oxygen species; Rp-8-bromo-cGMPS, 8-bromoguanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphorothioate, Rp-isomer; RP, reverse phase; sGC, soluble guanylate cyclase; TOF, time-of-flight; VASP, vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein.


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ABSTRACT 8-Nitroguanosine 3′ ′,5′ ′-cyclic monophosphate (8-nitro-cGMP) is a nitrated derivative of guanosine 3′ ′,5′ ′-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) formed endogenously under conditions associated with production of both reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide. It acts as an electrophilic second messenger in regulation of cellular signaling by inducing a post-translational modification of redox-sensitive protein thiols via covalent adduction of cGMP moieties to protein thiols (protein S-guanylation).

Here, we

demonstrate that 8-nitro-cGMP potentially S-guanylates thiol groups of cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG), the enzyme that serves as one of the major receptor proteins for intracellular cGMP and controls a variety of cellular responses. S-Guanylation of PKG was found to occur in site specific manner; Cys42 and Cys195 were the susceptible residues among 11 Cys residues.

Importantly, S-guanylation at

Cys195, which locates in high affinity cGMP binding domain of PKG, causes persistent enzyme activation as determined by in vitro kinase assay as well as by organ bath assay. In vivo, S-guanylation of PKG was demonstrated to occur in mice without any specific treatment, and was significantly enhanced by lipopolysaccharide administration. These findings warrant further investigation for physiological and pathophysiological roles of S-guanylation-dependent persistent PKG activation.


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Accumulating evidence has emerged that ROS act as signaling molecules to regulate diverse cellular events such as cell proliferation, apoptosis, and senescence.1-6

ROS can directly

react with redox-sensitive protein thiols to cause oxidative modifications including the formation of sulfenic acid (-SOH) and disulfide (-S-S-) bonding in proteins.5,7,8

Those

redox-dependent post-translational modifications (PTMs) of protein thiols are involved in regulation of ROS signaling by affecting protein structures and functions via multiple mechanisms such as activation/inactivation of enzymes, modulation of protein-protein interactions, alteration of protein localization, and so forth.7,8 ROS react with cellular components to produce chemically reactive electrophilic metabolites such as lipid peroxidation products and nitrated fatty acids.4 Those electrophiles act as second messengers for ROS signaling via induction of alkylation of redox-sensitive protein thiols.4,6,8-11

Environmental as well as food-derived electrophiles also cause alkylation of

redox-sensitive proteins, hence, resulting in modifications of endogenous ROS signaling.6 8-Nitroguanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (8-nitro-cGMP) is the first identified endogenous derivative of guanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) formed under production of both ROS and nitric oxide (NO).9,12-15

Owing to its electron withdrawing

nature of aromatic nitro-compounds, 8-nitro-cGMP functions as an electrophile and causes alkylation of redox-sensitive protein thiols.9,12,13 This PTM is called “protein S-guanylation”.9,12,13 In the reaction of S-guanylation, the nitro group of 8-nitro-cGMP is replaced by a thiol group of cysteine residues, with the release of nitrite ion, resulting in the formation of irreversible cGMP adducts.

Our previous studies revealed that 8-nitro-cGMP

modulates diverse ROS signaling pathways by acting as a ROS second messenger, depending on the S-guanylation targets.

For instance, 8-nitro-cGMP is capable of inducing antioxidant

gene expression, cellular senescence, and mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening, via S-guanylation of Keap112,14, H-Ras16, and mitochondrial heat shock proteins17. cGMP-dependent protein kinases, also commonly called protein kinase G (PKG), are kinases which phosphorylate a variety of substrate proteins such as PKGs themselves, myosin phosphatase small regulatory subunit, phosphodiesterases (PDEs), and vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP).18

Phosphorylation of those substrates induces diverse cellular

signaling, resulting in regulation of a variety of tissue responses ranging from smooth muscle relaxation, neuronal synaptic plasticity, to platelet functions.

In the resting state, catalytic


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site of PKG is covered by autoinhibitory domain that acts as pseudosubstrate to limit the access of substrate proteins.19

The binding of cGMP to PKG results in a conformational

change in structure that exposes the catalytic site, leading to increased substrate phosphorylation.

This type of PKG activation is referred to as a cGMP-dependent

mechanism for PKG activation.

Alternatively, thiol oxidation caused by oxidants such as

hydrogen peroxide and transition metals leads to enzyme activation even in the absence of cGMP.20,21 In this mechanism, oxidizing agents induce inter- or intra-subunit disulfide formation in PKG, resulting in conformational change leading increased catalytic activity independently of cGMP.

For hydrogen peroxide-induced PKG1α activation, Cys42

participates to inter-subunit disulfide formation.21

These notions suggest that PKG

activation may be controlled in stimuli-dependent manner. We previously found that 8-nitro-cGMP activated PKG in vitro.12,16

Because

8-nitro-cGMP can behave as a cGMP derivative, it may activate PKG via cGMP-dependent mechanism. activation.

Alternatively, thiol modifications of PKG by 8-nitro-cGMP may affect enzyme To clarify molecular mechanisms how 8-nitro-cGMP activate PKG, we

investigated the interaction between 8-nitro-cGMP and PKG during enzyme activation, particularly focusing on the occurrence of PKG S-guanylation.

Roles of PKG S-guanylation

on enzyme activation were determined by means of in vitro kinase assay.

Effects of

8-nitro-cGMP on vascular response, one of major biological responses associated with PKG activation, was examined by means of organ bath assay.

We also tried to verify whether

PKG could be the target for S-guanylation in vivo.

MATERIALS AND METHODS Materials. 8-Nitro-cGMP was prepared according to the method previously reported.12,14 8-Bromoguanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (8-bromo-cGMP), cGMP, and LPS from Escherichia coli 0111:B4 were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (Saint Louis, MO).

8-Bromoguanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphorothioate, Rp-isomer

(Rp-8-bromo-cGMPS), was purchased from BioLog (Bremen, Germany). was from Nacalai Tesque (Kyoto, Japan).

Phenylephrine

Recombinant human PKG1α and PKG1β

(N-terminal 6His-tagged, recombinant, full-length PKG1α and PKG1β, expressed by baculovirus in the Sf21 insect cell line) was from Merck Millipore (Billerica, MA).


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Isotope-labeled 8-nitro-cGMP (8-15NO2-cGMP) and cGMP (c[15N5]GMP) were prepared as reported previously.12,14

Other reagents were of the highest grade commercially available

and were used without further purification.

Rabbit polyclonal antibody specific for protein

S-guanylation was generated as described previously.12,14 Preparation of Recombinant PKG. Recombinant human PKG1α was expressed by using the BacPAK Baculovirus Expression System (Clontech, Mountain View, CA). The plasmid pBacPAK9-FLAG PKG1α with N-terminal FLAG was constructed by subcloning the PCR fragment containing the FLAG PKG1α region amplified from pAdTrack-CMV-FLAG PKG1α.21

The Cys-to-Ser mutants of PKG1α (C42S, C195S,

C42S/C195S) were constructed via PCR mutagenesis from pBacPAK9-FLAG PKG1α. The sf21 cells were co-infected with mutant FLAG-tagged PKG1α plasmids and BacPAK6 viral DNA, and these cells were cultured in BacPAK complete medium (Clontech) at 27 °C for 5 h. Fresh BacPAK complete medium was added at 5 h, and incubation continued for another 72 h at 27 °C. The culture supernatant, which contained recombinant PKG1α-expressing virus, was then harvested.

After isolation of the recombinant PKG1α-expressing virus by means

of the plaque assay, sf21 cells were infected with isolated recombinant PKG1α-expressing virus and were cultured for 60 h. were sonicated.

Virus-infected sf21 cells were collected with PBS and

Cell lysates were mixed with anti-FLAG M2 affinity gel (Sigma-Aldrich)

and were then washed with PBS three times.

Recombinant PKG1α proteins were eluted by

using 3X FLAG peptide solution (Sigma-Aldrich). In Vitro S-Guanylation of PKG1α α by 8-Nitro-cGMP. PKG1α (100 ng) was reacted with 8-nitro-cGMP in 100 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4) at 37 °C.

In separate experiments,

PKG1α was preincubated with 100 µM Rp-8-bromo-cGMPS for 30 min, followed by reaction with 200 µM 8-nitro-cGMP.

The resultant protein preparations were subjected to

Western blotting and liquid chromatography (LC)-time-of-flight (TOF)-tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) analyses, as described below.

To identify the S-guanylation sites,

wild-type and Cys mutants of recombinant PKG1α were reacted with 200 µM 8-nitro-cGMP in 100 mM Tris-HCl buffer (pH 8.4) at 37 °C for 180 min.

In separate experiments, PKG1α

was reacted with 8-nitro-cGMP in the presence of 10 mM dithiothreitol (DTT) in 100 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4) at 37 °C.


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Western Blotting. Proteins were separated by using SDS-PAGE and were then transferred to a PVDF membrane.

Blots were blocked with 5% nonfat skim milk followed

by incubation with one of the following antibodies: anti-S-guanylation12,14, anti-PKG (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Dallas, TX), anti-iNOS (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA), anti-β-actin (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), anti-phospho-VASP (Cell Signaling Technology), anti-VASP (Alexis Biochemicals), or anti-GAPDH (Santa Cruz Biotechnology).

After incubation of

the samples with adequate second antibodies conjugated with HRP, immunoreactive bands were detected by using a chemiluminescence reagent (ECL Plus; GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences Corp., Piscataway, NJ) with a luminescent image analyzer (LAS1000UV; Fujifilm, Tokyo, Japan.).

For quantification of immunoreactive bands, densitometric

analyses were performed with the signal intensity of Western blotting images measured by using Image J software (National Institute of Health, USA). In Vitro Kinase Assay. PKG kinase activity was measured according to the literature.16 Briefly, 1 µg/ml PKG1α (Millipore) or the Cys mutants C42S or C195S or the C42S/C195S double mutant was incubated with cGMP or 8-nitro-cGMP at different concentrations in 20 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4) containing 16 mM MgCl2, 10 mM DTT, 0.1 mM ATP, and 60 µM Glasstide (Merck Millipore) at 37 °C for 30 min, followed by kinase activity determination with the ADP-Glo Kinase assay kit (Promega, Madison, WI) according to the manufacturer’s protocol.

Non-linear regression isotherm and Hill plot analyses were performed to

determine Hill coefficient using GraphPad Prism 6.0. In separate experiments, unbound free cGMP derivatives were separated from active PKG1α mixtures by using ultracentrifugation tubes (Ultra Centricon, cutoff of 30 kDa, Millipore).

In brief, after reacting PKG1α solutions with cGMP derivatives, they were

added to the ultracentrifugation tubes with 0.1% bovine serum albumin in 100 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4) to avoid nonspecific absorption of the enzyme to the tubes.

PKG1α solutions were

then subjected to ultrafiltration with repeated washing (six times) with 0.1% bovine serum albumin in 100 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4) to remove unbound cGMP derivatives (10,000 × g for 10 min, 4 °C).

Finally, PKG1α was recovered from the filter membranes by adding 50 µl of

100 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4) and was then used for the kinase assay.

Protein recovery after

desaltation was confirmed by means of Western blotting against PKG.

Amounts of PKG

subjected for enzyme assay were then adjusted based on the band intensities.


To minimize

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the error range of the determined kinase activities, these assays were performed in the same day. Animal Study. C57BL/6 mice (male, 8 weeks old) were purchased from Kyudo Co. Ltd., (Tosu, Japan).

The animals were maintained and the experiments were conducted according

to the guidelines in the Laboratory Protocol of Animal Handling, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

For the endotoxin shock model, mice were injected

i.p. with E. coli LPS at a dose of 32 mg/kg. Myography. Vascular rings (5 mm) were isolated from the thoracic aorta of the mice and were mounted in a tension myograph (Model MTOB-2Z, Lab Support, Suita, Japan), stretched to the optimal pretension conditions of 1.0 g.

The aortic rings were bathed in

Krebs-Henseleit buffer, pH 7.6 (118.4 mM NaCl, 4.7 mM KCl, 1.2 mM MgSO4, 1.2 mM KH2PO4, 2.5 mM CaCl2, 25 mM NaHCO3, 10 mM glucose), maintained in 37 °C, and gassed with 95% O2 and 5% CO2.

Vasotone measurements of the aortic rings were made

essentially as described previously21,22, by determining the responses of phenylephrine-contracted vessels to a number of agents.

The aortic vessels were treated

with 8-nitro-cGMP (200 µM) or 8-bromo-cGMP (200 µM) for 2 h followed by monitoring of the vasoconstrictive response to phenylephrine with or without washing the organ bath with Krebs-Henseleit buffer.

These vasoconstrictive responses were then recorded by using a

force transducer data acquisition system (PowerLab, Chart v5, ADInstruments, Colorado Springs, CO). LC-Electrospray Ionization (ESI)-QQQ-MS/MS Quantitation of 8-Nitro-cGMP. The human monocytic cell line, THP-1 cells (4.0 × 106 cells) were incubated with 10 µM 8-nitro-cGMP in DMEM at 37°C for 30 min.

Cells were then washed with PBS and

collected and homogenized in 1 ml of ice-cold methanol containing 2% acetic acid.

After

the homogenate samples were centrifuged at 10,000 × g at 4 °C for 10 min, the resultant supernatants were subjected to solid-phase purification of cGMP derivatives with the Oasis WAX cartridge (Waters, Milford, MA).

After the cartridge was washed with methanol,

cGMP derivatives were collected in the eluate with 1 ml of methanol containing 15% aqueous ammonia.

Eluted samples were dried in vacuo and then redissolved in distilled

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LC-ESI-QQQ-MS/MS.

LC-ESI-QQQ-MS/MS was performed with an Agilent 6430 Triple

Quadrupole LC/MS system (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA), after reverse-phase (RP)-HPLC on a YMC-Triart C18 column (50 × 2.0 mm inner diameter; YMC Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan), with a linear 1-60% methanol gradient for 12 min in 0.1% formic acid at 40 °C. The total flow rate was 0.2 ml/min, and the injection volume was 50 µl.

Ionization

was achieved by using electrospray in the positive mode, with the spray voltage set at 4000 V. Nitrogen was the nebulizer gas, and the nebulizer pressure was set at 50 psi.

The

desolvation gas (nitrogen) was heated to 350 °C and was delivered at a flow rate of 10 L/min. For collision-induced dissociation, high-purity nitrogen was the collision gas at a pressure of 0.05 MPa. cGMP derivatives were quantified by using the multiple-reaction monitoring mode as reported previously.19

The peak widths of precursors and product ions were

maintained at 0.7 atomic mass unit at unit-unit resolution in the multiple-reaction monitoring mode.

Isotope-labeled 8-15NO2-cGMP and c[15N5]GMP (final concentration of each: 200

nM) were used as internal standards. Intracellular concentrations of 8-nitro-cGMP were calculated by dividing total amount of 8-nitro-cGMP detected with free cytoplasmic volume as mentioned below.

According to the

literature, up to half the volume of the cell is occupied by membrane-bounded organelles including nucleus, so that remaining 50% corresponds to free volume available to reactants diffusing in the cytoplasm.23

For 4.0 × 106 of THP-1 cells, free cytoplasmic volume was

estimated to be 6 µl. Determination of Partition Coefficient for cGMP Derivatives. The octanol/water partition coefficients (logPo/w) of cGMP derivatives were determined by shake-flask method.25 octanol.

Aqueous media (20 mM Tris-HCl [pH7.4] or 0.1 M HCl) were pre-saturated with Similarly, octanol was pre-saturated with the aqueous media.

Aqueous media

containing 100 µM cGMP derivatives were mixed with equal volume of octanol, then shake vigorously by using tube shaker (Bio Shaker M-BR-022UP; Taitec, Saitama, Japan) at 25 °C for 1 h.

After centrifuged at 10,000 × g at 25 °C for 2 min, octanol phase was collected and

diluted 100 times by 0.1 % formic acid.

The concentrations of 8-nitro-cGMP in octanol

phase (Co) were determined by means of LC-MS/MS as mentioned above. calculated using the following equation:


LogPo/w were

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logPo/w = log Co/Cw = log Co/(100 µM – Co)

Isolation of PKG from Mouse Heart Tissues by Using cGMP-immobilized Agarose. To study the endogenous S-guanylation of PKG1α, we purified PKG1α from heart tissues of control and LPS-treated mice via the cGMP-agarose pulldown method with 8-(2-aminoethyl)thioguanosine-cGMP-agarose (8-AET-cGMP-Agarose) (BioLog) performed before Western blot analysis.26

Mouse heart homogenates (5 mg) were incubated with

8-AET-cGMP-Agarose for 2 h at 4 °C under rotation.

Nonspecifically bound proteins were

removed by rinsing three times with a wash buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.4, 50 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 5 mM sodium pyrophosphate, 1% Triton X-100), followed by boiling in SDS sample buffer at 95 °C for 5 min. cGMP-binding proteins were then separated by using SDS-PAGE followed by Western blot or proteomic analysis as mentioned below. Proteomic Analysis to Identify Proteins and Determine S-Guanylation Sites. Coomassie Brilliant Blue- or silver-stained gels were subjected to in-gel digestion, followed by peptide extraction and then proteomic analysis by means of LC-TOF-MS/MS. digestion and peptide extraction were performed according to the literature.27

In-gel

For

identification of S-guanylation sites, S-guanylated peptides were enriched by using immunoaffinity columns as described previously.16,17

These enriched peptide samples were

analyzed in an ESI-Q-TOF tandem mass spectrometer (6510; Agilent Technologies) with an HPLC chip-MS system comprising a nano pump (G2226; Agilent Technologies) with a four-channel microvacuum degasser (G1379B; Agilent Technologies), a microfluidic chip cube (G4240; Agilent Technologies), a capillary pump (G1376A; Agilent Technologies) with degasser (G1379B; Agilent Technologies), and an autosampler with thermostat (G1377A; Agilent Technologies).

MassHunter software (version B.02.00; Agilent Technologies) was

used to control all modules.

A microfluidic RP-HPLC chip (Zorbax 300SB-C18; 5 µm

particle size, 75 mm inner diameter, and 43 mm length) was used for peptide separation. Gradient nano flow at 600 nl/min was generated via the nano pump, with the mobile phase of 0.1% formic acid in MS-grade water (solvent A) and 0.1% formic acid in acetonitrile (solvent B).

The gradient was 5-75% solvent B in 9 min.

A capillary pump was used for loading

samples, at 4 µl/min, with a mobile phase of 0.1% formic acid.

The Agilent ESI-Q-TOF

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being 1850 V and the fragmentor voltage being 175 V at 300 °C.

Protonated molecular ions

were fragmented in the auto-MS/MS mode, starting with a collision energy voltage of 3 V that was increased by 3.7 V per 100 Da.

The m/z ranges selected were 300-2400 Da in the

MS mode and 59-3000 Da in the MS/MS mode.

The data output was one full mass

spectrum, with three fragmentation patterns per mass spectrum, every 250 ms.

The three

highest peaks of an MS spectrum were chosen for fragmentation. Mass lists as Mascot generic files were created and used as the input for Mascot MS/MS ion searches of the National Center for Biotechnology Information nonredundant (NCBI nr) database via the Matrix Science Web server Mascot version 2.2.

The default search

parameters used were the following: enzyme, trypsin; maximum missed cleavage, 1; variable modifications, carbamidomethyl (Cys) and cGMP (Cys); peptide tolerance ± 1.2 Da; MS/MS tolerance ± 1.2 Da; peptide charge, 2+ and 3+; instrument, ESI-Q-TOF.

For positive

identification, the resultant score of [-10 × log(P)] had to be lower than the significance threshold level (p < 0.05). Phosphorylation of VASP in Mouse Heart Tissues. Phosphorylation of VASP was analyzed as an index of PKG activation.

At 12 h after the LPS injection, mouse heart

tissues were collected and homogenized in 15 volumes of buffer containing 50 mM HEPES (pH 7.4), 1% Triton X-100, 10% glycerol, 150 mM NaCl, 1.5 mM MgCl2, 1 mM EGTA, 50 mM NaF, 1 mM Na3VO4, and protease inhibitor cocktail (cOmplete, Mini, EDTA-free; Roche).

After incubation for 30 min on ice, the resulting homogenate was centrifuged at

10,000 × g at 4 °C for 30 min to allow sedimentation of tissue debris.

Supernatants (10 µg

of protein each) were subjected to Western blotting for phosphorylation of VASP. The same blots were analyzed with the antibodies anti-VASP to determine the total VASP. Statistical Analysis. All data are given as means ± S.D.

Data for each experimental

condition were acquired from at least three separate experiments.

Student’s t test was used

for statistical analyses.

RESULTS Analysis of PKG S-Guanylation in vitro. We first examined whether S-guanylation of PKG occurs or not during the reaction between 8-nitro-cGMP and PKG in vitro by means of Western blotting.

As shown in Fig. 1A and B, 8-nitro-cGMP treatment clearly induced

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was clearly detected in the presence of excess amount of reducing agent 10 mM DTT (Fig. 1C).

On the other hand, PKG1α S-guanylation was partly inhibited in the presence of a

cGMP analogue Rp-8-bromo-cGMPS (Fig. 1D).

PKG1β, another isoform of PKG1, was

also effectively S-guanylated by 8-nitro-cGMP (Fig. 1E). The sites of S-guanylation in PKG1α was then analyzed. PKG1α was subjected for trypsin digestion.

8-Nitro-cGMP-treated

Peptides bearing S-guanylated cysteine

residues were enriched by affinity chromatography, followed by analyzing their amino acid sequences by tandem mass spectrometry combined with MASCOT database search.

As Fig.

2A shows, two peptides bearing the Cys residues Cys42 and Cys195 were determined to be S-guanylated.

Mass fragmentation patters for those peptides were shown in Supplemental

Tables S1 and S2.

Although PKG1α contains 11 Cys residues, no S-guanylated peptides

except for Cys42 and Cys195 were detected. The S-guanylation sites of PKG1α were further verified by using Cys to Ser mutants positioned at Cys42 (C42S), at Cys195 (C195S), and at both Cys42 and Cys195 (C42S/C195S).

As Fig. 2B clearly illustrates, S-guanylation of PKG1α was markedly

suppressed in the single mutants (C42S, C195S), and S-guanylation signal was decreased to undetectable level in the double mutant C42S/C195S.

Collectively, these data indicate that

S-guanylation occurs selectively at positions of Cys42 and Cys195 among the 11 Cys residues in PKG1α (Fig. 2C). Effects of S-guanylation on PKG Activity. We next performed in vitro kinase assay using recombinant PKGs with or without cysteine residue mutations to clarify the effects of S-guanylation on enzyme activity.

In consistent with our previous findings, 8-nitro-cGMP

was capable of activating wild-type PKG to a similar extent to that caused by native cGMP (Fig. 3A and B).

Apparent kinase activation constants (Ka) were determined to be 110 ± 5

nM and 119 ± 3 nM for native cGMP and 8-nitro-cGMP, respectively.

Non-linear

regression isotherm analyses suggest that both cGMP and 8-nitro-cGMP had Hill coefficient larger than 1, indicating positively cooperative binding towards PKG (Supplementary Fig. S3). It is noteworthy that significant difference between native cGMP and 8-nitro-cGMP was observed when enzyme activity was determined after removal of unbound cGMP and 8-nitro-cGMP from reaction mixtures.

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activated PKG1α in a similar extent to that by native cGMP.

However, significantly higher

enzyme activation was determined for 8-nitro-cGMP-treated PKG after desaltation (Fig. 3C, lower panel).

This result suggests that interaction between PKG1α and cGMP depended on

the binding equilibrium, and thus cGMP would dissociate reversibly from PKG1α during desaltation.

In contrast, interaction between PKG1α and 8-nitro-cGMP was not

significantly affected by desaltation possibly due to the formation of stable S-guanylation modification.

In order to clarify whether irreversible activation of PKG by 8-nitro-cGMP is

attributable to S-guanylation or not, enzyme activation was analyzed with wild-type as well as Cys mutants of PKG1α.

As Fig. 3D shows, activation of the C42S mutant by

8-nitro-cGMP remained intact even after desaltation, similar to the effect observed for wild-type PKG1α.

In contrast, the C195S mutant as well as the C42S/C195S double mutant

became sensitive to desaltation in 8-nitro-cGMP-mediated enzyme activation.

These data

strongly suggest that S-guanylation occurring at Cys195 leads to irreversible PKG1α activation caused by 8-nitro-cGMP. Effects of 8-Nitro-cGMP on Vascular Responses against Vasoconstrictor Treatment. It has been well recognized that cGMP-PKG signal plays an important role in regulation of vascular tone via induction of smooth muscle relaxation.

Thus, we hypothesized that

8-nitro-cGMP can induce different vascular responses than cGMP does because of S-guanylation-dependent persistent activation of PKG.

To test this hypothesis, we

investigated the effects of 8-nitro-cGMP on the vascular response to the vasoconstrictor phenylephrine by means of an organ bath assay and mouse aortic rings ex vivo. 8-Bromo-cGMP was used as a membrane-permeable and PDE-resistant cGMP analogue instead of native cGMP. Because of hydrophobic nature of 8-nitro-cGMP as suggested by its logPo/w value (Supplemental Table S3), we first measured whether 8-nitro-cGMP penetrate cell membrane upon extracellular addition of 8-nitro-cGMP using cultured cells.

We found that, when

human monocyte-like THP-1 cells were treated with 10 µM 8-nitro-cGMP for 30 min, intracellular 8-nitro-cGMP was determined to be 104.3 ± 39.8 nM. abundant cellular thiol that affect 8-nitro-cGMP stability in cells.

Glutathione is the most Our in vitro study

suggested that even after incubation of 1 µM 8-nitro-cGMP with 1,000 times excess glutathione (1 mM) in neutral pH buffer at 37 °C for 2 h, approximately 50% of


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8-nitro-cGMP was remained in the reaction solution (Supplemental Fig. S5).

We further

examined whether 8-nitro-cGMP was stably detected in aortic rings upon exposure to exogenously added 8-nitro-cGMP. 8-nitro-cGMP in aortic rings.

As shown in new Supplemental Fig. S5, we could detect

8-Nitro-cGMP in aortic rings S-guanylates tissue proteins as

suggested by Western blotting (Supplemental Fig. S6). We then investigated the effects of 8-nitro-cGMP treatment on vascular responses. Under the condition, 8-nitro-cGMP treatment induced a marked reduction of phenylephrine-dependent vasocontraction of the mouse aorta (Fig. 4A, upper panel). Vascular hyporesponsiveness induced by 8-nitro-cGMP was clearly detected even after removal of 8-nitro-cGMP from the organ bath by washing the aorta with Krebs-Henseleit buffer (Fig. 4A, lower panel).

As seen in Fig. 4B (upper panel), 8-bromo-cGMP treatment

also reduced phenylephrine-dependent vasocontraction of the aorta when 8-bromo-cGMP was added during the assay.

However, in sharp contrast to 8-nitro-cGMP, the effects of

8-bromo-cGMP were completely nullified by removal of 8-bromo-cGMP from the assay medium (Fig. 4B, lower panel).

These data suggest that 8-nitro-cGMP shows prolonged

biological responses against vasculature, possibly via persistent activation of PKG by S-guanylation. Occurrence of PKG S-guanylation in vivo and their augmentation with LPS treatment. We finally investigated the occurrence of PKG S-guanylation in vivo.

Our

previous findings showed that formation of 8-nitro-cGMP requires production of both ROS and NO. route.

To induce in vivo production of ROS and NO, mice were administered LPS via i.p.

With the current LPS treatment protocol, significant iNOS expression in mouse heart

appeared 6 h after LPS treatment, and the iNOS expression level gradually increased until 12 h (Fig. 5A). Western blotting analyses revealed that LPS treatment increased the levels of protein S-guanylation in heart tissues (Fig. 5B). We therefore investigated whether S-guanylation of PKG was also enhanced by LPS treatment.

cGMP-immobilized-agarose gels were used to

extract cGMP-binding proteins including PKG from mouse heart homogenates.

Silver

staining of the electrophoresed gel indicated that several proteins were extracted from these homogenates according to cGMP-binding affinity (Fig. 5C).

Three major bands were

identified as PKG1 (band 1), cAMP-dependent protein kinase type I-alpha regulatory subunit (band 2), and actin (band 3), respectively (Table 1).

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antibody verified the identity of band 1 as PKG1 (Fig. 5D).

An important result was that

Western blotting clearly showed S-guanylation of PKG1 (Fig. 5E) even without LPS treatment.

Densitometric analyses indicated that LPS treatment significantly enhanced the

extent of PKG1 S-guanylation; the ratios of band intensities for S-guanylated PKG1 to total PKG1 were 0.23 and 0.57 for PBS-treated control and LPS-treated samples, respectively. These data suggest that S-guanylation of PKG indeed occurs in vivo, particularly under excess production of NO and ROS. We finally investigated the phosphorylation of VASP as an index of PKG activation in mice with or without LPS treatment.

As shown in the Fig. 5F,

phosphorylation of VASP was enhanced by LPS treatment compared with PBS-treated control.

Relative intensity for phosphorylated versus total VASP in LPS-treated mice hearts

was approximately 1.8 times higher than that of PBS-treated control, which shows good correlation to the increment of PKG S-guanylation upon LPS treatment as mentioned above.

DISCUSSION In this study, we demonstrated that 8-nitro-cGMP potentially S-guanylates PKG1 in vitro. Mass spectrometric analyses as well as Western blotting with Cys mutants revealed that Cys42 and Cys195 were susceptible residues for S-guanylation.

In vitro kinase assay using

Cys mutants clearly indicated that S-guanylation at Cys195 contributed to the persistent activation of PKG.

As mentioned earlier, PKG1α consists of several functionally different

domains in its structure (Fig. 2C).

At N-terminal, coiled coils promote a parallel

homodimeric configuration, followed by an autoinhibitory (AI) domain and two tandem cGMP binding sites, which cooperatively regulate C-terminal catalytic activity.18,28,29

The

AI domain is flexible hinge segment having a pseudosubstrate sequence and is believed to autoinhibit the C-terminal catalytic center in the enzyme’s dormant state.18,28,29 localized in high affinity cGMP binding site (Fig. 2C).

Cys195 is

It was reported that cGMP binding

to both the high and low affinity domains induces the conformational change necessary for full kinase activity.18,28,29

Our study showed that S-guanylation of PKG1α was partially

inhibited in the presence of Rp-8-bromo-cGMP (Fig. 1).

This may suggest that binding of

8-nitro-cGMP to high affinity domain initially occurs, followed by nucleophilic attack by Cys195 to complete S-guanylation at Cys195, resulting in fixation of cGMP moiety in cGMP high affinity domain to cause persistent full enzyme activation.


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It should be noted that oxidation of Cys195 has been implicated in the cGMP-independent activation of PKG1α.

Landgraf et al. reported that exposure of PKG1α

to divalent cations with positive redox potentials promotes enzyme activation in the absence of cGMP.20

Disulfide bonds formed between Cys117-Cys195 and/or Cys312-Cys518 has

been suggested to involve in such cGMP-independent enzyme activation.20

They also

reported that alkylation by iodoacetamide of Cys residues of PKG1α including Cys195 did not cause enzyme activation, suggesting that simple alkylation including carboxymethylation occurring at Cys195 is not sufficient to activate PKG1α.20

Detailed structural analyses by

Osborne et al. suggested that disulfide bond formation between Cys117-Cys195 may disrupt the interaction between the AI and catalytic center thereby releasing the kinase from a state of autoinhibition.19

In contrast, it seems unlikely that Cys312 is capable of forming a disulfide

bridge with Cys518 from the activation loop in the catalytic domain.

It is thus suggested

that Cys195 plays different roles in PKG1α activation, i.e., disulfide bridge formation with Cys312 or S-guanylation in response to oxidants or 8-nitro-cGMP, respectively. The molecular docking analysis fo PKG1α with 8-nitro-cGMP suggested that 8-nitro-cGMP binds to the high affinity binding pocket identical to that for native cGMP (Supplemental Fig. S8).

From docking analysis, distance between Cys195 and C-8 of

non-covalently attached 8-nitro-cGMP was predicted to be ~21Å.

This suggests that, after

S-guanylation, cGMP moiety derived from 8-nitro-cGMP retained in the high affinity binding pocket, which may contribute to persistent activation of the enzyme.

This speculation

should be supported by more precise structural analysis in future. Cys42, an another site for S-guanylation, is present between coiled coil dimerization domain and AI domain.

It has been suggested that H2O2 treatment induced inter-subunit

disulfide formation between Cys42 of each subunit, which activates PKG1α via induction of conformational change independently cGMP binding.21

Our data showed that S-guanylation

occurring at Cys42, however, did not affect enzyme activation as suggested by the finding that C42S mutant could be activated by 8-nitro-cGMP to the similar extent to that of wild type enzyme. We demonstrated in this study that 8-nitro-cGMP induced S-guanylation not only of PKG1α but also of PKG1β (Fig. 3).

PKG1α and PKG1β are isoforms of PKG1 generated

by the prkg1 gene via alternative splicing.30

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amino-terminal leucine zipper domain.31

With regard to protein S-guanylation, PKG1β

lacks the amino-terminal Cys residue that corresponds to Cys42 of PKG1α, but the other Cys residues are exactly the same as those in PKG1α (Supplemental Fig. S9). This finding suggests that Cys210, which corresponds to the Cys195 of PKG1α, is the site susceptible to 8-nitro-cGMP-mediated S-guanylation. We previously found that 8-nitro-cGMP shows a biphasic effect on vasculature.12

In

aortic rings with intact endothelium, 8-nitro-cGMP at concentrations higher than 10 µM induced relaxation of precontracted vascular strip, whereas 8-nitro-cGMP at concentrations less than 10 µM substantially enhanced vasoconstriction.

8-Nitro-cGMP-dependent

vasoconstriction could be attributable to the redox active property of this molecule: 8-nitro-cGMP can accelerate superoxide production from endothelial NOS via electron uncoupling reactions.

Superoxide thus formed nullified bioavailability of NO.

other hand, 8-nitro-cGMP showed vasorelaxation effect.

On the

This suggests that 8-nitro-cGMP

directly induces vasorelaxation possibly via PKG activation.

In this study, we showed that

vascular relaxation caused by 8-nitro-cGMP was persistently observed suggesting that irreversible activation of PKG1α via S-guanylation may contribute to such persistent vascular relaxation. proteins.

Activated PKG1α would induce vascular relaxation by phosphorylating target Myosin light chain (MLC) phosphorylation is known to be a key determinant of

smooth muscle contractility.32,33

Activated PKG1α promotes MLC dephosphorylation by

activating MLC phosphatase, which results in smooth muscle relaxation.32,33

PKG1β,

however, regulates smooth muscle relaxation by alternative mechanisms.32,33

For instance,

PKG1β activation leads to inhibition of MLC kinase via suppression of calcium release from sarcoplasmic reticulum.32,33 We previously demonstrated that 8-nitro-cGMP S-guanylates the intracellular envelop of invaded bacteria and initiates thereby ubiquitination and autophagy.34

Dey et al. reported

that cGMP down-regulates PKG1 singal, at least in part, via degradation of the enzyme by activating ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.35

Thus, stability and degradation of S-guanylated

PKG1α needs be clarified for further understanding of the action of 8-nitro-cGMP on vascular regulation. As shown in Fig. 5B and Supplemental Fig. S6, multiple proteins were targets for protein S-guanylation during 8-nitro-cGMP stimuli.

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occurring other than PKG should be investigated, because certain electrophiles are known to induce vasodilation.

For example, curcumin, a naturally occurring phenolic compound

isolated from turmeric, has electrophilic nature, and was found to show relaxant effect on porcine coronary arterial ring segments.36

Such vasodilating effect of curcumin was

suggested to involve activation of endothelium-dependent NO formation.

On the other hand,

endothelium independent vasodilating action of curcumin was also reported, suggesting that vasodilating action of curcumin might be context dependent manner.37

It was also reported

that 4-hydroxynonenal, an electrophile formed during lipid peroxidation, induces relaxation of human cerebral arteries.38

The vasodilating effect of 4-hydroxynonenal was endothelium

dependent, possibly via modulation of cellular signaling in endothelium.

Further study is

warranted to identify the target proteins as well as their functions for vascular tone regulation. Biological levels of 8-nitro-cGMP are regulated by multiple factors.

In cells and

tissues, abundant substrate GTP is first nitrated by biologically relevant nitrating agents.14 Peroxynitrite is a strong nitrating agent formed from the reaction of NO and superoxide radical.39

At physiological pH, peroxynitrous acid, a protonated form of peroxynitrite,

decomposes via hemolysis to give the hydroxyl radical and nitrogen dioxide.

Hydroxy

radical thus formed oxidizes guanine moiety resulting in the formation of guanine cation radical, which secondary reacts with nitrogen dioxide to form 8-nitroguanine. Nitrite-myeloperoxidase-hydrogen peroxide system is another important system to form 8-nitroguanine.

In this system, nitrite is oxidized by myeloperoxidase in the presence of

hydrogen peroxide to form nitrogen dioxide.

Reaction of myeloperoxidase with hydrogen

peroxide also form myeloperoxidase complex I that can oxidize guanine moiety to form guanine cation radical. 8-nitroguanine. guanylyl cyclase.

Finally, guanine radical reacts with nitrogen dioxide to form

8-Nitro-GTP is then converted to 8-nitro-cGMP by the catalytic action of In this study, we found that 8-nitro-cGMP was present in mice tissue

without any specific treatment.

This suggests that basal level production of nitrating agents

may occur under physiological conditions.

This is in consistent with our previous data that

basal level formation of 8-nitro-cGMP was determined even in unstimulated mammalian cultured cells and in mouse tissues.14-16

It is interesting to note that PKG S-guanylation was

also evident under physiological condition (Fig. 5), suggesting that PKG is sensitive target for endogenous protein S-guanylation. Metabolic conversion of 8-nitro-cGMP is important to determine the regulation of 18 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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S-guanylation-dependent ROS signaling.

We recently identified that reactive cysteine

persulfides potentially react with 8-nitro-cGMP, resulting in conversion of 8-nitro-cGMP to 8-SH-cGMP.40

Because of highly nucleophilic nature of cysteine persulfides, they react

effectively with 8-nitro-cGMP to form unstable cysteine persulfide-cGMP adducts that are easily reduced to form 8-SH-cGMP.

Transsulfuration pathway enzymes cystathione

β-synthase and cystathione γ-lyase contribute, at least in part, to the endogenous formation of cysteine persulfides by catalyzing CS bond cleavage in cystine.40

8-SH-cGMP thus formed

is further metabolized to native cGMP via oxidative desulfuration mediated by biologically relevant oxidants such as H2O2 and peroxynitrite of which formation is pronounced under oxidative stress conditions.16

Finally cGMP is degraded by phosphodiesterases.

In conclusion, this study demonstrated that S-guanylation of PKG at Cys195 leads to persistent activation of the enzyme.

We also showed the in vivo occurrence of PKG

S-guanylation under basal condition as well as endotoxin shock condition.

These findings

warrant further investigation for physiological and pathophysiological roles of S-guanylation-dependent persistent activation of PKG and its downstream signaling cascade.

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Acknowledgments. We thank J. B. Gandy for her editing of the manuscript.

Thanks are

also due to Drs S. Khan, M.H.A. Rahman, F.Y. Wei, and K. Miyata for technical assistance.

Supporting Information The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website at DOI: xxx.

Figures S1-S9 and Tables S1-S3.

FIGURE LEGENDS

Figure 1.

Western blot analysis of PKG1 S-guanylation in vitro. Dependence on time (A)

and dose (B) of PKG1α S-guanylation by 8-nitro-cGMP.

(A) Recombinant human PKG1α

was reacted with 200 µM 8-nitro-cGMP at 37 °C for the indicated time periods.

PKG1α

was reacted with different concentrations of 8-nitro-cGMP at 37 °C for 180 min in the absence of additive (B), or in the presence of 10 mM DTT (C).

(D) Effect of a cGMP

analogue on PKG1α S-guanylation by 8-nitro-cGMP. PKG1α was reacted with 200 µM 8-nitro-cGMP for 180 min in the presence of various concentrations of Rp-8-bromo-cGMPS. (E) Time-dependent S-guanylation of PKG1β by 8-nitro-cGMP.


Recombinant human

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PKG1β was reacted with 200 µM 8-nitro-cGMP at 37 °C for the indicated time periods. 100 ng of PKG1 per lane were loaded.

Figure 2.

Full length blot images are in Supplemental Fig. S1.

Site-specific S-guanylation of PKG1α by 8-nitro-cGMP.

(A) LC-TOF-MS/MS

analysis of S-guanylated peptides. S-Guanylation at Cys42 (left panel) and at Cys195 (right panel) of human PKG1α was found.

*C indicates the S-guanylated Cys residue.

mass fragmentation patterns are shown in Supplemental Tables S1 and S2. analysis of PKG1α S-guanylation.

Peptide

(B) Western blot

Wild-type PKG1α and Cys mutant PKG1α were reacted

with 200 µM 8-nitro-cGMP for 180 min, followed by Western blotting. Western blotting confirmed the loading control of PKG1α. S2.

Full length blot images are in Supplemental Fig.

(C) Domain structure of human PKG1α.

Arrows indicate Cys residues.

AI,

autoinhibitory domain.

Figure 3.

Irreversible activation of PKG1α by 8-nitro-cGMP in vitro. Recombinant human

PKG1α was incubated with different concentrations of cGMP (A) or 8-nitro-cGMP (B) for 30 min.

Enzyme activity was then determined by using an in vitro kinase assay with the

PKG substrate peptide Glasstide and [32P]ATP, as described in the text. S.D. (n = 3).

Data are means ±

Results for non-linear regression isotherm analysis and Hill slopes for both

cGMP and 8-nitro-cGMP are shown in Supplemental Fig. S3. PKG1α by 8-nitro-cGMP or cGMP with or without desaltation.

(C) Activation of human Enzyme activity was

determined by means of an in vitro kinase assay. PKG1α was reacted with 200 µM 8-nitro-cGMP or cGMP for 5, 10 and 30 min.

Reaction mixtures were then subjected to

ultracentrifugation to remove free (not covalently bound) cGMP derivatives (desaltation). Data are means ± S.D. (n = 3).

**, p < 0.01 versus non-desaltation.

confirmed recovery of PKG1α after desaltation (inset). Supplemental Fig. S4.

Western blotting

Full length blot images are in

(D) Effects of desaltation on activation by 8-nitro-cGMP of

wild-type PKG1α or Cys mutant recombinant PKG1α.

Data are means ± S.D. (n = 3).

**,

p < 0.01 versus non-desaltation. WT, wild type.

Figure 4.

Induction by 8-nitro-cGMP of sustained hyporesponsiveness of mouse aorta to

phenylephrine.

Mouse aortic rings with intact endothelium were treated with 200 µM


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8-nitro-cGMP (A) or 8-bromo-cGMP (B) or were untreated (PBS control) in Krebs-Henseleit buffer at 37 °C for 2 h. Vasocontraction induced by different concentrations of phenylephrine was then measured.

In separate experiments, aortic rings were washed with

Krebs-Henseleit buffer before measurement of vasocontraction.

Figure 5.

Identification of endogenous PKG1α S-guanylation in mouse heart.

(A) Time

course of iNOS expression in mouse heart tissues after LPS treatment. C57BL/6 mice received LPS (32 mg/kg) via i.p. injection. S7.

Full length blot images are in Supplemental Fig.

(B) Western blotting of endogenous protein S-guanylation in mouse heart tissues after

LPS treatment for 12 h (left panel).

Relative band intensity to that of GAPDH was

determined by densitometric analysis on three major bands indicated by arrow heads (right panel). (C) silver staining of protein samples of mouse heart homogenates eluted from cGMP-immobilized-agarose.

Three major bands (1-3) noted in the gel were subjected to

in-gel digestion followed by LC-TOF-MS/MS proteomic analyses. the same protein samples as in B, of PKG (D) and S-guanylation (E).

Western blotting, with Arrowheads point to

the molecular size identical to that of PKG1α. (F) Western blotting of phosphorylated levels of VASP in mouse heart tissues after LPS treatment (left panel).

Band intensities of

phosphorylated VASP relative to total VASP were determined by densitometric analysis (right panel).


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TABLE 1 Proteomic identification of proteins in mouse heart homogenates after immunoaffinity purification with cGMP-agarose Sample

Band

Protein name

Score

Protein sequence

Nominal

coverage (%)

mass

620

25

76,302

633

39

43,158

Actin, alpha cardiac muscle 1

190

24

41,992

Actin, cytoplasmic 1

141

21

41,710

cGMP-dependent protein

264

14

76,302

no. PBS control 1

cGMP-dependent protein kinase 1

2

cAMP-dependent protein kinase type I-alpha regulatory subunit

3

LPS treated

1

kinase 1 2

cAMP-dependent protein

685

43

43,158

kinase type I-alpha regulatory subunit 3

Actin, alpha cardiac muscle 1

347

36

41,992

Actin, cytoplasmic 1

283

36

41,710


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Fig. 1. Akashi et al.

A

0

Time (min)

60 　

15

180

S-Guanylation

B 8-Nitro-cGMP (µM)

10

50

100

200

!

! ! S-Guanylation

C

8-Nitro-cGMP (µM)

0

0.1

1

10

100 !

S-Guanylation

D Rp-8-Br-cGMPS (µM) 8-Nitro-cGMP (200 µM)

+

1 +

0

15

10 　 +

100 +

S-Guanylation PKG

E

Time (min) S-Guanylation

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180

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A

y10!y9!y8!y7!y6! y1!

y3!

y1! y7!

*C Q S V L P V P S T H I G P R! b2! y2!

y6! b2! y3!

y4! y7!

y10! y9!

1000! (m/z)!

600!

C195S

Wild type

B

y7!

C42S/195S

200!

1000! (m/z)!

600!

y5!

y3!

C42S

200!

y5!y4! y3!y2!

Q *C F Q T I M M R!

y8!

S-Guanylation!

PKG!

C

REGULATORY DOMAIN! 58-72! 1! 40! N!

Dimer!

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42!

111! AI!

CATALYTIC DOMAIN!

228! cGMP! high!

344! cGMP! low!

118! 129!158!175! 195!

313!

474!

ATP-! binding!

441! 467!


670! Substrate-binding!

519!

595!

C!

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C 12000! 10000! 8000! 6000! 4000! 2000!

70000!

PKG!

60000! 50000! 40000!

25000!

30000! 20000! 10000! 5!

Log[cGMP] (M)

6000! 4000! 2000! 0! 0.0001! 0.001!0.01! 1! 10! -9 -8 0.1! -7 -8 -5 100! -4 Control Log[8-Nitro-cGMP] (M)

PKG activity! (counts per minute)

12000!

8000!

10! 30! Time (min)

Desaltation (+)! cGMP! 8-Nitro-cGMP!

14000!

10000!

D

cGMP! 8-Nitro-cGMP!

0!

0! -9 -8 0.1! -7 -6 -5 100! -4 Control 0.0001! 0.001!0.01! 1! 10!

B

No desaltation! cGMP! 8-Nitro-cGMP!

70000!

40000!

cGMP! 8-Nitro-cGMP!

**

30000! 20000! 10000!

Desaltation! –! +!

20000! 15000! **

10000!

**

5000!

PKG!

60000! 50000!


14000! PKG activity! (counts per minute)


A


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**

**

0! 5!

10! 30! Time (min)


0! WT wt

C42S C195S C42S/! 42 195 195/42 C195S PKG1α

Biochemistry


B 140!

Contraction (% of control)


A Without washing

120! 100!

PBS 8-Nitro-cGMP

80! 60! 40! 20!

120! 100!


140!

With washing PBS 8-Nitro-cGMP

80! 60! 40! 20! 0! -9 0.01 -8 -7 -6 Control 0.0001 0.001 0.1 1 Log[Phenylephrine] (M)

-5 10

140! 120! 100!

Without washing PBS 8-Bromo-cGMP


0! -9 0.01 -8 -7 -6 -5 Control 0.0001 0.001 0.1 1 10 Log[Phenylephrine] (M) Contraction (% of control)

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160! 140! 120! 100!

-5 10

With washing PBS 8-Bromo-cGMP



-5 10

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B

C

LPS

kDa

iNOS!

β-Actin!

100 75

1 2

50 37

3

25 20

GAPDH

D kDa

0.4!

50 37

1

1

2 3

2 3

0.2!

0! band 1! band 2! band 3!

kDa

150

150

100

100

75

250 150 100 75

0.6!

37

F

E PBS LPS

M PBS M LPS kDa

Relative band intensity! (Normalized to GAPDH)

Time after LPS treatment (h) 0 6 12

PBS! LPS!

0.8!

PBS LPS kDa 75

PBS

50 Phospho-! VASP 37

75

50

50

37

37

75 Total-! 50 VASP 37

1.4!

LPS Relative intensity! (phospho-VASP/total-VASP)

A

PBS

S-guanylation

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1.2! 1! 0.8! 0.6! 0.4! 0.2! 0! PBS! LPS!


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O

Substrate-binding site

O 2N

O

AI

NH 2 NH 2

COO

N

NH N

Substrate

NH 2

O

O

Cys195

N

P O

OH

OH

S

cGMP NH 2 NH 2

Irreversible activation

S cGMP H

PKG1α

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