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Khan S, Molloy JE, Puhl H, Schulman H, Vogel SS. Real-time single-molecule imaging of CaMKII-calmodulin interactions. Biophys J 2024; 123:824-838. [PMID: 38414237 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2024.02.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 02/29/2024] Open
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The binding of calcium/calmodulin (CAM) to calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) initiates an ATP-driven cascade that triggers CaMKII autophosphorylation. The autophosphorylation in turn increases the CaMKII affinity for CAM. Here, we studied the ATP dependence of CAM association with the actin-binding CaMKIIβ isoform using single-molecule total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. Rhodamine-CAM associations/dissociations to surface-immobilized Venus-CaMKIIβ were resolved with 0.5 s resolution from video records, batch-processed with a custom algorithm. CAM occupancy was determined simultaneously with spot-photobleaching measurement of CaMKII holoenzyme stoichiometry. We show the ATP-dependent increase of the CAM association requires dimer formation for both the α and β isoforms. The study of mutant β holoenzymes revealed that the ATP-dependent increase in CAM affinity results in two distinct states. The phosphorylation-defective (T287.306-307A) holoenzyme resides only in the low-affinity state. CAM association is further reduced in the T287A holoenzyme relative to T287.306-307A. In the absence of ATP, the affinity of CAM for the T287.306-307A mutant and the wild-type monomer are comparable. The affinity of the ATP-binding impaired (K43R) mutant is even weaker. In ATP, the K43R holoenzyme resides in the low-affinity state. The phosphomimetic mutant (T287D) resides only in a 1000-fold higher-affinity state, with mean CAM occupancy of more than half of the 14-mer holoenzyme stoichiometry in picomolar CAM. ATP promotes T287D holoenzyme disassembly but does not elevate CAM occupancy. Single Poisson distributions characterized the ATP-dependent CAM occupancy of mutant holoenzymes. In contrast, the CAM occupancy of the wild-type population had a two-state distribution with both low- and high-affinity states represented. The low-affinity state was the dominant state, a result different from published in vitro assays. Differences in assay conditions can alter the balance between activating and inhibitory autophosphorylation. Bound ATP could be sufficient for CaMKII structural function, while antagonistic autophosphorylations may tune CaMKII kinase-regulated action-potential frequency decoding in vivo.
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- Shahid Khan
- Molecular Biology Consortium at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.
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- Laboratory of Biophotonics and Quantum Biology, National Institutes on Alcohol, Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland
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- Panorama Research Institute, Sunnyvale, California; Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Laboratory of Biophotonics and Quantum Biology, National Institutes on Alcohol, Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland
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Lučić I, Jiang P, Franz A, Bursztyn Y, Liu F, Plested AJR. Controlling the interaction between CaMKII and Calmodulin with a photocrosslinking unnatural amino acid. Protein Sci 2023; 32:e4798. [PMID: 37784242 PMCID: PMC10588329 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Revised: 09/08/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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Using unnatural amino acid mutagenesis, we made a mutant of CaMKII that forms a covalent linkage to Calmodulin upon illumination by UV light. Like wild-type CaMKII, the L308BzF mutant stoichiometrically binds to Calmodulin, in a calcium-dependent manner. Using this construct, we demonstrate that Calmodulin binding to CaMKII, even under these stochiometric conditions, does not perturb the CaMKII oligomeric state. Furthermore, we were able to achieve activation of CaMKII L308BzF by UV-induced binding of Calmodulin, which, once established, is further insensitive to calcium depletion. In addition to the canonical auto-inhibitory role of the regulatory segment, inter-subunit crosslinking in the absence of CaM indicates that kinase domains and regulatory segments are substantially mobile in basal conditions. Characterization of CaMKIIL308BzF in vitro, and its expression in mammalian cells, suggests it could be a promising candidate for control of CaMKII activity in mammalian cells with light.
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- Iva Lučić
- Institute of Biology, Cellular BiophysicsHumboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
- Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)BerlinGermany
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- Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)BerlinGermany
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Chemistry and BiochemistryBerlinGermany
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- Institute of Biology, Cellular BiophysicsHumboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)BerlinGermany
- Charité‐Universitätsmedizin BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Institute of Biology, Cellular BiophysicsHumboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
- Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)BerlinGermany
- NeuroCure, Charité UniversitätsmedizinBerlinGermany
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Tullis JE, Larsen ME, Rumian NL, Freund RK, Boxer EE, Brown CN, Coultrap SJ, Schulman H, Aoto J, Dell'Acqua ML, Bayer KU. LTP induction by structural rather than enzymatic functions of CaMKII. Nature 2023; 621:146-153. [PMID: 37648853 PMCID: PMC10482691 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06465-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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Learning and memory are thought to require hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), and one of the few central dogmas of molecular neuroscience that has stood undisputed for more than three decades is that LTP induction requires enzymatic activity of the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII)1-3. However, as we delineate here, the experimental evidence is surprisingly far from conclusive. All previous interventions inhibiting enzymatic CaMKII activity and LTP4-8 also interfere with structural CaMKII roles, in particular binding to the NMDA-type glutamate receptor subunit GluN2B9-14. Thus, we here characterized and utilized complementary sets of new opto-/pharmaco-genetic tools to distinguish between enzymatic and structural CaMKII functions. Several independent lines of evidence demonstrated LTP induction by a structural function of CaMKII rather than by its enzymatic activity. The sole contribution of kinase activity was autoregulation of this structural role via T286 autophosphorylation, which explains why this distinction has been elusive for decades. Directly initiating the structural function in a manner that circumvented this T286 role was sufficient to elicit robust LTP, even when enzymatic CaMKII activity was blocked.
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- Jonathan E Tullis
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
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Buonarati OR, Miller AP, Coultrap SJ, Bayer KU, Reichow SL. Conserved and divergent features of neuronal CaMKII holoenzyme structure, function, and high-order assembly. Cell Rep 2021; 37:110168. [PMID: 34965414 PMCID: PMC8985225 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Revised: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Neuronal CaMKII holoenzymes (α and β isoforms) enable molecular signal computation underlying learning and memory but also mediate excitotoxic neuronal death. Here, we provide a comparative analysis of these signaling devices, using single-particle electron microscopy (EM) in combination with biochemical and live-cell imaging studies. In the basal state, both isoforms assemble mainly as 12-mers (but also 14-mers and even 16-mers for the β isoform). CaMKIIα and β isoforms adopt an ensemble of extended activatable states (with average radius of 12.6 versus 16.8 nm, respectively), characterized by multiple transient intra- and inter-holoenzyme interactions associated with distinct functional properties. The extended state of CaMKIIβ allows direct resolution of intra-holoenzyme kinase domain dimers. These dimers could enable cooperative activation by calmodulin, which is observed for both isoforms. High-order CaMKII clustering mediated by inter-holoenzyme kinase domain dimerization is reduced for the β isoform for both basal and excitotoxicity-induced clusters, both in vitro and in neurons. The CaMKII holoenzyme enables neuronal signal computation. In a comparative structure-function analysis of the neuronal α and β isoforms, Buonarati et al. find evidence for kinase domain dimers within the holoenzyme that enable a cooperative activation mechanism in both isoforms and inter-holoenzyme interactions that enable high-order aggregate formation under ischemic conditions.
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- Olivia R Buonarati
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA.
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Araki S, Osuka K, Takata T, Tsuchiya Y, Watanabe Y. Coordination between Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II and Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase in Neurons. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21217997. [PMID: 33121174 PMCID: PMC7662388 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21217997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2020] [Revised: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 10/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is highly abundant in the brain and exhibits broad substrate specificity, thereby it is thought to participate in the regulation of neuronal death and survival. Nitric oxide (NO), produced by neuronal NO synthase (nNOS), is an important neurotransmitter and plays a role in neuronal activity including learning and memory processes. However, high levels of NO can contribute to excitotoxicity following a stroke and neurodegenerative disease. Aside from NO, nNOS also generates superoxide which is involved in both cell injury and signaling. CaMKII is known to activate and translocate from the cytoplasm to the post-synaptic density in response to neuronal activation where nNOS is predominantly located. Phosphorylation of nNOS at Ser847 by CaMKII decreases NO generation and increases superoxide generation. Conversely, NO-induced S-nitrosylation of CaMKII at Cys6 is a prominent determinant of the CaMKII inhibition in ATP competitive fashion. Thus, the "cross-talk" between CaMKII and NO/superoxide may represent important signal transduction pathways in brain. In this review, we introduce the molecular mechanism of and pathophysiological role of mutual regulation between CaMKII and nNOS in neurons.
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- Shoma Araki
- Department of Pharmacology, Showa Pharmaceutical University, Machida, Tokyo 194-8543, Japan; (S.A.); (T.T.); (Y.T.)
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Aichi Medical University, Aichi 480-1195, Japan;
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- Department of Pharmacology, Showa Pharmaceutical University, Machida, Tokyo 194-8543, Japan; (S.A.); (T.T.); (Y.T.)
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Molecular Toxicology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacology, Showa Pharmaceutical University, Machida, Tokyo 194-8543, Japan; (S.A.); (T.T.); (Y.T.)
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- Department of Pharmacology, Showa Pharmaceutical University, Machida, Tokyo 194-8543, Japan; (S.A.); (T.T.); (Y.T.)
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Nicole O, Pacary E. CaMKIIβ in Neuronal Development and Plasticity: An Emerging Candidate in Brain Diseases. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21197272. [PMID: 33019657 PMCID: PMC7582470 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21197272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Revised: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
Abstract
The calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a ubiquitous and central player in Ca2+ signaling that is best known for its functions in the brain. In particular, the α isoform of CaMKII has been the subject of intense research and it has been established as a central regulator of neuronal plasticity. In contrast, little attention has been paid to CaMKIIβ, the other predominant brain isoform that interacts directly with the actin cytoskeleton, and the functions of CaMKIIβ in this organ remain largely unexplored. However, recently, the perturbation of CaMKIIβ expression has been associated with multiple neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases, highlighting CAMK2B as a gene of interest. Herein, after highlighting the main structural and expression differences between the α and β isoforms, we will review the specific functions of CaMKIIβ, as described so far, in neuronal development and plasticity, as well as its potential implication in brain diseases.
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- Olivier Nicole
- CNRS, UMR5293 Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, University of Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France;
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- INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, University of Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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Tullis JE, Rumian NL, Brown CN, Bayer KU. The CaMKII K42M and K42R mutations are equivalent in suppressing kinase activity and targeting. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0236478. [PMID: 32716967 PMCID: PMC7384616 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
Abstract
CaMKII is an important mediator of forms of synaptic plasticity that are thought to underly learning and memory. The CaMKII mutants K42M and K42R have been used interchangeably as research tools, although some reported phenotypic differences suggest that they may differ in the extent to which they impair ATP binding. Here, we directly compared the two mutations at the high ATP concentrations that exist within cells (~4 mM). We found that both mutations equally blocked GluA1 phosphorylation in vitro and GluN2B binding within cells. Both mutations also reduced but did not completely abolish CaMKII T286 autophosphorylation in vitro or CaMKII movement to excitatory synapses in neurons. Thus, despite previously suggested differences, both mutations appear to interfere with ATP binding to the same extent.
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- Jonathan E. Tullis
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America
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Torres‐Ocampo AP, Özden C, Hommer A, Gardella A, Lapinskas E, Samkutty A, Esposito E, Garman SC, Stratton MM. Characterization of CaMKIIα holoenzyme stability. Protein Sci 2020; 29:1524-1534. [PMID: 32282091 PMCID: PMC7255518 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2020] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Ca2+ /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a Ser/Thr kinase necessary for long-term memory formation and other Ca2+ -dependent signaling cascades such as fertilization. Here, we investigated the stability of CaMKIIα using a combination of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-ray crystallography, and mass photometry (MP). The kinase domain has a low thermal stability (apparent Tm = 36°C), which is slightly stabilized by ATP/MgCl2 binding (apparent Tm = 40°C) and significantly stabilized by regulatory segment binding (apparent Tm = 60°C). We crystallized the kinase domain of CaMKII bound to p-coumaric acid in the active site. This structure reveals solvent-exposed hydrophobic residues in the substrate-binding pocket, which are normally buried in the autoinhibited structure when the regulatory segment is present. This likely accounts for the large stabilization that we observe in DSC measurements comparing the kinase alone with the kinase plus regulatory segment. The hub domain alone is extremely stable (apparent Tm ~ 90°C), and the holoenzyme structure has multiple unfolding transitions ranging from ~60°C to 100°C. Using MP, we compared a CaMKIIα holoenzyme with different variable linker regions and determined that the dissociation of both these holoenzymes occurs at a higher concentration (is less stable) compared with the hub domain alone. We conclude that within the context of the holoenzyme structure, the kinase domain is stabilized, whereas the hub domain is destabilized. These data support a model where domains within the holoenzyme interact.
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- Ana P. Torres‐Ocampo
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMassachusettsUSA
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate ProgramUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMassachusettsUSA
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate ProgramUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMassachusettsUSA
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate ProgramUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMassachusettsUSA
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Li HQ, Xu JY, Gao YY, Jin L, Chen JM, Chen FZ. Supramolecular structure, in vivo biological activities and molecular-docking-based potential cardiotoxic exploration of aconine hydrochloride monohydrate as a novel salt form. Acta Crystallogr B Struct Sci Cryst Eng Mater 2020; 76:208-224. [PMID: 32831223 DOI: 10.1107/s2052520620001250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Despite the high profile of aconine in WuTou injection, there has been no preparative technology or structural studies of its salt as the pharmaceutical product. The lack of any halide salt forms is surprising as aconine contains a tertiary nitrogen atom. In this work, aconine was prepared from the degradation of aconitine in Aconiti kusnezoffii radix (CaoWu). A green chemistry technique was applied to enrich the lipophilic-poor aconine. Reaction of aconine with hydrochloride acid resulted in protonation of the nitrogen atom and gave a novel salt form (C25H42NO9+·Cl-·H2O; aconine hydrochloride monohydrate, AHM), whose cation in the crystal structure was elucidated based on extensive spectroscopic and X-ray crystallographic analyses. The AHM crystal had a Z' = 3 structure with three independent cation-anion pairs, with profound conformational differences among the aconine cations. The central framework of each aconine cation was compared with that of previously reported aconitine, proving that protonation of the nitrogen atom induced the structure rearrangement. In the crystal of AHM, aconine cations, chloride anions and water molecules interacted through inter-species O-H...Cl and O-H...O hydrogen bonds; this complex hydrogen-bonding network stabilizes the supramolecular structure. The seriously disordered solvent molecules were treated using the PLATON SQUEEZE procedure [Spek (2015). Acta Cryst. C71, 9-18] and their atoms were therefore omitted from the refinement. Bioactivity studies indicated that AHM promoted in vitro proliferative activities of RAW264.7 cells. Molecular docking suggested AHM could target cardiotoxic protein through the hydrogen-bonding interactions. The structural confirmation of AHM offers a rational approach for improving the pharmaceutical technology of WuTou injection.
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- Han Qing Li
- State Clinical Trial Institution of New Drugs, International Mongolian Hospital of Inner Mongolia, No. 83, Da Xue East Road, Sai Han District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010065, People's Republic of China
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- Mongolian Pharmaceutical Preparation Center, International Mongolian Hospital of Inner Mongolia, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010065, People's Republic of China
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- State Clinical Trial Institution of New Drugs, International Mongolian Hospital of Inner Mongolia, No. 83, Da Xue East Road, Sai Han District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010065, People's Republic of China
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- State Clinical Trial Institution of New Drugs, International Mongolian Hospital of Inner Mongolia, No. 83, Da Xue East Road, Sai Han District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010065, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Greenpure Biopharma Co., Ltd, Chengdu, Sichuan 614041, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan 614004, People's Republic of China
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Bhattacharyya M, Lee YK, Muratcioglu S, Qiu B, Nyayapati P, Schulman H, Groves JT, Kuriyan J. Flexible linkers in CaMKII control the balance between activating and inhibitory autophosphorylation. eLife 2020; 9:e53670. [PMID: 32149607 PMCID: PMC7141811 DOI: 10.7554/elife.53670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The many variants of human Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) differ in the lengths and sequences of disordered linkers connecting the kinase domains to the oligomeric hubs of the holoenzyme. CaMKII activity depends on the balance between activating and inhibitory autophosphorylation (on Thr 286 and Thr 305/306, respectively, in the human α isoform). Variation in the linkers could alter transphosphorylation rates within a holoenzyme and the balance of autophosphorylation outcomes. We show, using mammalian cell expression and a single-molecule assay, that the balance of autophosphorylation is flipped between CaMKII variants with longer and shorter linkers. For the principal isoforms in the brain, CaMKII-α, with a ~30 residue linker, readily acquires activating autophosphorylation, while CaMKII-β, with a ~200 residue linker, is biased towards inhibitory autophosphorylation. Our results show how the responsiveness of CaMKII holoenzymes to calcium signals can be tuned by varying the relative levels of isoforms with long and short linkers.
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- Moitrayee Bhattacharyya
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Panorama Institute of Molecular MedicineSunnyvaleUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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Takla M, Huang CLH, Jeevaratnam K. The cardiac CaMKII-Na v1.5 relationship: From physiology to pathology. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2020; 139:190-200. [PMID: 31958466 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2019.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Revised: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 12/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The SCN5A gene encodes Nav1.5, which, as the cardiac voltage-gated Na+ channel's pore-forming α subunit, is crucial for the initiation and propagation of atrial and ventricular action potentials. The arrhythmogenic propensity of inherited SCN5A mutations implicates the Na+ channel in determining cardiomyocyte excitability under normal conditions. Cytosolic kinases have long been known to alter the kinetic profile of Nav1.5 inactivation via phosphorylation of specific residues. Recent substantiation of both the role of calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaMKII) in modulating the properties of the Nav1.5 inactivation gate and the significant rise in oxidation-dependent autonomous CaMKII activity in structural heart disease has raised the possibility of a novel pathway for acquired arrhythmias - the CaMKII-Nav1.5 relationship. The aim of this review is to: (1) outline the relationship's translation from physiological adaptation to pathological vicious circle; and (2) discuss the relative merits of each of its components as pharmacological targets.
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- Michael Takla
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7AL, United Kingdom; Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7AL, United Kingdom; Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, United Kingdom.
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Gonzalez-Lozano MA, Koopmans F, Sullivan PF, Protze J, Krause G, Verhage M, Li KW, Liu F, Smit AB. Stitching the synapse: Cross-linking mass spectrometry into resolving synaptic protein interactions. Sci Adv 2020; 6:eaax5783. [PMID: 32128395 PMCID: PMC7030922 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax5783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2019] [Accepted: 12/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Synaptic transmission is the predominant form of communication in the brain. It requires functionally specialized molecular machineries constituted by thousands of interacting synaptic proteins. Here, we made use of recent advances in cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) in combination with biochemical and computational approaches to reveal the architecture and assembly of synaptic protein complexes from mouse brain hippocampus and cerebellum. We obtained 11,999 unique lysine-lysine cross-links, comprising connections within and between 2362 proteins. This extensive collection was the basis to identify novel protein partners, to model protein conformational dynamics, and to delineate within and between protein interactions of main synaptic constituents, such as Camk2, the AMPA-type glutamate receptor, and associated proteins. Using XL-MS, we generated a protein interaction resource that we made easily accessible via a web-based platform (http://xlink.cncr.nl) to provide new entries into exploration of all protein interactions identified.
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- M. A. Gonzalez-Lozano
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Departments of Genetics and Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Structural Biology, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Functional Genomics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin, Germany
- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Pharris MC, Patel NM, VanDyk TG, Bartol TM, Sejnowski TJ, Kennedy MB, Stefan MI, Kinzer-Ursem TL. A multi-state model of the CaMKII dodecamer suggests a role for calmodulin in maintenance of autophosphorylation. PLoS Comput Biol 2019; 15:e1006941. [PMID: 31869343 PMCID: PMC6957207 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2019] [Revised: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) accounts for up to 2 percent of all brain protein and is essential to memory function. CaMKII activity is known to regulate dynamic shifts in the size and signaling strength of neuronal connections, a process known as synaptic plasticity. Increasingly, computational models are used to explore synaptic plasticity and the mechanisms regulating CaMKII activity. Conventional modeling approaches may exclude biophysical detail due to the impractical number of state combinations that arise when explicitly monitoring the conformational changes, ligand binding, and phosphorylation events that occur on each of the CaMKII holoenzyme's subunits. To manage the combinatorial explosion without necessitating bias or loss in biological accuracy, we use a specialized syntax in the software MCell to create a rule-based model of a twelve-subunit CaMKII holoenzyme. Here we validate the rule-based model against previous experimental measures of CaMKII activity and investigate molecular mechanisms of CaMKII regulation. Specifically, we explore how Ca2+/CaM-binding may both stabilize CaMKII subunit activation and regulate maintenance of CaMKII autophosphorylation. Noting that Ca2+/CaM and protein phosphatases bind CaMKII at nearby or overlapping sites, we compare model scenarios in which Ca2+/CaM and protein phosphatase do or do not structurally exclude each other's binding to CaMKII. Our results suggest a functional mechanism for the so-called "CaM trapping" phenomenon, wherein Ca2+/CaM may structurally exclude phosphatase binding and thereby prolong CaMKII autophosphorylation. We conclude that structural protection of autophosphorylated CaMKII by Ca2+/CaM may be an important mechanism for regulation of synaptic plasticity.
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- Matthew C. Pharris
- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
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- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America
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- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- ZJU-UoE Institute, Zhejiang University, Haining, China
- * E-mail: (MIS); (TLKU)
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
- * E-mail: (MIS); (TLKU)
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The Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) was touted as a memory molecule, even before its involvement in long-term potentiation (LTP) was shown. The enzyme has not disappointed, with subsequent demonstrations of remarkable structural and regulatory properties. Its neuronal functions now extend to long-term depression (LTD), and last year saw the first direct evidence for memory storage by CaMKII. Although CaMKII may have taken the spotlight, it is a member of a large family of diverse and interesting CaM kinases. Our aim is to place CaMKII in context of the other CaM kinases and then review certain aspects of this kinase that are of current interest.
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- K Ulrich Bayer
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
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Wang WX, Lai FX, Wan PJ, Fu Q, Zhu TH. Molecular Characterization of Ca 2+/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II Isoforms in Three Rice Planthoppers- Nilaparvata lugens, Laodelphax striatellus, and Sogatella furcifera. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20123014. [PMID: 31226788 PMCID: PMC6627886 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20123014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Revised: 06/13/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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This study reports the identification of splice variants for the calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) gene from Nilaparvata lugens, Laodelphax striatellus, and Sogatella furcifera. CaMKII is a multifunctional serine/threonine protein kinase that transduces Ca2+ signals in cells to control a range of cellular processes in the nervous system and muscular tissue. Sequence analysis showed that CaMKII was 99.0% identical at the amino acid level among three rice planthoppers, with the exception of a variable region located in the association domain. Four kinds of 20–81 amino acid “inserts” were found in the variable region. The phylogenetic tree of the deduced amino acid sequences showed that the NlCaMKII isoforms were more closely related to the LsCaMKII isoforms and were slightly distinct from SfCaMKII. CaMKII-E was the dominant type among the five main isoforms. CaMKII genes were constitutively expressed in various nymphal and adult stages and in tested tissues with the predominant transcription occurring in the head. There was no major tissue specificity of isoform expression, but the expression pattern and relative abundance of isoforms varied when compared with the RT-PCR between tissues. In addition, RNAi in N. lugens with dsRNA at a concentration of 200 ng nymph−1 induced a mortality of 77.7% on the 10th day and a reduction in the mRNA expression level of 67.2%. Unlike the holometabolous insect Helicoverpa armigera, the knockdown of NlCaMKII did not suppress the expression of 20E response genes, such as ECR, USP1, and HR3, in N. lugens. These results indicate that the role of CaMKII in hemimetabolous insects may be different from that in holometabolous insects.
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- Wei-Xia Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China.
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- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road, Hangzhou 310014, China.
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Lehman SJ, Tal-Grinspan L, Lynn ML, Strom J, Benitez GE, Anderson ME, Tardiff JC. Chronic Calmodulin-Kinase II Activation Drives Disease Progression in Mutation-Specific Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Circulation 2019; 139:1517-1529. [PMID: 30586744 PMCID: PMC6461395 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.118.034549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Although the genetic causes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are widely recognized, considerable lag in the development of targeted therapeutics has limited interventions to symptom palliation. This is in part attributable to an incomplete understanding of how point mutations trigger pathogenic remodeling. As a further complication, similar mutations within sarcomeric genes can result in differential disease severity, highlighting the need to understand the mechanism of progression at the molecular level. One pathway commonly linked to HCM progression is calcium homeostasis dysregulation, though how specific mutations disrupt calcium homeostasis remains unclear. METHODS To evaluate the effects of early intervention in calcium homeostasis, we used 2 mouse models of sarcomeric HCM (cardiac troponin T R92L and R92W) with differential myocellular calcium dysregulation and disease presentation. Two modes of intervention were tested: inhibition of the autoactivated calcium-dependent kinase (calmodulin kinase II [CaMKII]) via the AC3I peptide and diltiazem, an L-type calcium channel antagonist. Two-dimensional echocardiography was used to determine cardiac function and left ventricular remodeling, and atrial remodeling was monitored via atrial mass. Sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ATPase activity was measured as an index of myocellular calcium handling and coupled to its regulation via the phosphorylation status of phospholamban. RESULTS We measured an increase in phosphorylation of CaMKII in R92W animals by 6 months of age, indicating increased autonomous activity of the kinase in these animals. Inhibition of CaMKII led to recovery of diastolic function and partially blunted atrial remodeling in R92W mice. This improved function was coupled to increased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ATPase activity in the R92W animals despite reduction of CaMKII activation, likely indicating improvement in myocellular calcium handling. In contrast, inhibition of CaMKII in R92L animals led to worsened myocellular calcium handling, remodeling, and function. Diltiazem-HCl arrested diastolic dysfunction progression in R92W animals only, with no improvement in cardiac remodeling in either genotype. CONCLUSIONS We propose a highly specific, mutation-dependent role of activated CaMKII in HCM progression and a precise therapeutic target for clinical management of HCM in selected cohorts. Moreover, the mutation-specific response elicited with diltiazem highlights the necessity to understand mutation-dependent progression at a molecular level to precisely intervene in disease progression.
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- Sarah J. Lehman
- Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85724, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85724, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85724, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85724, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85724, USA
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Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is upregulated in diabetes and significantly contributes to cardiac remodeling with increased risk of cardiac arrhythmias. Diabetes is frequently associated with atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, and heart failure, which may further enhance CaMKII. Activation of CaMKII occurs downstream of neurohormonal stimulation (e.g. via G-protein coupled receptors) and involve various posttranslational modifications including autophosphorylation, oxidation, S-nitrosylation and O-GlcNAcylation. CaMKII signaling regulates diverse cellular processes in a spatiotemporal manner including excitation-contraction and excitation-transcription coupling, mechanics and energetics in cardiac myocytes. Chronic activation of CaMKII results in cellular remodeling and ultimately arrhythmogenic alterations in Ca2+ handling, ion channels, cell-to-cell coupling and metabolism. This review addresses the detrimental effects of the upregulated CaMKII signaling to enhance the arrhythmogenic substrate and trigger mechanisms in the heart. We also briefly summarize preclinical studies using kinase inhibitors and genetically modified mice targeting CaMKII in diabetes. The mechanistic understanding of CaMKII signaling, cardiac remodeling and arrhythmia mechanisms may reveal new therapeutic targets and ultimately better treatment in diabetes and heart disease in general.
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- Bence Hegyi
- Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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Wang Y, Yan S, Xiao B, Zuo S, Zhang Q, Chen G, Yu Y, Chen D, Liu Q, Liu Y, Shen Y, Yu Y. Prostaglandin F 2α Facilitates Hepatic Glucose Production Through CaMKIIγ/p38/FOXO1 Signaling Pathway in Fasting and Obesity. Diabetes 2018; 67:1748-1760. [PMID: 29773555 DOI: 10.2337/db17-1521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 05/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Gluconeogenesis is drastically increased in patients with type 2 diabetes and accounts for increased fasting plasma glucose concentrations. Circulating levels of prostaglandin (PG) F2α are also markedly elevated in diabetes; however, whether and how PGF2α regulates hepatic glucose metabolism remain unknown. Here, we demonstrated that PGF2α receptor (F-prostanoid receptor [FP]) was upregulated in the livers of mice upon fasting- and diabetic stress. Hepatic deletion of the FP receptor suppressed fasting-induced hepatic gluconeogenesis, whereas FP overexpression enhanced hepatic gluconeogenesis in mice. FP activation promoted the expression of gluconeogenic enzymes (PEPCK and glucose-6-phosphatase) in hepatocytes in a FOXO1-dependent manner. Additionally, FP coupled with Gq in hepatocytes to elicit Ca2+ release, which activated Ca2+/calmodulin-activated protein kinase IIγ (CaMKIIγ) to increase FOXO1 phosphorylation and subsequently accelerate its nuclear translocation. Blockage of p38 disrupted CaMKIIγ-induced FOXO1 nuclear translocation and abrogated FP-mediated hepatic gluconeogenesis in mice. Moreover, knockdown of hepatic FP receptor improved insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis in ob/ob mice. FP-mediated hepatic gluconeogenesis via the CaMKIIγ/p38/FOXO1 signaling pathway, indicating that the FP receptor might be a promising therapeutic target for type 2 diabetes.
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MESH Headings
- Active Transport, Cell Nucleus/drug effects
- Animals
- Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2/chemistry
- Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2/genetics
- Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2/metabolism
- Cells, Cultured
- Crosses, Genetic
- Diet, High-Fat/adverse effects
- Dinoprost/metabolism
- Fasting/metabolism
- Forkhead Box Protein O1/agonists
- Forkhead Box Protein O1/genetics
- Forkhead Box Protein O1/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects
- Gluconeogenesis/drug effects
- Humans
- Insulin Resistance
- Liver/cytology
- Liver/drug effects
- Liver/metabolism
- Liver/pathology
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Obese
- Mice, Transgenic
- Obesity/etiology
- Obesity/metabolism
- Obesity/pathology
- Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology
- RNA Interference
- Receptors, Prostaglandin/agonists
- Receptors, Prostaglandin/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Prostaglandin/genetics
- Receptors, Prostaglandin/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors
- p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/genetics
- p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism
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- Yuanyang Wang
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Immune Microenvironment and Disease (Ministry of Education), Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory for Medical Genomics, School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Immune Microenvironment and Disease (Ministry of Education), Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Xinhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Immune Microenvironment and Disease (Ministry of Education), Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Immune Microenvironment and Disease (Ministry of Education), Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Key Laboratory of Immune Microenvironment and Disease (Ministry of Education), Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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Erwin T, Rekulapally SP, Abraham TS, Liu Q. A non-radioactive in vitro CaMKII activity assay using HPLC-MS. J Pharmacol Toxicol Methods 2018; 94:64-70. [PMID: 29803814 DOI: 10.1016/j.vascn.2018.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2018] [Revised: 05/16/2018] [Accepted: 05/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Calcium/Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a multifunctional protein kinase that phosphorylates and regulates activity of many substrates in various tissues. Traditional CaMKII activity assays rely on incorporation of radioactivity onto a CaMKII substrate by utilizing γ-32P ATP, which has a short half-life and can pose health risks to the researchers. METHODS An 8-minute HPLC-MS method was developed to measure a CaMKII-specific peptide substrate autocamtide-2 (AC-2) and its phosphorylated form, phosphoautocamtide-2 (PAC-2). Degradation of AC-2 and PAC-2 in solutions and how to stabilize them were studied. The method was validated according to FDA guidelines for bioassays, and applied to determine CaMKII activity in a C2C12 cell lysate and IC50 of KN-93, a known CaMKII inhibitor. RESULTS Simple acidification with formic acid prevented AC-2 and PAC-2 from undergoing rapid degradation in the CaMKII assay mixture and in diluted water solutions. LLOQ of the HPLC-MS method was 0.26 μM and 0.12 μM for quantification of AC-2 and PAC-2, respectively. Precision was within 15% and accuracy was within 100 ± 15%. Using the developed method, IC50 of KN-93 was measured to be 399 ± 66 nM, which was compatible to reported values. CONCLUSIONS A validated HPLC-MS method provides precise and accurate determination of AC-2 and PAC-2. This method enabled enzyme activity assay and inhibitor IC50 determination for CaMKII without radioactive labelled reagents.
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- Tully Erwin
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC 27506, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC 27506, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC 27506, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC 27506, USA.
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PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homology deleted on chromosome 10) has multiple functions, and recent studies have shown that the PTEN family has isoforms. The roles of these PTEN family members in biologic activities warrant specific evaluation. Here, we show that PTENα maintains CaMKII in a state that is competent to induce long-term potentiation (LTP) with resultant regulation of contextual fear memory and spatial learning. PTENα binds to CaMKII with its distinctive N terminus and resets CaMKII to an activatable state by dephosphorylating it at sites T305/306. Loss of PTENα impedes the interaction of CaMKII and NR2B, leading to defects in hippocampal LTP, fear-conditioned memory, and spatial learning. Restoration of PTENα in the hippocampus of PTENα-deficient mice rescues learning deficits through regulation of CaMKII. CaMKII mutations in dementia patients inhibit CaMKII activity and result in disruption of PTENα-CaMKII-NR2B signaling. We propose that CaMKII is a target of PTENα phosphatase and that PTENα is an essential element in the molecular regulation of neural activity.
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- Pan Wang
- Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China.
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Khan S, Conte I, Carter T, Bayer KU, Molloy JE. Multiple CaMKII Binding Modes to the Actin Cytoskeleton Revealed by Single-Molecule Imaging. Biophys J 2016; 111:395-408. [PMID: 27463141 PMCID: PMC4968397 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2015] [Revised: 06/07/2016] [Accepted: 06/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Localization of the Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) to dendritic spine synapses is determined in part by the actin cytoskeleton. We determined binding of GFP-tagged CaMKII to tag-RFP-labeled actin cytoskeleton within live cells using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy and single-molecule tracking. Stepwise photobleaching showed that CaMKII formed oligomeric complexes. Photoactivation experiments demonstrated that diffusion out of the evanescent field determined the track lifetimes. Latrunculin treatment triggered a coupled loss of actin stress fibers and the colocalized, long-lived CaMKII tracks. The CaMKIIα (α) isoform, which was previously thought to lack F-actin interactions, also showed binding, but this was threefold weaker than that observed for CaMKIIβ (β). The βE' splice variant bound more weakly than α, showing that binding by β depends critically on the interdomain linker. The mutations βT287D and αT286D, which mimic autophosphorylation states, also abolished F-actin binding. Autophosphorylation triggers autonomous CaMKII activity, but does not impair GluN2B binding, another important synaptic protein interaction of CaMKII. The CaMKII inhibitor tatCN21 or CaMKII mutations that inhibit GluN2B association by blocking binding of ATP (βK43R and αK42M) or Ca(2+)/calmodulin (βA303R) had no effect on the interaction with F-actin. These results provide the first rationale for the reduced synaptic spine localization of the αT286D mutant, indicating that transient F-actin binding contributes to the synaptic localization of the CaMKIIα isoform. The track lifetime distributions had a stretched exponential form consistent with a heterogeneously diffusing population. This heterogeneity suggests that CaMKII adopts different F-actin binding modes, which is most easily rationalized by multiple subunit contacts between the CaMKII dodecamer and the F-actin cytoskeleton that stabilize the initial weak (micromolar) monovalent interaction.
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- Shahid Khan
- Molecular Biology Consortium, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.
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- Cardiovascular and Cell Science Research Institute, St. George's University of London, London, UK
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- Cell Biology and Genetics, St. George's University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado
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- The Francis Crick Institute, Mill Hill Laboratory, London, UK
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Wang X, Pan T. Methionine Mistranslation Bypasses the Restraint of the Genetic Code to Generate Mutant Proteins with Distinct Activities. PLoS Genet 2015; 11:e1005745. [PMID: 26709516 PMCID: PMC4692448 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Although mistranslation is commonly believed to be deleterious, recent evidence indicates that mistranslation can be actively regulated and be beneficial in stress response. Methionine mistranslation in mammalian cells is regulated by reactive oxygen species where cells deliberately alter the proteome through incorporating Met at non-Met positions to enhance oxidative stress response. However, it was not known whether specific, mistranslated mutant proteins have distinct activities from the wild-type protein whose sequence is restrained by the genetic code. Here, we show that Met mistranslation with and without Ca2+ overload generates specific mutant Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) proteins substituting non-Met with Met at multiple locations. Compared to the genetically encoded wild-type CaMKII, specific mutant CaMKIIs can have distinct activation profiles, intracellular localization and enhanced phenotypes. Our results demonstrate that Met-mistranslation, or “Met-scan” can indeed generate mutant proteins in cells that expand the activity profile of the wild-type protein, and provide a molecular mechanism for the role of regulated mistranslation. Methionine-mistranslation is a recently discovered phenomenon where mammalian cells deliberately mischarge non-Met-tRNAs with amino acid methionine in unstressed cells and in response to innate immune and chemically triggered oxidative stress. These mischarged tRNAs are used in translation to generate mutant proteins containing non-Met to Met substitutions. Accumulating evidence shows that cells employ regulated mistranslation to enhance response to oxidative and other stresses. However, it was unknown whether any specific mutant proteins generated in mistranslation truly have distinct activities as the wild-type protein. Here, we identify and characterize naturally occurring Met-mistranslated proteins in human cells and show that specific Met-mistranslated proteins can have very distinct properties compared to the wild-type protein in vitro and in vivo. For the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII), Met-mistranslated CaMKII show significant differences in catalytic activities, subcellular localization and elevated caspase-3 activity from the wild-type CaMKII. Our results provide a molecular mechanism on how mistranslation is used as an adaptive mechanism to stress, and establish Met-mistranslation as a nature’s way to overcome the restraint on the protein sequence by the genetic code.
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- Xiaoyun Wang
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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CaMKII is activated by oxidation of methionine residues residing in the regulatory domain. Oxidized CaMKII (ox-CaMKII) is now thought to participate in cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases and cancer. This invited review summarizes current evidence for the role of ox-CaMKII in disease, considers critical knowledge gaps and suggests new areas for inquiry.
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- Mark E Anderson
- Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, United States.
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Murakoshi H, Shibata ACE, Nakahata Y, Nabekura J. A dark green fluorescent protein as an acceptor for measurement of Förster resonance energy transfer. Sci Rep 2015; 5:15334. [PMID: 26469148 PMCID: PMC4606784 DOI: 10.1038/srep15334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2015] [Accepted: 09/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Measurement of Förster resonance energy transfer by fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM-FRET) is a powerful method for visualization of intracellular signaling activities such as protein-protein interactions and conformational changes of proteins. Here, we developed a dark green fluorescent protein (ShadowG) that can serve as an acceptor for FLIM-FRET. ShadowG is spectrally similar to monomeric enhanced green fluorescent protein (mEGFP) and has a 120-fold smaller quantum yield. When FRET from mEGFP to ShadowG was measured using an mEGFP-ShadowG tandem construct with 2-photon FLIM-FRET, we observed a strong FRET signal with low cell-to-cell variability. Furthermore, ShadowG was applied to a single-molecule FRET sensor to monitor a conformational change of CaMKII and of the light oxygen voltage (LOV) domain in HeLa cells. These sensors showed reduced cell-to-cell variability of both the basal fluorescence lifetime and response signal. In contrast to mCherry- or dark-YFP-based sensors, our sensor allowed for precise measurement of individual cell responses. When ShadowG was applied to a separate-type Ras FRET sensor, it showed a greater response signal than did the mCherry-based sensor. Furthermore, Ras activation and translocation of its effector ERK2 into the nucleus could be observed simultaneously. Thus, ShadowG is a promising FLIM-FRET acceptor.
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- Hideji Murakoshi
- Supportive Center for Brain Research, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
- Department of Physiological Sciences, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Supportive Center for Brain Research, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- Division of Homeostatic Development, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
- Division of Homeostatic Development, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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Otmakhov N, Regmi S, Lisman JE. Fast Decay of CaMKII FRET Sensor Signal in Spines after LTP Induction Is Not Due to Its Dephosphorylation. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0130457. [PMID: 26086939 PMCID: PMC4472229 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2015] [Accepted: 05/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Because CaMKII is the critical Ca(2+) sensor that triggers long-term potentiation (LTP), understanding its activation and deactivation is important. A major advance has been the development of a FRET indicator of the conformational state of CaMKII called Camui. Experiments using Camui have demonstrated that the open (active) conformation increases during LTP induction and then decays in tens of seconds, with the major fast component decaying with a time-constant of ~ 6 sec (tau1). Because this decay is faster if autophosphorylation of T286 is prevented (the autophosphorylation prolongs activity by making the enzyme active even after Ca(2+) falls), it seemed likely that the fast decay is due to the T286 dephosphorylation. To test this interpretation, we studied the effect of phosphatase inhibitors on the single-spine Camui signal evoked by two-photon glutamate uncaging. We applied inhibitors of PP1 and PP2A, two phosphatases that are present at synapses and that have been shown to dephosphorylate CaMKII in vitro. The inhibitors increased the basal Camui activation state, indicating their effectiveness in cells. However, in no case did we find that tau1 was prolonged, contrary to what would be expected if the decay was phosphatase-dependent. This could either mean that decay was due to some unknown phosphatase or that the decay was not due to dephosphorylation. To distinguish between these possibilities, we expressed pseudo-phosphorylated Camui (T286D) (plus additional mutations [T/A] that prevented inhibitory 305/306 phosphorylation). This form had an elevated basal activation state, but was further activated during glutamate uncaging; importantly the activation state decayed with tau1 nearly the same as that of WT Camui. Therefore, the data strongly indicate that tau1 is not due to T286 dephosphorylation. We conclude that, although Camui is an excellent tool for observing CaMKII signaling, further experimentation is needed to determine how CaMKII is turned off by its dephosphorylation.
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- Nikolai Otmakhov
- Biology department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, United States of America
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- Biology department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, United States of America
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- Biology department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, United States of America
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A stochastic reaction network model of Ca(2+) dynamics in synapses (Pepke et al PLoS Comput. Biol. 6 e1000675) is expressed and simulated using rule-based reaction modeling notation in dynamical grammars and in MCell. The model tracks the response of calmodulin and CaMKII to calcium influx in synapses. Data from numerically intensive simulations is used to train a reduced model that, out of sample, correctly predicts the evolution of interaction parameters characterizing the instantaneous probability distribution over molecular states in the much larger fine-scale models. The novel model reduction method, 'graph-constrained correlation dynamics', requires a graph of plausible state variables and interactions as input. It parametrically optimizes a set of constant coefficients appearing in differential equations governing the time-varying interaction parameters that determine all correlations between variables in the reduced model at any time slice.
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- Todd Johnson
- Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine CA92697, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine CA92697, USA
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Shibata ACE, Maebashi HK, Nakahata Y, Nabekura J, Murakoshi H. Development of a molecularly evolved, highly sensitive CaMKII FRET sensor with improved expression pattern. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0121109. [PMID: 25799407 PMCID: PMC4370617 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Genetically encoded fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) biosensors have been successfully used to visualize protein activity in living cells. The sensitivity and accuracy of FRET measurements directly depend on biosensor folding efficiency, expression pattern, sensitivity, and dynamic range. Here, to improve the folding efficiency of the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II alpha (CaMKIIα) FRET biosensor, we amplified the association domain of the CaMKIIα gene using error-prone polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and fused it to the N-terminus of mCherry in a bacterial expression vector. We also created an Escherichia coli expression library based on a previously reported fluorescent protein folding reporter method, and found a bright red fluorescent colony that contained the association domain with four mutations (F394L, I419V, A430T, and I434T). In vitro assays using the purified mutant protein confirmed improved folding kinetics of the downstream fluorescent protein, but not of the association domain itself. Furthermore, we introduced these mutations into the previously reported CaMKIIα FRET sensor and monitored its Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent activation in HeLa cells using 2-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (2pFLIM), and found that the expression pattern and signal reproducibility of the mutant sensor were greatly improved without affecting the autophosphorylation function and incorporation into oligomeric CaMKIIα. We believe that our improved CaMKIIα FRET sensor would be useful in various types of cells and tissues, providing data with high accuracy and reproducibility. In addition, the method described here may also be applicable for improving the performance of all currently available FRET sensors.
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- Akihiro C. E. Shibata
- Supportive Center for Brain Research, National Institute for Physiological Science, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
- Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Supportive Center for Brain Research, National Institute for Physiological Science, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Division of Homeostatic Development, National Institute for Physiological Science, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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- Division of Homeostatic Development, National Institute for Physiological Science, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
- Department of Physiological Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
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- Supportive Center for Brain Research, National Institute for Physiological Science, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
- Department of Physiological Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
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Chakraborty A, Pasek DA, Huang TQ, Gomez AC, Yamaguchi N, Anderson ME, Meissner G. Inhibition of CaMKII does not attenuate cardiac hypertrophy in mice with dysfunctional ryanodine receptor. PLoS One 2014; 9:e104338. [PMID: 25093823 PMCID: PMC4122402 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2013] [Accepted: 07/12/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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In cardiac muscle, the release of calcium ions from the sarcoplasmic reticulum through ryanodine receptor ion channels (RyR2s) leads to muscle contraction. RyR2 is negatively regulated by calmodulin (CaM) and by phosphorylation of Ca2+/CaM-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII). Substitution of three amino acid residues in the CaM binding domain of RyR2 (RyR2-W3587A/L3591D/F3603A, RyR2ADA) impairs inhibition of RyR2 by CaM and results in cardiac hypertrophy and early death of mice carrying the RyR2ADA mutation. To test the cellular function of CaMKII in cardiac hypertrophy, mutant mice were crossed with mice expressing the CaMKII inhibitory AC3-I peptide or the control AC3-C peptide in the myocardium. Inhibition of CaMKII by AC3-I modestly reduced CaMKII-dependent phosphorylation of RyR2 at Ser-2815 and markedly reduced CaMKII-dependent phosphorylation of SERCA2a regulatory subunit phospholamban at Thr-17. However the average life span and heart-to-body weight ratio of Ryr2ADA/ADA mice expressing the inhibitory peptide were not altered compared to control mice. In Ryr2ADA/ADA homozygous mice, AC3-I did not alter cardiac morphology, enhance cardiac function, improve sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ handling, or suppress the expression of genes implicated in cardiac remodeling. The results suggest that CaMKII was not required for the rapid development of cardiac hypertrophy in Ryr2ADA/ADA mice.
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- Asima Chakraborty
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States of America
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Departments of Internal Medicine, and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
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Santalla M, Valverde CA, Harnichar E, Lacunza E, Aguilar-Fuentes J, Mattiazzi A, Ferrero P. Aging and CaMKII alter intracellular Ca2+ transients and heart rhythm in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One 2014; 9:e101871. [PMID: 25003749 PMCID: PMC4087024 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2014] [Accepted: 06/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Aging is associated to disrupted contractility and rhythmicity, among other cardiovascular alterations. Drosophila melanogaster shows a pattern of aging similar to human beings and recapitulates the arrhythmogenic conditions found in the human heart. Moreover, the kinase CaMKII has been characterized as an important regulator of heart function and an arrhythmogenic molecule that participate in Ca2+ handling. Using a genetically engineered expressed Ca2+ indicator, we report changes in cardiac Ca2+ handling at two different ages. Aging prolonged relaxation, reduced spontaneous heart rate (HR) and increased the occurrence of arrhythmias, ectopic beats and asystoles. Alignment between Drosophila melanogaster and human CaMKII showed a high degree of conservation and indicates that relevant phosphorylation sites in humans are also present in the fruit fly. Inhibition of CaMKII by KN-93 (CaMKII-specific inhibitor), reduced HR without significant changes in other parameters. By contrast, overexpression of CaMKII increased HR and reduced arrhythmias. Moreover, it increased fluorescence amplitude, maximal rate of rise of fluorescence and reduced time to peak fluorescence. These results suggest that CaMKII in Drosophila melanogaster acts directly on heart function and that increasing CaMKII expression levels could be beneficial to improve contractility.
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- Manuela Santalla
- Centro de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, CONICET-La Plata, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Departamento de Ciencias Básicas y Experimentales, Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de Buenos Aires, Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, CONICET-La Plata, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, CONICET-La Plata, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones Inmunológicas Básicas y Aplicadas, CONICET-La Plata, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Centro Mesoamericano de Estudios en Salud Pública y Desastres, Nodo Tapachula, Laboratorio de Epigenética del Neurodesarrollo y Neurobiología Molecular, Tapachula, Chiapas, México
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- Centro de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, CONICET-La Plata, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, CONICET-La Plata, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Departamento de Ciencias Básicas y Experimentales, Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de Buenos Aires, Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Miao Y, Xu J, Shen Y, Chen L, Bian Y, Hu Y, Zhou W, Zheng F, Man N, Shen Y, Zhang Y, Wang M, Wen L. Nanoparticle as signaling protein mimic: robust structural and functional modulation of CaMKII upon specific binding to fullerene C60 nanocrystals. ACS Nano 2014; 8:6131-44. [PMID: 24863918 DOI: 10.1021/nn501495a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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In a biological environment, nanoparticles encounter and interact with thousands of proteins, forming a protein corona on the surface of the nanoparticles, but these interactions are oftentimes perceived as nonspecific protein adsorption, with protein unfolding and deactivation as the most likely consequences. The potential of a nanoparticle-protein interaction to mimic a protein-protein interaction in a cellular signaling process, characterized by stringent binding specificity and robust functional modulation for the interacting protein, has not been adequately demonstrated. Here, we show that water-suspended fullerene C60 nanocrystals (nano-C60) interact with and modulate the function of the Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII), a multimeric intracellular serine/threonine kinase central to Ca(2+) signal transduction, in a fashion that rivals the well-documented interaction between the NMDA (N-methyl-d-aspartate) receptor subunit NR2B protein and CaMKII. The stable high-affinity binding of CaMKII to distinct sites on nano-C60, mediated by amino acid residues D246 and K250 within the catalytic domain of CaMKIIα, but not the nonspecific adsorption of CaMKII to diamond nanoparticles, leads to functional consequences reminiscent of the NR2B-CaMKII interaction, including generation of autonomous CaMKII activity after Ca(2+) withdrawal, calmodulin trapping and CaMKII translocation to postsynaptic sites. Our results underscore the critical importance of specific interactions between nanoparticles and cellular signaling proteins, and the ability of nano-C60 to sustain the autonomous kinase activity of CaMKII may have significant implications for both the biosafety and the potential therapeutic applications of fullerene C60.
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- Yanyan Miao
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science & Technology of China , Hefei, Anhui 230027, China
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Tian Y, Yabuki Y, Moriguchi S, Fukunaga K, Mao PJ, Hong LJ, Lu YM, Wang R, Ahmed MM, Liao MH, Huang JY, Zhang RT, Zhou TY, Long S, Han F. Melatonin reverses the decreases in hippocampal protein serine/threonine kinases observed in an animal model of autism. J Pineal Res 2014; 56:1-11. [PMID: 23952810 DOI: 10.1111/jpi.12081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2013] [Accepted: 07/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Lower global cognitive function scores are a common symptom of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). This study investigates the effects of melatonin on hippocampal serine/threonine kinase signaling in an experimental ASD model. We found that chronic melatonin (1.0 or 5.0 mg/kg/day, 28 days) treatment significantly rescued valproic acid (VPA, 600 mg/kg)-induced decreases in CaMKII (Thr286), NMDAR1 (Ser896), and PKA (Thr197) phosphorylation in the hippocampus without affecting total protein levels. Compared with control rats, the immunostaining of pyramidal neurons in the hippocampus revealed a decrease in immunolabeling intensity for phospho-CaMKII (Thr286) in the hippocampus of VPA-treated rats, which was ameliorated by chronic melatonin treatment. Consistent with the elevation of CaMKII/PKA/PKC phosphorylation observed in melatonin-treated rat, long-term potentiation (LTP) was enhanced after chronic melatonin (5.0 mg/kg) treatment, as reflected by extracellular field potential slopes that increased from 56 to 60 min (133.4 ± 3.9% of the baseline, P < 0.01 versus VPA-treated rats) following high-frequency stimulation (HFS) in hippocampal slices. Accordingly, melatonin treatment also significantly improved social behavioral deficits at postnatal day 50 in VPA-treated rats. Taken together, the increased phosphorylation of CaMKII/PKA/PKC signaling might contribute to the beneficial effects of melatonin on autism symptoms.
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- Yun Tian
- Institute of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biochemical Pharmaceutics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Lin TY, Li BR, Tsai ST, Chen CW, Chen CH, Chen YT, Pan CY. Improved silicon nanowire field-effect transistors for fast protein-protein interaction screening. Lab Chip 2013; 13:676-684. [PMID: 23235921 DOI: 10.1039/c2lc40772h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Understanding how proteins interact with each other is the basis for studying the biological mechanisms behind various physiological activities. Silicon nanowire field-effect transistors (SiNW-FETs) are sensitive sensors used to detect biomolecular interactions in real-time. However, the majority of the applications that use SiNW-FETs are for known interactions between different molecules. To explore the capability of SiNW-FETs as fast screening devices to identify unknown interacting molecules, we applied mass spectrometry (MS) to analyze molecules reversibly bound to the SiNW-FETs. Calmodulin (CaM) is a Ca(2+)-sensing protein that is ubiquitously expressed in cells and its interaction with target molecules is Ca(2+)-dependent. By modifying the SiNW-FET surface with glutathione, glutathione S-transferase (GST)-tagged CaM binds reversibly to the SiNW-FET. We first verified the Ca(2+)-dependent interaction between GST-CaM and purified troponin I, which is involved in muscle contraction, through the conductance changes of the SiNW-FET. Furthermore, the cell lysate containing overexpressed Ca(2+)/CaM-dependent protein kinase IIα induced a conductance change in the GST-CaM-modified SiNW-FET. The bound proteins were eluted and subsequently identified by MS as CaM and kinase. In another example, candidate proteins from neuronal cell lysates interacting with calneuron I (CalnI), a CaM-like protein, were captured with a GST-CalnI-modified SiNW-FET. The proteins that interacted with CalnI were eluted and verified by MS. The Ca(2+)-dependent interaction between GST-CalnI and one of the candidates, heat shock protein 70, was re-confirmed via the SiNW-FET measurement. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of combining MS with SiNW-FETs to quickly screen interacting molecules from cell lysates.
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- Ti-Yu Lin
- Institute of Zoology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Gomez-Monterrey I, Sala M, Rusciano MR, Monaco S, Maione AS, Iaccarino G, Tortorella P, D'Ursi AM, Scrima M, Carotenuto A, De Rosa G, Bertamino A, Vernieri E, Grieco P, Novellino E, Illario M, Campiglia P. Characterization of a selective CaMKII peptide inhibitor. Eur J Med Chem 2013; 62:425-34. [PMID: 23395965 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2012.12.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2012] [Revised: 12/11/2012] [Accepted: 12/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Analogs of potent CaMKinase II inhibitor, CaM-KNtide, were prepared to explore new structural requirements for the inhibitory activity. The full potency of CaMKII inhibition by CaM-KIINα is contained within a minimal region of 19 amino acids. Here, analysis of the homologous CaM-KIINβ showed that a 17 mer peptide (CN17β) was the shortest sequence that still retained useful inhibitory potency. Ala substitution of almost any residue of CN17β dramatically reduced potency, except for substitution of P3, R14, and V16. Fusion with the tat sequence generated the cell-penetrating inhibitor version tat-5. This tat-5 fusion peptide maintained selectivity for CaMKII over CaMKI and CaMKIV, and appeared to slightly further enhance potency (IC50 ∼30 nM). Within a breast cancer cell line and in primary human fibroblasts, tat-5 inhibited the Erk signaling pathway and proliferation without any measurable cytotoxicity. Structural analysis of CN17β by CD and NMR indicated an α-helix conformation in the Leu6-Arg11 segment well overlapping with the crystal structure of 21-residue segment of CaM-KNtide bound to the kinase domain of CaMKII.
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- Isabel Gomez-Monterrey
- Depart. of Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Chemistry, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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Sharma P, Ishiyama N, Nair U, Li W, Dong A, Miyake T, Wilson A, Ryan T, MacLennan DH, Kislinger T, Ikura M, Dhe-Paganon S, Gramolini AO. Structural determination of the phosphorylation domain of the ryanodine receptor. FEBS J 2012; 279:3952-64. [PMID: 22913516 PMCID: PMC3712973 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2012.08755.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2012] [Revised: 08/13/2012] [Accepted: 08/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The ryanodine receptor (RyR) is a large, homotetrameric sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane protein that is essential for Ca(2+) cycling in both skeletal and cardiac muscle. Genetic mutations in RyR1 are associated with severe conditions including malignant hyperthermia (MH) and central core disease. One phosphorylation site (Ser 2843) has been identified in a segment of RyR1 flanked by two RyR motifs, which are found exclusively in all RyR isoforms as closely associated tandem (or paired) motifs, and are named after the protein itself. These motifs also contain six known MH mutations. In this study, we designed, expressed and purified the tandem RyR motifs, and show that this domain contains a putative binding site for the Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase β isoform. We present a 2.2 Å resolution crystal structure of the RyR domain revealing a two-fold, symmetric, extended four-helix bundle stabilized by a β sheet. Using mathematical modelling, we fit our crystal structure within a tetrameric electron microscopy (EM) structure of native RyR1, and propose that this domain is localized in the RyR clamp region, which is absent in its cousin protein inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor.
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- Parveen Sharma
- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Cheriyan J, Mohanan AG, Kurup PK, Mayadevi M, Omkumar RV. Effect of multimeric structure of CaMKII in the GluN2B-mediated modulation of kinetic parameters of ATP. PLoS One 2012; 7:e45064. [PMID: 23028764 PMCID: PMC3445591 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2012] [Accepted: 08/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Interaction of GluN2B subunit of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor with calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is critical for the induction of long term potentiation at hippocampal CA3-CA1 synapses. We have previously reported that CaMKII binding to GluN2B increases its affinity but abolishes the cooperativity for ATP. In the present study, we demonstrate that the reduction in S0.5 for ATP of an individual CaMKII subunit seems to be directly induced by the binding of GluN2B to the same subunit, while any GluN2B induced effects on the cooperativity and maximal velocity would additionally require the CaMKII holoenzyme structure. We measured the apparent kinetic parameters for ATP using an association domain truncated monomeric CaMKII and a heteromultimeric CaMKII (having subunits that are either GluN2B binding defective or ATP binding defective), in the presence of GluN2A or GluN2B substrates. The S0.5 value for ATP of monomeric CaMKII is reduced ∼ 3 fold by the presence of GluN2B suggesting that the induced change in affinity for ATP is independent of the holoenzyme structure. The heteromultimeric mutant of CaMKII, did not exhibit cooperativity of ATP binding probably because of the interspersing of ATP binding defective subunits in the holoenzyme. In contrast to the wild type holoenzyme, presence of GluN2B increased the Vmax of monomeric CaMKII which resulted in an approximately 4.0 fold increase in the apparent catalytic constant (Vmax/S0.5) as compared to GluN2A. The kinetic parameter values of the heteromultimeric CaMKII for ATP, on the other hand, did not show any significant difference between the phosphorylation of GluN2B and GluN2A suggesting that modulation requires binding of GluN2B to the same subunit. Overall, our present study provides insights into the role of multimeric structure of CaMKII in GluN2B-mediated regulation.
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- John Cheriyan
- Molecular Neurobiology Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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- Molecular Neurobiology Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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- Molecular Neurobiology Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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- Molecular Neurobiology Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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Cui ZJ, Han ZQ, Li ZY. Modulating protein activity and cellular function by methionine residue oxidation. Amino Acids 2012; 43:505-17. [PMID: 22146868 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-011-1175-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2011] [Accepted: 11/21/2011] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The sulfur-containing amino acid residue methionine (Met) in a peptide/protein is readily oxidized to methionine sulfoxide [Met(O)] by reactive oxygen species both in vitro and in vivo. Methionine residue oxidation by oxidants is found in an accumulating number of important proteins. Met sulfoxidation activates calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and the large conductance calcium-activated potassium channels, delays inactivation of the Shaker potassium channel ShC/B and L-type voltage-dependent calcium channels. Sulfoxidation at critical Met residues inhibits fibrillation of atherosclerosis-related apolipoproteins and multiple neurodegenerative disease-related proteins, such as amyloid beta, α-synuclein, prion, and others. Methionine residue oxidation is also correlated with marked changes in cellular activities. Controlled key methionine residue oxidation may be used as an oxi-genetics tool to dissect specific protein function in situ.
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- Zong Jie Cui
- Institute of Cell Biology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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Contractile activity during physical exercise induces an increase in GLUT4 expression in skeletal muscle, helping to improve glucose transport capacity and insulin sensitivity. An important mechanism by which exercise upregulates GLUT4 is through the activation of Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) in response to elevated levels of cytosolic Ca(2+) during muscle contraction. This review discusses the mechanism by which Ca(2+) activates CaMKII, explains research techniques currently used to alter CaMK activity in cells, and highlights various exercise models and pharmacological agents that have been used to provide evidence that CaMKII plays an important role in regulating GLUT4 expression. With regard to transcriptional mechanisms, the key research studies that identified myocyte enhancer factor 2 (MEF2) and GLUT4 enhancer factor as the major transcription factors regulating glut4 gene expression, together with their binding domains, are underlined. Experimental evidence showing that CaMK activation induces hyperacetylation of histones in the vicinity of the MEF2 domain and increases MEF2 binding to its cis element to influence MEF2-dependent Glut4 gene expression are also given along with data suggesting that p300 might be involved in acetylating histones on the Glut4 gene. Finally, an appraisal of the roles of other calcium- and non-calcium-dependent mechanisms, including the major HDAC kinases in GLUT4 expression, is also given.
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- Edward O Ojuka
- University of Capetown/Medical Research Center Research Unit for Exercise Science & Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Univeristy of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Jalan-Sakrikar N, Bartlett RK, Baucum AJ, Colbran RJ. Substrate-selective and calcium-independent activation of CaMKII by α-actinin. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:15275-83. [PMID: 22427672 PMCID: PMC3346149 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.351817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2012] [Revised: 03/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interactions are thought to modulate the efficiency and specificity of Ca(2+)/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) signaling in specific subcellular compartments. Here we show that the F-actin-binding protein α-actinin targets CaMKIIα to F-actin in cells by binding to the CaMKII regulatory domain, mimicking CaM. The interaction with α-actinin is blocked by CaMKII autophosphorylation at Thr-306, but not by autophosphorylation at Thr-305, whereas autophosphorylation at either site blocks Ca(2+)/CaM binding. The binding of α-actinin to CaMKII is Ca(2+)-independent and activates the phosphorylation of a subset of substrates in vitro. In intact cells, α-actinin selectively stabilizes CaMKII association with GluN2B-containing glutamate receptors and enhances phosphorylation of Ser-1303 in GluN2B, but inhibits CaMKII phosphorylation of Ser-831 in glutamate receptor GluA1 subunits by competing for activation by Ca(2+)/CaM. These data show that Ca(2+)-independent binding of α-actinin to CaMKII differentially modulates the phosphorylation of physiological targets that play key roles in long-term synaptic plasticity.
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- From the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
- Vanderbilt Brain Institute, and
- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232
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Craddock TJA, Tuszynski JA, Hameroff S. Cytoskeletal signaling: is memory encoded in microtubule lattices by CaMKII phosphorylation? PLoS Comput Biol 2012; 8:e1002421. [PMID: 22412364 PMCID: PMC3297561 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2011] [Accepted: 01/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Memory is attributed to strengthened synaptic connections among particular brain neurons, yet synaptic membrane components are transient, whereas memories can endure. This suggests synaptic information is encoded and 'hard-wired' elsewhere, e.g. at molecular levels within the post-synaptic neuron. In long-term potentiation (LTP), a cellular and molecular model for memory, post-synaptic calcium ion (Ca²⁺) flux activates the hexagonal Ca²⁺-calmodulin dependent kinase II (CaMKII), a dodacameric holoenzyme containing 2 hexagonal sets of 6 kinase domains. Each kinase domain can either phosphorylate substrate proteins, or not (i.e. encoding one bit). Thus each set of extended CaMKII kinases can potentially encode synaptic Ca²⁺ information via phosphorylation as ordered arrays of binary 'bits'. Candidate sites for CaMKII phosphorylation-encoded molecular memory include microtubules (MTs), cylindrical organelles whose surfaces represent a regular lattice with a pattern of hexagonal polymers of the protein tubulin. Using molecular mechanics modeling and electrostatic profiling, we find that spatial dimensions and geometry of the extended CaMKII kinase domains precisely match those of MT hexagonal lattices. This suggests sets of six CaMKII kinase domains phosphorylate hexagonal MT lattice neighborhoods collectively, e.g. conveying synaptic information as ordered arrays of six "bits", and thus "bytes", with 64 to 5,281 possible bit states per CaMKII-MT byte. Signaling and encoding in MTs and other cytoskeletal structures offer rapid, robust solid-state information processing which may reflect a general code for MT-based memory and information processing within neurons and other eukaryotic cells.
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Stefan MI, Marshall DP, Le Novère N. Structural analysis and stochastic modelling suggest a mechanism for calmodulin trapping by CaMKII. PLoS One 2012; 7:e29406. [PMID: 22279535 PMCID: PMC3261145 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2011] [Accepted: 11/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Activation of CaMKII by calmodulin and the subsequent maintenance of constitutive activity through autophosphorylation at threonine residue 286 (Thr286) are thought to play a major role in synaptic plasticity. One of the effects of autophosphorylation at Thr286 is to increase the apparent affinity of CaMKII for calmodulin, a phenomenon known as "calmodulin trapping". It has previously been suggested that two binding sites for calmodulin exist on CaMKII, with high and low affinities, respectively. We built structural models of calmodulin bound to both of these sites. Molecular dynamics simulation showed that while binding of calmodulin to the supposed low-affinity binding site on CaMKII is compatible with closing (and hence, inactivation) of the kinase, and could even favour it, binding to the high-affinity site is not. Stochastic simulations of a biochemical model showed that the existence of two such binding sites, one of them accessible only in the active, open conformation, would be sufficient to explain calmodulin trapping by CaMKII. We can explain the effect of CaMKII autophosphorylation at Thr286 on calmodulin trapping: It stabilises the active state and therefore makes the high-affinity binding site accessible. Crucially, a model with only one binding site where calmodulin binding and CaMKII inactivation are strictly mutually exclusive cannot reproduce calmodulin trapping. One of the predictions of our study is that calmodulin binding in itself is not sufficient for CaMKII activation, although high-affinity binding of calmodulin is.
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Chinpongpanich A, Wutipraditkul N, Thairat S, Buaboocha T. Biophysical characterization of calmodulin and calmodulin-like proteins from rice, Oryza sativa L. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 2011; 43:867-76. [PMID: 21908855 DOI: 10.1093/abbs/gmr081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Calmodulin (CaM) transduces the increase in cytosolic Ca(2+) concentrations by binding to and altering the activities of target proteins, thereby affecting the physiological responses to the vast array of stimuli. Here, we examined the purified recombinant proteins encoded by three Cam and eight Cam-like (CML) genes from rice. With the exception of one OsCML, all recombinant proteins could be purified by Ca(2+)-dependent hydrophobic chromatography and exhibited an electrophoretic mobility shift when incubated with Ca(2+). The three CaMs all bound CaM kinase II peptide, but none of the eight CMLs did, suggesting a possible differential target binding between the CaM and CML proteins. In addition, their conformational changes upon Ca(2+)-binding were evaluated by circular dichroism spectroscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy using 8-Anilino-1-naphthalene-sulfonic acid. Taken together, OsCMLs were found exhibiting a spectrum of both structural and functional characteristics that ranged from typical to atypical of CaMs. From structural comparison, the OsCMLs have overall main-chain conformation nearly identical to OsCaMs, but with distinct distribution of some charged and hydrophobic amino acids on their target-binding site. These results suggest that genetic polymorphism has promoted the functional diversity of the OsCML family, whose members possess modes of actions probably different from, though maybe overlapping with, those of OsCaMs.
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- Aumnart Chinpongpanich
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
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Savina TA, Shchipakina TG, Godukhin OV. [Effect of seizure activity on subunit composition of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in hippocampus of Krushinskii-Molodkina rats]. Ross Fiziol Zh Im I M Sechenova 2011; 97:590-600. [PMID: 21874871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Using a Western blot method it was been shown that a aontent of beta-CaMKII subunit was decreased on 40 % in hippocampus of Krushinskii-Molodkina rats (rats, genetically prone to audiogenic seizures) in comparison with normal Wistar rats. Additionally, we have investigate the temporal modifications of alpha/beta-CaMKII subunits in dependent from number audiogenic fits (n = 1 or n = 5). The level of beta-CaMKII in hippocampus of naive KM rats and KM rats in 24 h after single audiogenic seizure was not different, but it was increased on 56 % through 72 h after convulsion fit. In contrast, both 5-fold seizures and 20-fold seizures (audiogenic kindling) reduced the beta-CaMKII levels in comparison with naive group. The levels of alpha-subunit protein kinase in hippocampus these experimental groups of animals were not different. We suggest a hypothesis, that modifications alpha/beta ratio can be viewed as specific "homeostatic mechanism", which provide for neuronal function in hippocampus, thereby changing the rules governing synaptic plasticity in dependence from preliminary neuronal activity.
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Wanjerkhede SM, Bapi RS. Role of CAMKII in reinforcement learning: a computational model of glutamate and dopamine signaling pathways. Biol Cybern 2011; 104:397-424. [PMID: 21701878 DOI: 10.1007/s00422-011-0439-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2011] [Accepted: 05/30/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Timely release of dopamine (DA) at the striatum seems to be important for reinforcement learning (RL) mediated by the basal ganglia. Houk et al. (in: Houk et al (eds) Models of information processing in the basal ganglia, (1995) proposed a cellular signaling pathway model to characterize the interaction between DA and glutamate pathways that have a role in RL. The model simulation results, using GENESIS KINETIKIT simulator, point out that there is not only prolongation of duration as proposed by Houk et al. (1995), but also an enhancement in the amplitude of autophosphorylation of CaMKII. Further, the autophosphorylated form of CaMKII may form a basis for the "eligibility trace" condition required in RL. This simulation study is the first of its kind to support the comprehensive theoretical proposal of Houk et al. (1995).
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- Shesharao M Wanjerkhede
- Department of Computer Science, Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Bidar, Karanataka, India.
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Huang RYC, Laing JG, Kanter EM, Berthoud VM, Bao M, Rohrs HW, Townsend RR, Yamada KA. Identification of CaMKII phosphorylation sites in Connexin43 by high-resolution mass spectrometry. J Proteome Res 2011; 10:1098-109. [PMID: 21158428 PMCID: PMC3171746 DOI: 10.1021/pr1008702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Connexin43 (Cx43) is a major cardiac gap junction channel protein required for normal electrical and contractile activity. Gap junction channel assembly, function, and turnover are regulated by phosphorylation under both normal and disease conditions. The carboxyl terminus (CT) of Cx43 contains numerous amino acid residues that are phosphorylated by protein kinases. However, our knowledge of the specific residues and kinases involved is incomplete. The objective of this study was to identify amino acid residues in the Cx43-CT that are targets of the multifunctional protein kinase, Ca(2+)/calmodulin protein kinase II (CaMKII), an enzyme known to play critical roles in Ca(2+) homeostasis, transcription, apoptosis, and ischemic heart disease. We subjected fusion protein containing the Cx43-CT to phosphorylation by CaMKII in vitro, digestion with Lys-C and trypsin followed by enrichment for phosphorylated peptides using TiO(2), and analysis in an LTQ XL Orbitrap with collision-induced dissociation and electron transfer dissociation. We deduced the sites of modification by interpreting tandem spectra from these "orthogonal" methods of gas phase peptide fragmentation. We have identified 15 serine residues, including one novel site, in the Cx43-CT that are phosphorylated by CaMKII, the activity of which may be important in regulating Cx43 in normal and diseased hearts.
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
- Center for Cardiovascular Research, Washington University School of Medicine
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
- Center for Cardiovascular Research, Washington University School of Medicine
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
- Center for Cardiovascular Research, Washington University School of Medicine
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University School of Medicine
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
- Center for Cardiovascular Research, Washington University School of Medicine
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Guetg N, Aziz SA, Holbro N, Turecek R, Rose T, Seddik R, Gassmann M, Moes S, Jenoe P, Oertner TG, Casanova E, Bettler B. NMDA receptor-dependent GABAB receptor internalization via CaMKII phosphorylation of serine 867 in GABAB1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:13924-9. [PMID: 20643921 PMCID: PMC2922270 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000909107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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GABAB receptors are the G-protein-coupled receptors for GABA, the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. GABAB receptors are abundant on dendritic spines, where they dampen postsynaptic excitability and inhibit Ca2+ influx through NMDA receptors when activated by spillover of GABA from neighboring GABAergic terminals. Here, we show that an excitatory signaling cascade enables spines to counteract this GABAB-mediated inhibition. We found that NMDA application to cultured hippocampal neurons promotes dynamin-dependent endocytosis of GABAB receptors. NMDA-dependent internalization of GABAB receptors requires activation of Ca2+/Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII), which associates with GABAB receptors in vivo and phosphorylates serine 867 (S867) in the intracellular C terminus of the GABAB1 subunit. Blockade of either CaMKII or phosphorylation of S867 renders GABAB receptors refractory to NMDA-mediated internalization. Time-lapse two-photon imaging of organotypic hippocampal slices reveals that activation of NMDA receptors removes GABAB receptors within minutes from the surface of dendritic spines and shafts. NMDA-dependent S867 phosphorylation and internalization is predominantly detectable with the GABAB1b subunit isoform, which is the isoform that clusters with inhibitory effector K+ channels in the spines. Consistent with this, NMDA receptor activation in neurons impairs the ability of GABAB receptors to activate K+ channels. Thus, our data support that NMDA receptor activity endocytoses postsynaptic GABAB receptors through CaMKII-mediated phosphorylation of S867. This provides a means to spare NMDA receptors at individual glutamatergic synapses from reciprocal inhibition through GABAB receptors.
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- Nicole Guetg
- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Physiology, Pharmazentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Physiology, Pharmazentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Physiology, Pharmazentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 142 20 Prague, Czech Republic; and
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Physiology, Pharmazentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Physiology, Pharmazentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Physiology, Pharmazentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, Institute of Physiology, Pharmazentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Rellos P, Pike ACW, Niesen FH, Salah E, Lee WH, von Delft F, Knapp S. Structure of the CaMKIIdelta/calmodulin complex reveals the molecular mechanism of CaMKII kinase activation. PLoS Biol 2010; 8:e1000426. [PMID: 20668654 PMCID: PMC2910593 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2009] [Accepted: 06/08/2010] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Structural and biophysical studies reveal how CaMKII kinases, which are important for cellular learning and memory, are switched on by binding of Ca2+/calmodulin. Long-term potentiation (LTP), a long-lasting enhancement in communication between neurons, is considered to be the major cellular mechanism underlying learning and memory. LTP triggers high-frequency calcium pulses that result in the activation of Calcium/Calmodulin (CaM)-dependent kinase II (CaMKII). CaMKII acts as a molecular switch because it remains active for a long time after the return to basal calcium levels, which is a unique property required for CaMKII function. Here we describe the crystal structure of the human CaMKIIδ/Ca2+/CaM complex, structures of all four human CaMKII catalytic domains in their autoinhibited states, as well as structures of human CaMKII oligomerization domains in their tetradecameric and physiological dodecameric states. All four autoinhibited human CaMKIIs were monomeric in the determined crystal structures but associated weakly in solution. In the CaMKIIδ/Ca2+/CaM complex, the inhibitory region adopted an extended conformation and interacted with an adjacent catalytic domain positioning T287 into the active site of the interacting protomer. Comparisons with autoinhibited CaMKII structures showed that binding of calmodulin leads to the rearrangement of residues in the active site to a conformation suitable for ATP binding and to the closure of the binding groove for the autoinhibitory helix by helix αD. The structural data, together with biophysical interaction studies, reveals the mechanism of CaMKII activation by calmodulin and explains many of the unique regulatory properties of these two essential signaling molecules. Enhanced version This article can also be viewed as an enhanced version in which the text of the article is integrated with interactive 3-D representations and animated transitions. Please note that a web plugin is required to access this enhanced functionality. Instructions for the installation and use of the Web plugin are available in Text S1. CaMKII enzymes transmit calcium ion (Ca2+) signals released inside the cell by regulating signal transduction pathways through phosphorylation: Ca2+ first binds to the small regulatory protein CaM; this Ca2+/CaM complex then binds to and activates the kinase, which phosphorylates other proteins in the cell. Since CaMKs remain active long after rapid Ca2+ pulses have dropped they function as molecular switches that turn on or off crucial cell functions in response to Ca2+ levels. The multifunctional CaMKII forms of this enzyme – of which there are four in human – are important in many processes including signaling in neurons and controlling of the heart rate. They are particularly abundant in the brain where they probably play a role in memory. CaMKII forms an exceptionally large, dodecameric complex. Here, we describe the crystal structure of this complex for each of the four human CaMKII catalytic domains in their autoinhibited states, a complex of CaMKII with Ca2+/CaM, as well as the structure of the oligomerization domain (the part of the protein that mediates complex formation) in its physiological dodecameric state and in a tetradecameric state. Detailed comparison of this large body of structural data together with biophysical studies has allowed us to better understand the structural mechanisms of CaMKII activation by CaM and to explain many of the complex regulatory features of these essential enzymes.
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- Peter Rellos
- University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Houston CM, He Q, Smart TG. CaMKII phosphorylation of the GABA(A) receptor: receptor subtype- and synapse-specific modulation. J Physiol 2009; 587:2115-25. [PMID: 19332484 PMCID: PMC2697286 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.171603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2009] [Accepted: 03/25/2009] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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As a major inhibitory neurotransmitter, GABA plays a vital role in the brain by controlling the extent of neuronal excitation. This widespread role is reflected by the ubiquitous distribution of GABA(A) receptors throughout the central nervous system. To regulate the level of neuronal inhibition requires some endogenous control over the release of GABA and/or its postsynaptic response. In this context, Ca(2+) ions are often used as primary or secondary messengers frequently resulting in the activation of protein kinases and phosphatases. One such kinase, Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII), can target the GABA(A) receptor to cause its phosphorylation. Evidence is now emerging, which is reviewed here, that GABA(A) receptors are indeed substrates for CaMKII and that this covalent modification alters the expression of cell surface receptors and their function. This type of regulation can also feature at inhibitory synapses leading to long-term inhibitory synaptic plasticity. Most recently, CaMKII has now been proposed to differentially phosphorylate particular isoforms of GABA(A) receptors in a synapse-specific context.
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- Catriona M Houston
- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Liu XY, Mao LM, Zhang GC, Papasian CJ, Fibuch EE, Lan HX, Zhou HF, Xu M, Wang JQ. Activity-dependent modulation of limbic dopamine D3 receptors by CaMKII. Neuron 2009; 61:425-38. [PMID: 19217379 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2008] [Revised: 10/09/2008] [Accepted: 12/17/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is central to synaptic transmission. Here we show that synaptic CaMKIIalpha binds to the N-terminal region of the third intracellular loop of the limbic dopamine D3 receptor (D3R). This binding is Ca(2+) sensitive and is sustained by autophosphorylation of CaMKII, providing an unrecognized route for the Ca(2+)-mediated regulation of D3Rs. The interaction of CaMKIIalpha with D3Rs transforms D3Rs into a biochemical substrate of the kinase and promotes the kinase to phosphorylate D3Rs at a selective serine site (S229). In accumbal neurons in vivo, CaMKIIalpha is recruited to D3Rs by rising Ca(2+) to increase the CaMKIIalpha-mediated phosphorylation of D3Rs, thereby transiently inhibiting D3R efficacy. Notably, the D3R inhibition is critical for integrating dopamine signaling to control behavioral sensitivity to the psychostimulant cocaine. Our data identify CaMKIIalpha as a recruitable regulator of dopamine receptor function. By binding and phosphorylating limbic D3Rs, CaMKIIalpha modulates dopamine signaling and psychomotor function in an activity-dependent manner.
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- Xian-Yu Liu
- Department of Basic Medical Science, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
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Deguchi A, Hata M, Uhara T, Yamauchi T. Domain structure responsible for the different properties between alpha and beta Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II analyzed by their chimera enzymes. Brain Res 2008; 1238:1-11. [PMID: 18703025 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2008] [Revised: 07/07/2008] [Accepted: 07/11/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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To understand the domain structure responsible for different enzymatic properties, we constructed chimera cDNAs of the alpha and beta isoforms of Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II). The chimera DNAs were expressed in neuroblastoma cells, and the affinity for calmodulin and the subcellular localization of chimera enzymes were investigated. Here, we found that the region in immediately N-terminal of the calmodulin-binding site (exons 10 and 11), including the autophosphorylation site, mainly affected the affinity of each isoform for calmodulin and that the N-terminal region (exons 1 and 2), including the ATP-binding site, modified the affinity for calmodulin of each isoform. It was confirmed that the association of beta CaM kinase II with the particulate fraction was determined by beta-specific insertion, and also found that the association with the particulate fraction was modified by exons 1 and 2 of each isoform. Kinases without beta-specific insertion and chimera kinases consisting of exons 1 and 2 of beta and other regions of alpha appeared reduced in the transport of kinases to neurite. These results indicated that the structure of exons 10 and 11 and exons 1 and 2 modified the properties of CaM kinase II holoenzyme.
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- Akiko Deguchi
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Health Biosciences and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
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