CaMKII Autonomy is Substrate-dependent and Further Stimulated by Ca2+/calmodulin

Overview

Journal J Biol Chem

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2010 Apr 1

PMID 20353941

Citations 68

Authors

Steven J Coultrap

Isabelle Buard

Jaqueline R Kulbe

Mark L DellAcqua

K Ulrich Bayer

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Abstract

A hallmark feature of Ca(2+)/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) regulation is the generation of Ca(2+)-independent autonomous activity by Thr-286 autophosphorylation. CaMKII autonomy has been regarded a form of molecular memory and is indeed important in neuronal plasticity and learning/memory. Thr-286-phosphorylated CaMKII is thought to be essentially fully active ( approximately 70-100%), implicating that it is no longer regulated and that its dramatically increased Ca(2+)/CaM affinity is of minor functional importance. However, this study shows that autonomy greater than 15-25% was the exception, not the rule, and required a special mechanism (T-site binding; by the T-substrates AC2 or NR2B). Autonomous activity toward regular R-substrates (including tyrosine hydroxylase and GluR1) was significantly further stimulated by Ca(2+)/CaM, both in vitro and within cells. Altered K(m) and V(max) made autonomy also substrate- (and ATP) concentration-dependent, but only over a narrow range, with remarkable stability at physiological concentrations. Such regulation still allows molecular memory of previous Ca(2+) signals, but prevents complete uncoupling from subsequent cellular stimulation.

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