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Plato's cave algorithm: inferring functional signaling networks from early gene expression shadows. PLoS Comput Biol 2010; 6:e1000828. [PMID: 20585619 PMCID: PMC2891706 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2009] [Accepted: 05/21/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Improving the ability to reverse engineer biochemical networks is a major goal of systems biology. Lesions in signaling networks lead to alterations in gene expression, which in principle should allow network reconstruction. However, the information about the activity levels of signaling proteins conveyed in overall gene expression is limited by the complexity of gene expression dynamics and of regulatory network topology. Two observations provide the basis for overcoming this limitation: a. genes induced without de-novo protein synthesis (early genes) show a linear accumulation of product in the first hour after the change in the cell's state; b. The signaling components in the network largely function in the linear range of their stimulus-response curves. Therefore, unlike most genes or most time points, expression profiles of early genes at an early time point provide direct biochemical assays that represent the activity levels of upstream signaling components. Such expression data provide the basis for an efficient algorithm (Plato's Cave algorithm; PLACA) to reverse engineer functional signaling networks. Unlike conventional reverse engineering algorithms that use steady state values, PLACA uses stimulated early gene expression measurements associated with systematic perturbations of signaling components, without measuring the signaling components themselves. Besides the reverse engineered network, PLACA also identifies the genes detecting the functional interaction, thereby facilitating validation of the predicted functional network. Using simulated datasets, the algorithm is shown to be robust to experimental noise. Using experimental data obtained from gonadotropes, PLACA reverse engineered the interaction network of six perturbed signaling components. The network recapitulated many known interactions and identified novel functional interactions that were validated by further experiment. PLACA uses the results of experiments that are feasible for any signaling network to predict the functional topology of the network and to identify novel relationships.
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Song MS, Seo HS, Yang M, Kim JS, Kim SH, Kim JC, Wang H, Sim KB, Kim H, Shin T, Moon C. Activation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II α in the spinal cords of rats with clip compression injury. Brain Res 2009; 1271:114-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.03.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2008] [Revised: 03/12/2009] [Accepted: 03/12/2009] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Miyamoto E. Molecular Mechanism of Neuronal Plasticity: Induction and Maintenance of Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampus. J Pharmacol Sci 2006; 100:433-42. [PMID: 16799259 DOI: 10.1254/jphs.cpj06007x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Recent studies have demonstrated that activation of enzymes can be observed in living cells in response to stimulation with neurotransmitters, hormones, growth factors, and so forth. Thus, the activation of enzymes was shown to be closely related to the dynamic states of various cell functions. The development of new experimental methodologies has enabled researchers to study the molecular basis of neuronal plasticity in living cells. In 1973, Bliss and his associates identified the phenomena of long-term potentiation (LTP). Since it was thought to be a model for neuronal plasticity such as learning and memory, its molecular mechanism has been extensively investigated. The mechanism was found to involve a signal transduction cascade that includes release of glutamate, activation of the NMDA glutamate receptors, Ca(2+) entry, and activations of Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases (CaM kinases) II and IV and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK). Consequently, AMPA glutamate receptors were activated by phosphorylation by CaM kinase II, resulting in an increase of Ca(2+) entry into postsynaptic neurons. Furthermore, activation of CaM kinase IV and MAPK increased phosphorylation of CREB (cyclic AMP response element binding protein) and expression of c-Fos by stimulation of gene expression. These results suggest that LTP induction and maintenance would be models of short- and long-term memory, respectively.
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- Eishichi Miyamoto
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
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Harvey BP, Banga SS, Ozer HL. Regulation of the Multifunctional Ca2+/Calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase II by the PP2C Phosphatase PPM1F in Fibroblasts. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:24889-98. [PMID: 15140879 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m400656200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The regulation of the multifunctional calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) by serine/threonine protein phosphatases has been extensively studied in neuronal cells; however, this regulation has not been investigated previously in fibroblasts. We cloned a cDNA from SV40-transformed human fibroblasts that shares 80% homology to a rat calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase phosphatase that encodes a PPM1F protein. By using extracts from transfected cells, PPM1F, but not a mutant (R326A) in the conserved catalytic domain, was found to dephosphorylate in vitro a peptide corresponding to the auto-inhibitory region of CaMKII. Further analyses demonstrated that PPM1F specifically dephosphorylates the phospho-Thr-286 in autophosphorylated CaMKII substrate and thus deactivates the CaMKII in vitro. Coimmunoprecipitation of CaMKII with PPM1F indicates that the two proteins can interact intracellularly. Binding of PPM1F to CaMKII involves multiple regions and is not dependent on intact phosphatase activity. Furthermore, overexpression of PPM1F in fibroblasts caused a reduction in the CaMKII-specific phosphorylation of the known substrate vimentin(Ser-82) following induction of the endogenous CaM kinase. These results identify PPM1F as a CaM kinase phosphatase within fibroblasts, although it may have additional functions intracellularly since it has been presented elsewhere as POPX2 and hFEM-2. We conclude that PPM1F, possibly together with the other previously described protein phosphatases PP1 and PP2A, can regulate the activity of CaMKII. Moreover, because PPM1F dephosphorylates the critical autophosphorylation site of CaMKII, we propose that this phosphatase plays a key role in the regulation of the kinase intracellularly.
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- Bohdan P Harvey
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-New Jersey Medical School and UMDNJ-Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Newark, New Jersey 07101, USA
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Kasahara J, Fukunaga K, Miyamoto E. Activation of CA(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV in cultured rat hippocampal neurons. J Neurosci Res 2000; 59:594-600. [PMID: 10686587 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4547(20000301)59:5<594::aid-jnr2>3.0.co;2-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CaM kinase IV) is a multifunctional enzyme that is abundantly present in the nuclei of neurons. We report the properties of phosphorylation and activation of CaM kinase IV in comparison to CaM kinase II in cultured rat hippocampal neurons. Phosphorylation and activity of CaM kinase IV as well as CaM kinase II were increased by treatment of neurons either with glutamate or high K(+). Glutamate-induced phosphorylation and activity of CaM kinase IV were blocked by N-methyl-D-asparate (NMDA) antagonists, and NMDA application instead of glutamate did increase CaM kinase IV phosphorylation. CaM kinase IV phosphorylation was also increased by alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA), and was blocked by an inhibitor of NMDA receptor. The AMPA-induced phosphorylation was blocked by tetrodotoxin, a Na(+) channel blocker, that was expected to block endogenous glutamate transmission indirectly. On the other hand, high K(+)-induced phosphorylation and activation were not blocked by inhibitors of glutamate receptors, and effectively blocked by nifedipine, an L-type Ca(2+) channel blocker. These properties were similar between CaM kinase IV and CaM kinase II.
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- J Kasahara
- Department of Pharmacology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, Japan
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Famulski KS, Paterson MC. Defective regulation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in gamma-irradiated ataxia telangiectasia fibroblasts. FEBS Lett 1999; 453:183-6. [PMID: 10403399 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00664-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Recent indirect evidence suggests that a Ca2+/ calmodulin-dependent pathway, which may involve calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII), mediates the S-phase delay manifested by gamma-ray-exposed human fibroblasts. This pathway is severely impaired in ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) cells [Mirzayans et al. (1995) Oncogene 11, 15971. To extend these findings, we assayed CaMKII activity in irradiated normal and A-T fibroblasts. The radiation treatment induced the autonomous activity of the kinase in normal cells. In contrast, this activity was not elevated in either (i) normal cells pretreated with the selective CaMKII antagonist KN-62 or (ii) gamma-irradiated A-T cells. Moreover, A-T fibroblasts, unlike normal cells, failed to mobilize intracellular Ca2+ upon mitogenic stimulation. These findings identify a novel role for CaMKII in radiation-induced signal transduction and suggest its involvement in effecting the S-phase delay. The data also implicate ATM, the product of the gene responsible for A-T, as a key mediator of both intracellular Ca2+ mobilization and CaMKII activation in response not only to genotoxic stress but also to physiological stimuli.
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- K S Famulski
- Department of Biological and Medical Research, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Kasahara J, Fukunaga K, Miyamoto E. Differential effects of a calcineurin inhibitor on glutamate-induced phosphorylation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases in cultured rat hippocampal neurons. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:9061-7. [PMID: 10085155 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.13.9061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases (CaM kinases) are major multifunctional enzymes that play important roles in calcium-mediated signal transduction. To characterize their regulatory mechanisms in neurons, we compared glutamate-induced phosphorylation of CaM kinase IV and CaM kinase II in cultured rat hippocampal neurons. We observed that dephosphorylation of these kinases followed different time courses, suggesting different regulatory mechanisms for each kinase. Okadaic acid, an inhibitor of protein phosphatase (PP) 1 and PP2A, increased the phosphorylation of both kinases. In contrast, cyclosporin A, an inhibitor of calcineurin, showed different effects: the phosphorylation and activity of CaM kinase IV were significantly increased with this inhibitor, but those of CaM kinase II were not significantly increased. Cyclosporin A treatment of neurons increased phosphorylation of Thr196 of CaM kinase IV, the activated form with CaM kinase kinase, which was recognized with an anti-phospho-Thr196 antibody. Moreover, recombinant CaM kinase IV was dephosphorylated and inactivated with calcineurin as well as with PP1, PP2A, and PP2C in vitro. These results suggest that CaM kinase IV, but not CaM kinase II, is directly regulated with calcineurin.
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- J Kasahara
- Department of Pharmacology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto 860-0811, Japan
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Morris TA, DeLorenzo RJ, Tombes RM. CaMK-II inhibition reduces cyclin D1 levels and enhances the association of p27kip1 with Cdk2 to cause G1 arrest in NIH 3T3 cells. Exp Cell Res 1998; 240:218-27. [PMID: 9596994 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1997.3925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The calmodulin-dependent protein kinase-II (CaMK-II) inhibitor KN-93 has been shown to reversibly arrest mouse and human cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle [Tombes, R. M., Westin, E., Grant. S., and Krystal, G. (1995) Cell Growth Differ. 6, 1073-1070; Rasmussen, G., and Rasmussen, C. (1995) Biochem. Cell Biol. 71, 201-207]. The stimulation of Ca(2+)-independent (autonomous) CaMK-II enzymatic activity, a barometer of in situ activated CaMK-II, was prevented by the same KN-93 concentrations that cause G1 phase arrest. KN-93 caused the retinoblastoma protein pRB to become dephosphorylated and the activity of both cdk2 and cdk4, two potential pRb kinases, to decrease. Neither the activity of p42MAP kinase, an early response G1 signaling molecule, nor the phosphorylation status or DNA-binding capability of the transcription factors serum response factor and cAMP responsive element-binding protein was altered during this G1 arrest. The protein levels of cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (cdk2) and cdk4 were unaffected during this G1 arrest and the total cellular levels of the cdk inhibitors p21cip1 and p27kip1 were not increased. Instead, the cdk4 activity decreases resulting from KN-93 were the result of a 75% decrease in cyclin D1 levels. In contrast, cyclin A and E levels were relatively constant. Cdk2 activity decreases were primarily the result of enhanced p27kip1 association with cdk2/cyclin E. All of these phenomena were unaffected by KN-93's inactive analog, KN-92, and were reversible upon KN-93 washout. The kinetics of recovery from cell cycle arrest were similar to those reported for other G1 phase blockers. These results suggest a mechanism by which G1 Ca2+ signals could be linked via calmodulin-dependent phosphorylations to the cell cycle-controlling machinery through cyclins and cdk inhibitors.
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- T A Morris
- Massey Cancer Center, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298-0230, USA
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Ohta Y, Hartwig JH. Phosphorylation of actin-binding protein 280 by growth factors is mediated by p90 ribosomal protein S6 kinase. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:11858-64. [PMID: 8662682 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.20.11858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Although Ras-related small GTPases are believed to control cell proliferation and motility through activation of protein kinase cascades, little is known about the intracellular protein targets of activated kinases. Here we show that the p90 ribosomal S6 kinase 2 (RSK2) phosphorylates actin-binding protein (ABP-280) in intact rat 3Y1 fibroblasts. Growth factors such as fetal calf serum, epidermal growth factor, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, and lysophosphatidic acid stimulate the phosphorylation of serine residues in ABP-280 in quiescent 3Y1 cells. Extracts from 3Y1 cells prepared after stimulation by lysophosphatidic acid, fetal calf serum, and epidermal growth factor retain activated protein kinase activity(s) toward ABP-280 in vitro. ABP kinase activities in lysates from lysophosphatidic acid-stimulated 3Y1 cells can be fractionated by MonoQ anion exchange column chromatography into three peaks having ABP kinase activities. One (ABP kinase peak 1) coelutes with the peak of RSK2 as judged by immunoblotting and S6 peptide kinase assays. Two-dimensional phosphopeptide maps show RSK2 phosphorylated ABP-280 to be phosphorylated at the same site(s) as those stimulated by growth factors in vivo. Incubation of ABP kinase peak 1 fractionated from unstimulated cells with activated ERK2 activates latent ABP kinase activity. These results show RSK2 to phosphorylate ABP-280 in vivo.
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- Y Ohta
- Division of Experimental Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Robinson WH, Neuman de Vegvar HE, Prohaska SS, Rhee JW, Parnes JR. Human CD6 possesses a large, alternatively spliced cytoplasmic domain. Eur J Immunol 1995; 25:2765-9. [PMID: 7589069 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830251008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Human CD6 is a monomeric 105/130-kDa T cell surface glycoprotein that is involved in T cell activation. The apparent discrepancy between the size of the cytoplasmic domain in human (44 amino acids) and mouse (243 amino acids) CD6, led us to use reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction of human peripheral blood lymphocyte mRNA to isolate cDNA clones that include the carboxyl-terminal coding region of human CD6. The nucleotide sequence of the longest human cDNA clone, CD6-PB1, predicts a protein of 668 amino acids with a 244-amino acid cytoplasmic domain similar in size to and possessing 71.5% amino acid sequence identity with the cytoplasmic domain of mouse CD6. This previously unrecognized 244-amino acid cytoplasmic domain does not have significant homology to any other known protein (except mouse CD6), but does possess two proline-rich motifs containing the SH3 domain-binding consensus sequence, a serine-threonine-rich motif repeated three times, three protein kinase C phosphorylation-site motifs, and 10 casein kinase-2 phosphorylation-site motifs. These sequences are likely to play a role in the ability of CD6-specific monoclonal antibodies to stimulate T cell proliferation. Full-length CD6 cDNA containing this cytoplasmic domain sequence encodes a monomeric 105/130-kDa protein that can be immunoprecipitated from the surface of transfected cells and comigrates upon SDS-PAGE with wild-type CD6 immunoprecipitated from PBL. We also isolated two alternatively spliced forms of human CD6 cDNA lacking sequences encoding membrane-proximal regions of the cytoplasmic domain which maintain the same reading frame as CD6-PB1. The short cytoplasmic domain of the previously reported human CD6-15 cDNA clone results from a deletion of a 20-bp segment through use of an alternative 3' splice site, resulting in a frame shift and premature termination of translation relative to the clones we have isolated. These data demonstrate that human CD6 possesses a large cytoplasmic domain containing sequence motifs that are likely to be involved in signal transduction upon stimulation of T cells through CD6 ligation.
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- W H Robinson
- Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305-5487, USA
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Inokuchi N, Zeki K, Morimoto I, Nakano Y, Fujihira T, Yamashita U, Yanagihara N, Izumi F, Eto S. Stimulatory effect of interleukin-1 alpha on proliferation through a Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent pathway of a human thyroid carcinoma cell line, NIM 1. Jpn J Cancer Res 1995; 86:670-6. [PMID: 7559085 PMCID: PMC5920890 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1995.tb02451.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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NIM 1 cells, a human thyroid cell line established from a patient with thyroid papillary adenocarcinoma, produce cytokines such as interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha) and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor. In the present study, we investigated the signal transduction pathway in the proliferation of NIM 1 cells evoked by IL-1 alpha. Incubation of NIM 1 cells with IL-1 alpha for 48 h increased the incorporation of 3H-thymidine (3H-TdR). The stimulatory effect of IL-1 alpha was evident at 0.01 ng/ml and the maximal effect was seen at 10 ng/ml. IL-1 alpha evoked an influx of 45Ca into NIM 1 cells within 3 min in a concentration-dependent manner (0.01-1 ng/ml). These stimulatory effects of IL-1 alpha on both 3H-TdR incorporation and 45Ca influx were similarly inhibited by nicardipine, an inhibitor of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels, in a concentration-dependent manner (10-1000 nM). The stimulatory effect of IL-1 alpha on 3H-TdR incorporation was inhibited by N-(6-aminohexyl)-5-chloro-1-naphthalenesulfonamide (W-7), an antagonist of calmodulin, but not by 1-(5-isoquinoline sulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine (H-7), an inhibitor of protein kinase C. While the culture medium initially contained 0.75 mM Ca2+, inhibition of 3H-TdR incorporation by nicardipine and W-7 under these baseline conditions was also recognized. These results suggest that IL-1 alpha stimulates cell proliferation through a Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent pathway in NIM 1 cells.
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- N Inokuchi
- First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu
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Onodera H, Yamasaki Y, Kogure K, Miyamoto E. Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and protein phosphatase 2B (calcineurin) immunoreactivity in the rat hippocampus long after ischemia. Brain Res 1995; 684:95-8. [PMID: 7583210 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00382-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (kinase II) and protein phosphatase 2B (calcineurin) immunoreactivity in the rat hippocampus was studied 100 days after ischemic damage to hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. One-hundred days after ischemia, only a few CA1 pyramidal neurons survived and they exhibited enhanced kinase II and calcineurin immunoreactivity in their basal and apical dendrites. The stratum lucidum of the CA3 (mossy fiber terminal area) had enhanced kinase II and calcineurin immunoreactivity. These results suggest activity-dependent regulation and redistribution of kinase II and calcineurin after intervention in neuronal circuitry.
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- H Onodera
- Department of Neurology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Ohta Y, Hartwig JH. Actin filament cross-linking by chicken gizzard filamin is regulated by phosphorylation in vitro. Biochemistry 1995; 34:6745-54. [PMID: 7756305 DOI: 10.1021/bi00020a020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Filamin is a dimeric muscle phosphoprotein that cross-links actin filaments. We have found that purified chicken gizzard filamin is phosphorylated in vitro at serine residues by the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II). Up to 0.9 mol of phosphate can be incorporated into 1 mol of filamin dimer. Phosphorylation by CaM kinase II increases filamin's critical actin filament gelling concentration and diminishes the amount of actin sedimented by filamin at low G-force. The modulation of filamin function by CaM kinase II requires ATP, Ca2+, and calmodulin, and it is abolished when CaM kinase II is inactivated with heat. Protein phosphatase 2A removed the phosphate added by CaM kinase II and restored filamin's actin filament cross-linking activity to the untreated basal level. In cosedimentation experiments, phosphorylation reduces the binding of filamin to actin filaments. The Kd for binding of filamin to actin filaments increases approximately 2-fold, from 3.2 to 6.9 microM, following CaM kinase II-mediated phosphorylation. Phosphorylation by CaM kinase II, therefore, regulates the binding of filamin to actin filaments.
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- Y Ohta
- Division of Experimental Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Yano S, Fukunaga K, Ushio Y, Miyamoto E. Activation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and phosphorylation of intermediate filament proteins by stimulation of glutamate receptors in cultured rat cortical astrocytes. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)37704-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Takamatsu Y, Ohsako S, Nishida Y, Yamauchi T. Identification of an alternative form of the Drosophila Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II that is maternally derived. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1220:188-92. [PMID: 8312362 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(94)90134-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Four forms of the Drosophila Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II are generated from a single gene by alternative splicing (Ohsako et al. (1993) J. Biol. Chem. 268, 2052-2062). We identified a fifth form of the cDNA encoding the enzyme expressed in the ovary, unfertilized egg and early embryos by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, which suggests that it is maternally derived. The fifth form was also generated from the gene by alternative splicing and was identical to the cDNA encoding the 530-amino-acid polypeptide, the longest of the four forms previously identified, except that it lacked exon 11. Three splicing derivatives which lost one amino acid from the 509- and 530-amino-acid polypeptides were also found in 4 to 10 h embryos.
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- Y Takamatsu
- Department of Cell Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Japan
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Smith JA, Francis SH, Corbin JD. Autophosphorylation: a salient feature of protein kinases. Mol Cell Biochem 1993; 127-128:51-70. [PMID: 7935362 DOI: 10.1007/bf01076757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Most protein kinases catalyze autophosphorylation, a process which is generally intramolecular and is modulated by regulatory ligands. Either serine/threonine or tyrosine serves as the phosphoacceptor, and several sites on the same kinase subunit are usually autophosphorylated. Autophosphorylation affects the functional properties of most protein kinases. Members of the protein kinase family exhibit diversity in the characteristics and functions of autophosphorylation, but certain common themes are emerging.
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- J A Smith
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-0615
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Nakayama T, Hashimoto Y, Kaneko Y, Yoshida M, Beppu T, Ohmi K, Yamashita S, Nonomura Y, Kurokawa K. K252a: a new blocker of the cell-cycle at G1 phase in a human hepatoma cell line. EXPERIENTIA 1993; 49:876-80. [PMID: 8224104 DOI: 10.1007/bf01952601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The administration of 200 nM K252a to HuH7 suppressed the proliferation of the cells almost completely. The uptake of [3H]thymidine was inhibited, and flow cytometry revealed only one peak at 2C on day 3 after treatment with 100 nM K252a. The expression of proto-oncogene c-myc was not reduced. Despite the blockage at G1, both the size of the cells and the amount of cell protein had increased by 4 times by day 3 after treatment with K252a, while the cells secreted albumin and alpha-fetoprotein into the medium as usual. These results show that K252a can increase the cell size of HuH7 without losing its function by blocking the cell cycle at G1 phase.
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- T Nakayama
- First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Hanissian S, Frangakis M, Bland M, Jawahar S, Chatila T. Expression of a Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase, CaM kinase-Gr, in human T lymphocytes. Regulation of kinase activity by T cell receptor signaling. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)80693-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Ohsako S, Nishida Y, Ryo H, Yamauchi T. Molecular characterization and expression of the Drosophila Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II gene. Identification of four forms of the enzyme generated from a single gene by alternative splicing. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53961-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Yamakawa T, Fukunaga K, Higashida H, Miyamoto E. Activation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II by stimulation with bradykinin in neuroblastoma x glioma hybrid NG108-15 cells. Brain Res 1992; 597:220-6. [PMID: 1335347 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(92)91477-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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To elucidate the mechanisms of the intracellular signal transduction elicited with bradykinin in NG108-15 neuroblastoma x glioma hybrid cells, we examined the activation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II) by bradykinin stimulation. When the extract of NG108-15 cells was immunoprecipitated with the affinity-purified antibody to brain CaM kinase II, a 50-kDa protein in the immunoprecipitate mainly became autophosphorylated in a Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent manner. The results suggest that the 50-kDa protein is the subunit of CaM kinase II in NG108-15 cells. The Ca2+/calmodulin-independent activity (autonomous activity) of the enzyme increased twice within 10 s by stimulation with 1 microM bradykinin in the cells. The increase in the autonomous activity of the enzyme had two phases: the transient early-peak phase and the long late-plateau phase. The former was abolished by the pretreatment of the cells with 10 mM caffeine or 20 microM BAPTA-AM, and the latter was abolished by the removal of the extracellular Ca2+ with 1 mM EGTA or by the pretreatment with 1 microM nifedipine. Stimulation of 32P-labeled NG108-15 cells with 1 microM bradykinin increased the autophosphorylation of CaM kinase II and this increase was abolished by pretreatment with caffeine or BAPTA-AM. These results suggest that CaM kinase II is activated via the inositol phospholipid signaling pathway induced with bradykinin in NG108-15 cells.
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- T Yamakawa
- Department of Pharmacology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Japan
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Fukunaga K, Soderling T, Miyamoto E. Activation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and protein kinase C by glutamate in cultured rat hippocampal neurons. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)41704-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Morioka M, Fukunaga K, Yasugawa S, Nagahiro S, Ushio Y, Miyamoto E. Regional and temporal alterations in Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and calcineurin in the hippocampus of rat brain after transient forebrain ischemia. J Neurochem 1992; 58:1798-809. [PMID: 1313854 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1992.tb10056.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We have investigated regional and temporal alterations in Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II) and calcineurin (Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase) after transient forebrain ischemia. Immunoreactivity and enzyme activity of CaM kinase II decreased in regions CA1 and CA3, and in the dentate gyrus, of the hippocampus early (6-12 h) after ischemia, but the decrease in immunoreactivity gradually recovered over time, except in the CA1 region. Furthermore, the increase in Ca2+/calmodulin-independent activity was detected up to 3 days after ischemia in all regions tested, suggesting that the concentration of intracellular Ca2+ increased. In contrast to CaM kinase II, as immunohistochemistry and regional immunoblot analysis revealed, calcineurin was preserved in the CA1 region until 1.5 days and then lost with the increase in morphological degeneration of neurons. Immunoblot analysis confirmed the findings of the immunohistochemistry. These results suggest that there is a difference between CaM kinase II and calcineurin in regional and temporal loss after ischemia and that imbalance of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein phosphorylation-dephosphorylation may occur.
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- M Morioka
- Department of Neurosurgery, Kumamoto University Medical School, Japan
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Mechanism of desensitization of the epidermal growth factor receptor protein-tyrosine kinase. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)48406-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Neary JT, Laskey R, van Breemen C, Blicharska J, Norenberg LO, Norenberg MD. ATP-evoked calcium signal stimulates protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation in astrocytes. Brain Res 1991; 566:89-94. [PMID: 1814559 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(91)91684-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Extracellular adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP)-evoked increases in intracellular calcium and the consequent stimulation of calcium-mediated protein phosphorylation systems were investigated in primary cultures of rat cerebral cortical astrocytes. Measurement of calcium responses in fura-2-loaded astrocytes indicated that extracellular ATP stimulated a transient calcium peak followed by a sustained increase in intracellular calcium which declined to baseline when external calcium was removed, thereby indicating that ATP evokes mobilization of internal calcium as well as influx of external calcium. Protein phosphorylation studies revealed that application of extracellular ATP resulted in increased phosphorylation of 55 and 52 kDa proteins (4-fold and 2-fold, respectively) and decreased phosphorylation of 24 and 21 kDa proteins (approximately 50% for each protein). These effects were time- and dose-dependent. The changes in phosphate incorporation were (a) inhibited by lanthanum, (b) reduced when calcium was omitted from the bath and (c) mimicked by ionomycin, thus suggesting that the ATP-induced changes in protein phosphorylation were dependent on increased levels of intracellular calcium. Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) gave similar, but reduced, effects while adenosine and guanosine triphosphate (GTP) were ineffective, findings consistent with activation of P2 purinergic receptors. The 52 kDa protein co-migrated with glial fibrillary acidic protein. These results support the premise that calcium-dependent protein kinases and phosphatases are transducing elements for the calcium signal brought about by activation of P2 purinergic receptors in astrocytes. Since ATP is released from neurons and endothelial cells, this signal transduction mechanism may be an important component of neuronal- and endothelial-astrocytic communication.
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- J T Neary
- Laboratory of Neuropathology, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Miami, FL 33125
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Hashimoto Y, Nakayama T, Teramoto T, Kato H, Watanabe T, Kinoshita M, Tsukamoto K, Tokunaga K, Kurokawa K, Nakanishi S. Potent and preferential inhibition of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II by K252a and its derivative, KT5926. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1991; 181:423-9. [PMID: 1659814 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(05)81436-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Effects of protein kinase inhibitors, K252a and its derivative KT5926, on Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II were examined. Both compounds potently inhibited Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II. Kinetic analyses indicated that the inhibitory effect of K252a and KT5926 was competitive with respect to ATP (Ki: 1.8 and 4.4 nM, respectively) and noncompetitive with respect to the substrates. Taken together with a previous report (Nakanishi et al. Mol. Pharmacol. 37, 482, 1990) concerning the Ki values of these compounds for ATP with various protein kinases, the results suggest that K252a and KT5926 are potent and preferential inhibitors of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II.
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- Y Hashimoto
- First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Iwatsubo T, Nakano I, Fukunaga K, Miyamoto E. Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II immunoreactivity in Lewy bodies. Acta Neuropathol 1991; 82:159-63. [PMID: 1656693 DOI: 10.1007/bf00294440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II) is one of the predominant protein kinases in the brain. We found that CaM kinase II immunoreactivity was concentrated in the peripheral halos of Lewy bodies (LBs) in Parkinson's disease and Lewy body-like hyaline inclusions (LBHIs) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. An immunoelectron microscopic examination of LBs revealed that the filaments at the periphery of LBs were decorated with immunopositive deposits. Since CaM kinase II has a broad substrate specificity and can phosphorylate neurofilaments and other cytoskeletal proteins, it may play some role in the formation of LBs and LBHIs through the aberrant phosphorylation of the cytoskeletal elements in these inclusions.
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- T Iwatsubo
- Department of Neuropathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Dunkley PR. Autophosphorylation of neuronal calcium/calmodulin-stimulated protein kinase II. Mol Neurobiol 1991; 5:179-202. [PMID: 1668385 DOI: 10.1007/bf02935545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A unique feature of neuronal calcium/calmodulin-stimulated protein kinase II (CaM-PK II) is its autophosphorylation. A number of sites are involved and, depending on the in vitro conditions used, three serine and six threonine residues have been tentatively identified as autophosphorylation sites in the alpha subunit. These sites fall into three categories. Primary sites are phosphorylated in the presence of calcium and calmodulin, but under limiting conditions of temperature, ATP, Mg2+, or time. Secondary sites are phosphorylated in the presence of calcium and calmodulin under nonlimiting conditions. Autonomous sites are phosphorylated in the absence of calcium and calmodulin after initial phosphorylation of Thr-286. Mechanisms that lead to a decrease in CaM-PK II autophosphorylation include the thermolability of the enzyme and the activity of protein phosphatases. A range of in vitro inhibitors of CaM-PK II autophosphorylation have recently been identified. Autophosphorylation of CaM-PK II leads to a number of consequences in vitro, including generation of autonomous activity and subcellular redistribution, as well as alterations in conformation, activity, calmodulin binding, substrate specificity, and susceptibility to proteolysis. It is established that CaM-PK II is autophos-phorylated in neuronal cells under basal conditions. Depolarization and/or activation of receptors that lead to an increase in intracellular calcium induces a marked rise in the autophosphorylation of CaM-PK II in situ. The incorporation of phosphate is mainly found on Thr-286, but other sites are also phosphorylated at a slower rate. One consequence of the increase in CaM-PK II autophosphorylation in situ is an increase in the level of autonomous kinase activity. It is proposed that the formation of an autonomous enzyme is only one of the consequences of CaM-PK II autophosphorylation in situ and that some of the other consequences observed in vitro will also be seen. CaM-PK II is involved in the control of neuronal plasticity, including neurotransmitter release and long-term modulation of postreceptor events. In order to understand the function of CaM-PK II, it will be essential to ascertain more fully the mechanisms of its autophosphorylation in situ, including especially the sites involved, the consequences of this autophosphorylation for the kinase activity, and the relationships between the state of CaM-PK II autophosphorylation and the physiological events within neurons.
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- P R Dunkley
- Neuroscience Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Brickey DA, Colbran RJ, Fong YL, Soderling TR. Expression and characterization of the alpha-subunit of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II using the baculovirus expression system. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1990; 173:578-84. [PMID: 2175600 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(05)80074-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Sf9 cells infected with the recombinant mouse CaMKII-alpha (Ca2+/calmodulin dependent kinase II) baculovirus expressed 12-15 mg of MCaMKII-alpha per liter of cells. Approximately 50% of the MCaMKII-alpha activity could be purified using a CaM-Sepharose affinity column. The purified MCaMKII-alpha had a M(rapp) of 50 kDa by SDS-PAGE and a native Mr of 600 kDa. MCaMKII-alpha, like rat brain CaMKII, had an A0.5 for CaM of 100 nM, a Km for syntide-2 of 8 microM, and was able to generate Ca2(+)-independent activity by autophosphorylation. The baculovirus system expressed large quantities of MCaMKII-alpha with characteristics similar to the rat brain CaMKII, thus providing an expression system for the detailed biochemical analysis of MCaMKII-alpha.
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- D A Brickey
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-0615
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Fukunaga K, Soderling TR. Activation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in cerebellar granule cells by N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor activation. Mol Cell Neurosci 1990; 1:133-8. [DOI: 10.1016/1044-7431(90)90017-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/1990] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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MacNicol M, Jefferson AB, Schulman H. Ca2+/calmodulin kinase is activated by the phosphatidylinositol signaling pathway and becomes Ca2(+)-independent in PC12 cells. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)44711-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Fong YL, Soderling TR. Studies on the regulatory domain of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II. Functional analyses of arginine 283 using synthetic inhibitory peptides and site-directed mutagenesis of the alpha subunit. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)38561-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Ahn NG, Weiel JE, Chan CP, Krebs EG. Identification of multiple epidermal growth factor-stimulated protein serine/threonine kinases from Swiss 3T3 cells. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)38423-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Onodera H, Hara H, Kogure K, Fukunaga K, Ohta Y, Miyamoto E. Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II immunoreactivity in the rat hippocampus after forebrain ischemia. Neurosci Lett 1990; 113:134-8. [PMID: 2377312 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(90)90292-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The influence of transient forebrain ischemia on the temporal alteration of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaM kinase II) in the rat hippocampus was analysed by the immunohistochemical method using antigen-affinity purified polyclonal antibodies against CaM kinase II of rat brain. Six to twenty-four hours after ischemia, CA1 and CA3 pyramidal cells, and dentate granule cells lost CaM kinase II immunoreactivity in neuronal perikarya, although immunoreactivity in the dendritic fields was preserved. The recovery of immunoreactivity of the CA3 pyramidal cells and dentate granule cells was noted 3 days after recirculation. Seven days after ischemia, immunoreactivity in the CA1 subfield was greatly reduced. These results suggest that CaM kinase II molecules in the CA1 subfield are preferentially located on the CA1 pyramidal cells and that CaM kinase II plays a critical role in the reconstruction of neuronal cytoskeleton and neuronal networks damaged by ischemic insult.
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- H Onodera
- Department of Neurology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Hashimoto Y, Soderling TR. Phosphorylation of smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II: comparative study of the phosphorylation sites. Arch Biochem Biophys 1990; 278:41-5. [PMID: 2157362 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(90)90228-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase (MLC-kinase) was rapidly phosphorylated in vitro by the autophosphorylated form of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM-kinase II) to a molar stoichiometry of 2.77 +/- 0.15 associated with a threefold increase in the concentration of calmodulin (CaM) required for half-maximal activation of MLC-kinase. Binding of CaM to MLC-kinase markedly reduced the phosphorylation stoichiometry to 0.21 +/- 0.05 and almost completely inhibited phosphorylation of sites in two peptides (32P-peptides P1 and P2) with reduced phosphorylation of peptide P3. By analogy, cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylated MLC-kinase to a stoichiometry of 3.0 or greater in the absence of CaM with about a threefold decrease in the apparent affinity of MLC-kinase for CaM. Binding of CaM to MLC-kinase inhibited the phosphorylation to 0.84 +/- 0.13. Complete tryptic digests contained two major 32P-peptides as reported previously. One of the peptides, whose phosphorylation was inhibited in the presence of excess calmodulin, appeared to be the same as P2. Automated Edman sequence analysis suggested that both CaM-kinase II and cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylated this peptide at the second of the two adjacent serine residues located at the C-terminal boundary of the CaM-binding domain. However, the other peptide phosphorylated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase, regardless of whether CaM was bound, was different from P1 and P3. Thus, MLC-kinase has a regulatory phosphorylation site(s) that is phosphorylated by the autophosphorylated form of CaM-kinase II and is blocked by Ca2+/CaM-binding.
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- Y Hashimoto
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-0615
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Tokumitsu H, Chijiwa T, Hagiwara M, Mizutani A, Terasawa M, Hidaka H. KN-62, 1-[N,O-bis(5-isoquinolinesulfonyl)-N-methyl-L-tyrosyl]-4-phenylpiperazi ne, a specific inhibitor of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)39565-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 287] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Colbran RJ, Soderling TR. Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II. CURRENT TOPICS IN CELLULAR REGULATION 1990; 31:181-221. [PMID: 2173993 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-152831-7.50007-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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There is a great deal known about the in vitro properties of CaM kinase II, both in terms of its substrate specificity and its regulation by calmodulin and autophosphorylation. Much of this characterization is based on experiments performed with the rat brain isozyme of CaM kinase II, although in the aspects examined to date isozymes of the kinase from other tissues appear to behave in a broadly similar manner in vitro. However, relatively little is known about the functions of the kinase in vivo. The proteins phosphorylated by the kinase (with the probable exception of synapsin I and tyrosine hydroxylase) and the role of kinase autophosphorylation in vivo remain largely unknown. Investigation of the physiological role of the kinase in brain and other tissues will be a particularly exciting area for future work. The current knowledge of the in vitro properties and the availability of cDNA clones will hopefully expedite this research.
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- R J Colbran
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232
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Fukunaga K, Rich DP, Soderling TR. Generation of the Ca2+-independent form of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in cerebellar granule cells. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)88259-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Ohta Y, Nishida E, Sakai H, Miyamoto E. Dephosphorylation of Cofilin Accompanies Heat Shock-induced Nuclear Accumulation of Cofilin. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)71598-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Hanson PI, Kapiloff MS, Lou LL, Rosenfeld MG, Schulman H. Expression of a multifunctional Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase and mutational analysis of its autoregulation. Neuron 1989; 3:59-70. [PMID: 2619995 DOI: 10.1016/0896-6273(89)90115-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 245] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Autophosphorylation of multifunctional Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase converts it from a Ca2(+)-dependent to a Ca2(+)-independent or autonomous kinase, a process that may underlie some long-term enhancement of transient Ca2+ signals. We demonstrate that the neuronal alpha subunit clone expressed in COS-7 cells (alpha-CaM kinase) is sufficient to encode the regulatory phenomena characteristic of the multisubunit kinase isolated from brain. Activity of alpha-CaM kinase is highly dependent on Ca2+/calmodulin. It is converted by autophosphorylation to an enzyme capable of Ca2(+)-independent (autonomous) substrate phosphorylation and autophosphorylation. Using site-directed mutagenesis, we separately eliminate five putative autophosphorylation sites within the regulatory domain and directly examine their individual roles. Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase activity is fully retained by each mutant, but Thr286 is unique among the sites in being indispensable for generation of an autonomous kinase.
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- P I Hanson
- Department of Pharmacology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5332
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TASUGAWA SETSUKO, FUKUNAGA KOHJI, YAMAMOTO HIDEYUKI, MIYAKAWA TAIHEI, MIYAMOTO EISHICHI. ACTIVATION OF Ca2+/CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II BY AUTOPHORYLATION: SPECIFIED SUBSTRATES ENHANCE THE KINASE ACTIVITY. Biomed Res 1988. [DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.9.497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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- SETSUKO TASUGAWA
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kumamoto University Medical School
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- Department of Pharmacology, Kumamoto University Medical School
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kumamoto University Medical School
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