NDLI: Structural rearrangement of CaMKIIα catalytic domains encodes activation

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Author	Thaler, Christopher Koushik, Srinagesh V. Puhl, Henry L. Blank, Paul S. Vogel, Steven S.
Abstract	At its fundamental level, human memory is thought to occur at individual synaptic contact sites and manifest as persistent changes in synaptic efficacy. In digital electronics, the fundamental structure for implementing memory is the flip-flop switch, a circuit that can be triggered to flip between two stable states. Recently, crystals of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IIα (CaMKIIα) catalytic domains, the enzymatic portion of a dodecameric holoenzyme involved in memory, were found to form dimers [Rosenberg OS, Deindl S, Sung RJ, Nairn AC, Kuriyan J (2005) Structure of the autoinhibited kinase domain of CaMKII and SAXS analysis of the holoenzyme. Cell 123:849–860]. Although the formation of dimers in the intact holoenzyme has not been established, several features of the crystal structure suggest that dimers could act as a synaptic switch. ATP-binding sites were occluded, and the T286 autophosphorylation site responsible for persistent kinase activation was buried. These features would act to stabilize an autoinhibited “paired”-enzyme state. Ca2+-calmodulin binding was postulated to trigger the formation of an active state with unpaired catalytic domains. This conformation would allow ATP access and expose T286, autophosphorylation of which would act to maintain the “unpaired” conformation. We used fluorescence anisotropy and FRET imaging of Venus-tagged CaMKIIα to test the hypothesis that neuronal CaMKIIα can flip between two stable conformations in living cells. Our data support the existence of catalytic domain pairs, and glutamate receptor activation in neurons triggered an increase in anisotropy consistent with a structural transition from a paired to unpaired conformation.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901913106
Ending Page	6374
Page Count	6
Starting Page	6369
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00278424
e-ISSN	10916490
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue Number	15
Volume Number	106
Language	English
Publisher	National Academy of Sciences
Publisher Date	2009-04-14
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	National Academy of Sciences
Subject Keyword	General Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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