NDLI: The Delicate Bistability of CaMKII

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Michalski, P. J.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a synaptic, autophosphorylating kinase that is essential for learning and memory. Previous models have suggested that CaMKII functions as a bistable switch that could be the molecular correlate of long-term memory, but experiments have failed to validate these predictions. These models involved significant approximations to overcome the combinatorial complexity inherent in a multisubunit, multistate system. Here, we develop a stochastic particle-based model of CaMKII activation and dynamics that overcomes combinatorial complexity without significant approximations. We report four major findings. First, the CaMKII model system is never bistable at resting calcium concentrations, which suggests that CaMKII activity does not function as the biochemical switch underlying long-term memory. Second, the steady-state activation curves are either laserlike or steplike. Both are characterized by a well-defined threshold for activation, which suggests that thresholding is a robust feature of this system. Third, transiently activated CaMKII can maintain its activity over the time course of many experiments, and such slow deactivation may account for the few reports of bistability in the literature. And fourth, under in vivo conditions, increases in phosphatase activity can increase CaMKII activity. This is a surprising and counterintuitive effect, as dephosphorylation is generally associated with CaMKII deactivation.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2013.06.038
Ending Page	806
Page Count	13
Starting Page	794
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15420086
e-ISSN	15420086
Journal	Biophysical Journal
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	105
Language	English
Publisher	The Biophysical Society
Publisher Date	2013-08-06
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	The Biophysical Society
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Biophysics

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