TY - JOUR
T1 - Interactions between αcaMKII and calmodulin in living cells
T2 - Conformational changes arising from CaM -dependent and -independent relationships
AU - Kato, Ken Ichi
AU - Iwamoto, Taku
AU - Kida, Satoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
S.K. was supported by Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research (B) (23300120 and 20380078), Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research on Priority Areas -Molecular Brain Science-(18022038 and 22022039), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area) (24116008 and 23115716), Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan, The Sumitomo Foundation, Japan and the Takeda Science Foundation, Japan. We thank to S. Yajima and D. Iino for gel filtration data collection.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Background: αCaMKII plays central and essential roles in long-term potentiation (LTP), learning and memory. αCaMKII is activated via binding with CaCaM in response to elevated Caconcentration. Furthermore, prolonged increase in Caconcentration leads to the auto-phosphorylation of αCaMKII at T286, maintaining the activation of αCaMKII even after CaCaM dissociation. Importantly, the active form of αCaMKII is thought to exhibit conformational change. In order to elucidate the relationships between the interaction of αCaMKII with CaM and the conformational change of αCaMKII, we generated molecular probes (YFP-αCaMKII with CFP-CaM and YFP-αCaMKII-CFP) and performed time-lapse imaging of the interaction with CaM and the conformational change, respectively, in living cells using FRET. Results: The interaction of YFP-αCaMKII with CFP-CaM and the conformational change of YFP-αCaMKII-CFP were induced simultaneously in response to increased concentrations of Ca Consistent with previous predictions, high levels of Casignaling maintained the conformational change of YFP-αCaMKII-CFP at the time when CFP-CaM was released from YFP-αCaMKII. These observations indicated the transfer of αCaMKII conformational change from CaM-dependence to CaM-independence. Furthermore, analyses using αCaMKII mutants showed that phosphorylation at T286 and T305/306 played positive and negative roles, respectively, during in vivo interaction with CaM and further suggested that CaM-dependent and CaM-independent conformational changed forms displays similar but distinct structures. Conclusions: Importantly, these structual differences between CaM-dependent and -independent forms of αCaMKII may exhibit differential functions for αCaMKII, such as interactions with other molecules required for LTP and memory. Our molecular probes could thus be used to identify therapeutic targets for cognitive disorders that are associated with the misregulation of αCaMKII.
AB - Background: αCaMKII plays central and essential roles in long-term potentiation (LTP), learning and memory. αCaMKII is activated via binding with CaCaM in response to elevated Caconcentration. Furthermore, prolonged increase in Caconcentration leads to the auto-phosphorylation of αCaMKII at T286, maintaining the activation of αCaMKII even after CaCaM dissociation. Importantly, the active form of αCaMKII is thought to exhibit conformational change. In order to elucidate the relationships between the interaction of αCaMKII with CaM and the conformational change of αCaMKII, we generated molecular probes (YFP-αCaMKII with CFP-CaM and YFP-αCaMKII-CFP) and performed time-lapse imaging of the interaction with CaM and the conformational change, respectively, in living cells using FRET. Results: The interaction of YFP-αCaMKII with CFP-CaM and the conformational change of YFP-αCaMKII-CFP were induced simultaneously in response to increased concentrations of Ca Consistent with previous predictions, high levels of Casignaling maintained the conformational change of YFP-αCaMKII-CFP at the time when CFP-CaM was released from YFP-αCaMKII. These observations indicated the transfer of αCaMKII conformational change from CaM-dependence to CaM-independence. Furthermore, analyses using αCaMKII mutants showed that phosphorylation at T286 and T305/306 played positive and negative roles, respectively, during in vivo interaction with CaM and further suggested that CaM-dependent and CaM-independent conformational changed forms displays similar but distinct structures. Conclusions: Importantly, these structual differences between CaM-dependent and -independent forms of αCaMKII may exhibit differential functions for αCaMKII, such as interactions with other molecules required for LTP and memory. Our molecular probes could thus be used to identify therapeutic targets for cognitive disorders that are associated with the misregulation of αCaMKII.
KW - CaMKII
KW - Calmodulin
KW - Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)
KW - Imaging
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U2 - 10.1186/1756-6606-6-37
DO - 10.1186/1756-6606-6-37
M3 - Article
C2 - 23958294
AN - SCOPUS:84883200847
SN - 1756-6606
VL - 6
JO - Molecular Brain
JF - Molecular Brain
IS - 1
M1 - 37
ER -