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Generation of autonomous activity of Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase β by autophosphorylation.

Abstract：

:Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinases (CaMKKs) phosphorylate and activate specific downstream protein kinases, including CaMKI, CaMKIV, and 5'-AMP-activated protein kinase, which mediates a variety of Ca(2+) signaling cascades. CaMKKs have been shown to undergo autophosphorylation, although their role in enzymatic regulation remains unclear. Here, we found that CaMKKα and β isoforms expressed in nonstimulated transfected COS-7 cells, as well as recombinant CaMKKs expressed in and purified from Escherichia coli, were phosphorylated at Thr residues. Introduction of a kinase-dead mutation completely impaired the Thr phosphorylation of these recombinant CaMKK isoforms. In addition, wild-type recombinant CaMKKs were unable to transphosphorylate the kinase-dead mutants, suggesting that CaMKK isoforms undergo Ca(2+)/CaM-independent autophosphorylation in an intramolecular manner. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis identified Thr(482) in the autoinhibitory domain as one of the autophosphorylation sites in CaMKKβ, but phosphorylation of the equivalent Thr residue (Thr(446)) in the α isoform was not observed. Unlike CaMKKα that has high Ca(2+)/CaM-dependent activity, wild-type CaMKKβ displays enhanced autonomous activity (Ca(2+)/CaM-independent activity, 71% of total activity). This activity was significantly reduced (to 37%) by substitution of Thr(482) with a nonphosphorylatable Ala, without significant changes in Ca(2+)/CaM binding. In addition, a CaMKKα mutant containing the CaMKKβ regulatory domain was shown to be partially phosphorylated at Thr(446), resulting in a modest elevation of its autonomous activity. The combined results indicate that, in contrast to the α isoform, CaMKKβ exhibited increased autonomous activity, which was caused, at least in part, by autophosphorylation at Thr(482), resulting in partial disruption of the autoinhibitory mechanism.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Tokumitsu H,Hatano N,Fujimoto T,Yurimoto S,Kobayashi R

doi

10.1021/bi201005g

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-09-27 00:00:00

pages

8193-201

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

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Generation of autonomous activity of Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase β by autophosphorylation.