1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Breakage of the oligomeric CaMKII hub by the regulatory segment of the kinase

  1. Deepti Karandur
  2. Moitrayee Bhattacharyya
  3. Zijie Xia
  4. Young Kwang Lee
  5. Serena Muratcioglu
  6. Darren McAffee
  7. Ethan D McSpadden
  8. Baiyu Qiu
  9. Jay T Groves
  10. Evan R Williams  Is a corresponding author
  11. John Kuriyan  Is a corresponding author
  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, United States
  2. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  3. San Diego State University, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57784
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  1. Deepti Karandur
  2. Moitrayee Bhattacharyya
  3. Zijie Xia
  4. Young Kwang Lee
  5. Serena Muratcioglu
  6. Darren McAffee
  7. Ethan D McSpadden
  8. Baiyu Qiu
  9. Jay T Groves
  10. Evan R Williams
  11. John Kuriyan
(2020)
Breakage of the oligomeric CaMKII hub by the regulatory segment of the kinase
eLife 9:e57784.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57784
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Abstract

Ca2+/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is an oligomeric enzyme with crucial roles in neuronal signaling and cardiac function. Previously, we showed that activation of CaMKII triggers the exchange of subunits between holoenzymes, potentially increasing the spread of the active state (Stratton et al. 2014; Bhattacharyya et al. 2016). Using mass spectrometry, we show now that unphosphorylated and phosphorylated peptides derived from the CaMKII-α regulatory segment bind to the CaMKII-α hub and break it into smaller oligomers. Molecular dynamics simulations show that the regulatory segments dock spontaneously at the interface between hub subunits, trapping large fluctuations in hub structure. Single-molecule fluorescence intensity analysis of CaMKII-α expressed in mammalian cells shows that activation of CaMKII-α results in the destabilization of the holoenzyme. Our results suggest that release of the regulatory segment by activation and phosphorylation allows it to destabilize the hub, producing smaller assemblies that might reassemble to form new holoenzymes.

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Molecular dynamics simulation trajectories are available at Pittsburg Supercomputing Center's data storage facility and are accessible at the following link: https://psc.edu/anton-project-summaries?id=3071&pid=35. Mass spectrometry data (Figure 2-4) is available via the MassIVE database under identifier MSV000086103

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  1. Deepti Karandur

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  2. Moitrayee Bhattacharyya

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  3. Zijie Xia

    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  4. Young Kwang Lee

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States
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  5. Serena Muratcioglu

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  6. Darren McAffee

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  7. Ethan D McSpadden

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  8. Baiyu Qiu

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  9. Jay T Groves

    QB3, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  10. Evan R Williams

    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  11. John Kuriyan

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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    John Kuriyan, Senior editor, eLife.
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Funding

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (K99 GM 126145)

  • Moitrayee Bhattacharyya

National Science Foundation (CHE-1609866)

  • Zijie Xia

National Science Foundation (CHE-1609866)

  • Evan R Williams

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • John Kuriyan

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Deepti Karandur
  2. Moitrayee Bhattacharyya
  3. Zijie Xia
  4. Young Kwang Lee
  5. Serena Muratcioglu
  6. Darren McAffee
  7. Ethan D McSpadden
  8. Baiyu Qiu
  9. Jay T Groves
  10. Evan R Williams
  11. John Kuriyan
(2020)
Breakage of the oligomeric CaMKII hub by the regulatory segment of the kinase
eLife 9:e57784.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57784

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