title: Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II: identification of threonine-286 as the autophosphorylation site in the alpha subunit associated with the generation of Ca2+-independent activity.
abstract: Autophosphorylation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II converts the enzyme to a Ca2+-independent form. The time course for this conversion correlates with the autophosphorylation of a threonine residue located within a thermolytic phosphopeptide common to the alpha and beta/beta' subunits. In the present study, this site was identified in the alpha subunit. After autophosphorylation under conditions that produced near-maximal Ca2+-independent activity, the alpha and beta/beta' subunits were separated by NaDodSO4/PAGE, and the alpha subunit was cleaved with cyanogen bromide. The major phosphopeptide (CB-1), containing phosphothreonine as the only radiolabeled amino acid, was purified by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography and subjected to automated gas-phase Edman degradation. The sequence obtained, Xaa-Arg-Gln-Glu-Thr-Val-Asp-Xaa-Leu-Lys-Lys-Phe-Asn-Ala-Arg-Arg-Lys-Leu, represented the NH2-terminal 18 residues (residues 282-299) of a 26-amino acid cyanogen bromide peptide predicted from the deduced primary structure of the alpha subunit and contained a consensus sequence for Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase II phosphorylation that included Thr-286. The sequences obtained for two phosphopeptides derived from secondary chymotryptic digestion of CB-1 confirmed that Thr-286 was the phosphorylated residue.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Thiel
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Czernik
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gorelick
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Nairn
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Greengard
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology; D002118:Calcium / Q000494:pharmacology; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases; D003488:Cyanogen Bromide; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000032:analysis; D010748:Phosphopeptides / Q000032:analysis; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D013912:Threonine
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D010748:Phosphopeptides; D013912:Threonine; D011494:Protein Kinases; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases; D003488:Cyanogen Bromide; D002118:Calcium