title: Conserved and variable regions in the subunits of brain type II Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase.
abstract: Brain type II Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase is a holoenzyme composed of several copies each of three subunits, alpha (50 kd), beta (60 kd), and beta' (58 kd), in varying proportions. The deduced amino acid sequences of alpha (reported here) and beta are highly similar but not identical. The major difference between them is the deletion from alpha of two short segments (residues 316-339 and 354-392 in beta). cDNAs that appear to encode beta' are identical to beta except for the deletion of a segment encoding residues 378-392. Thus, the structural differences among alpha, beta, and beta' arise primarily from deletions (or insertions) in a variable region lying immediately carboxyl to the protein kinase and calmodulin-binding domains. The alpha and beta subunits are encoded by distinct genes expressed primarily, if not exclusively, in brain. Rather than being encoded by a third gene, beta' may arise by alternative splicing of the beta gene transcript.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125.
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Bulleit
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Bennett
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Molloy
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Hurley
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Kennedy
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology*; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D011494:Protein Kinases; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases