title: New alternatively spliced variants of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II from rabbit liver.
abstract: Polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed four alternatively spliced variants of each of the gamma and delta isoforms of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM-kinase II) in rabbit liver. Among the four variants of the gamma isoform, two were novel ones, designated as CaM-kinase II gamma-H and gamma-I. The gamma-I variant possessed both of the two deletable exons; D2a and D2b, which had never been found together in any variant. Sequence analysis of the gamma-I indicated that the D2a was upstream of the D2b and that they were contiguous with each other in the gamma-I. Among the four variants of the delta isoform, two were also novel ones, designated as CaM-kinase II delta-11 and delta-12, and the other two were the already-reported ones, delta-2 and delta-6. The delta-11 and delta-12 were identical to the delta-2 and delta-6, respectively, except that three bases (CAG) located at a splicing junction was deleted in the delta-11 and delta-12, suggesting two splicing sites of a single intron. Thus, the diverse splicing patterns may produce many more variants than those so far considered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Asahikawa Medical College, Hokkaido, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fujisawa
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D054732:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D014644:Genetic Variation; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000235:genetics; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011817:Rabbits; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D007527:Isoenzymes; D054732:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases