Phosphorylation and activation of nuclear Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase phosphatase (CaMKP-N/PPM1E) by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase I (CaMKI)

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2012 Jun 15;422(4):703-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.05.062. Epub 2012 May 22.

Abstract

Nuclear Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase phosphatase (CaMKP-N/PPM1E) is an enzyme that dephosphorylates and downregulates multifunctional Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases (CaMKs) as well as AMP-dependent protein kinase. In our previous study, we found that zebrafish CaMKP-N (zCaMKP-N) underwent proteolytic processing and translocated to cytosol in a proteasome inhibitor-sensitive manner. In the present study, we found that zCaMKP-N is regulated by phosphorylation at Ser-480. When zCaMKP-N was incubated with the activated CaMKI, time-dependent phosphorylation of the enzyme was observed. This phosphorylation was significantly reduced when Ser-480 was replaced by Ala, suggesting that CaMKI phosphorylates Ser-480 of zCaMKP-N. Phosphorylation-mimic mutants, S480D and S480E, showed higher phosphatase activities than those of wild type and S480A mutant in solution-based phosphatase assay using various substrates. Furthermore, autophosphorylation of CaMKII after ionomycin treatment was more severely attenuated in Neuro2a cells when CaMKII was cotransfected with the phosphorylation-mimic mutant of zCaMKP-N than with the wild-type or non-phosphorylatable zCaMKP-N. These results strongly suggest that phosphorylation of zCaMKP-N at Ser-480 by CaMKI activates CaMKP-N catalytic activity and thereby downregulates multifunctional CaMKs in the cytosol.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Alanine / genetics
  • Alanine / metabolism
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Amino Acid Substitution
  • Animals
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 1 / metabolism*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Enzyme Activation
  • Mice
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutation
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / genetics
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / metabolism*
  • Phosphorylation
  • Protein Phosphatase 2C
  • Rats
  • Recombinant Proteins / genetics
  • Recombinant Proteins / metabolism
  • Serine / genetics
  • Serine / metabolism

Substances

  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Serine
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 1
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases
  • Ppm1e protein, rat
  • Protein Phosphatase 2C
  • Alanine