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CAMK4

Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type IV is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CAMK4 gene.^[1]

The product of this gene belongs to the serine/threonine protein kinase family, and to the Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CAMK) subfamily. This enzyme is a multifunctional serine/threonine protein kinase with limited tissue distribution, that has been implicated in transcriptional regulation in lymphocytes, neurons, and male germ cells.^[2]

References

References

↑ Sikela JM, Law ML, Kao FT, Hartz JA, Wei Q, Hahn WE (Mar 1989). “Chromosomal localization of the human gene for brain Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type IV”. Genomics. 4 (1): 21–7. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(89)90309-1. PMID 2536634.
↑ “Entrez Gene: CAMK4 calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV”.

Further reading

Further reading

Bredt DS, Ferris CD, Snyder SH (1992). “Nitric oxide synthase regulatory sites. Phosphorylation by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase, protein kinase C, and calcium/calmodulin protein kinase; identification of flavin and calmodulin binding sites”. J. Biol. Chem. 267 (16): 10976–81. PMID 1375933.
Jensen KF, Ohmstede CA, Fisher RS, Sahyoun N (1991). “Nuclear and axonal localization of Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type Gr in rat cerebellar cortex”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88 (7): 2850–3. doi:10.1073/pnas.88.7.2850. PMC 51337. PMID 2011593.
Selbert MA, Anderson KA, Huang QH, et al. (1995). “Phosphorylation and activation of Ca²⁺-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV by Ca²⁺-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase Ia kinase. Phosphorylation of threonine 196 is essential for activation”. J. Biol. Chem. 270 (29): 17616–21. doi:10.1074/jbc.270.29.17616. PMID 7615569.
Kitani T, Okuno S, Fujisawa H (1994). “cDNA cloning and expression of human calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV”. J. Biochem. 115 (4): 637–40. PMID 8089075.
Mosialos G, Hanissian SH, Jawahar S, et al. (1994). “A Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase, CaM kinase-Gr, expressed after transformation of primary human B lymphocytes by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is induced by the EBV oncogene LMP1″. J. Virol. 68 (3): 1697–705. PMC 236629. PMID 8107230.
Bland MM, Monroe RS, Ohmstede CA (1994). “The cDNA sequence and characterization of the Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase-Gr from human brain and thymus”. Gene. 142 (2): 191–7. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90260-7. PMID 8194751.
Tokumitsu H, Soderling TR (1996). “Requirements for calcium and calmodulin in the calmodulin kinase activation cascade”. J. Biol. Chem. 271 (10): 5617–22. doi:10.1074/jbc.271.10.5617. PMID 8621423.
Chatila T, Anderson KA, Ho N, Means AR (1996). “A unique phosphorylation-dependent mechanism for the activation of Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type IV/GR”. J. Biol. Chem. 271 (35): 21542–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.271.35.21542. PMID 8702940.
Melander Gradin H, Marklund U, Larsson N, et al. (1997). “Regulation of microtubule dynamics by Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent kinase IV/Gr-dependent phosphorylation of oncoprotein 18″. Mol. Cell. Biol. 17 (6): 3459–67. PMC 232199. PMID 9154845.
Matsushita M, Nairn AC (1998). “Characterization of the mechanism of regulation of Ca²⁺/ calmodulin-dependent protein kinase I by calmodulin and by Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase”. J. Biol. Chem. 273 (34): 21473–81. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.34.21473. PMID 9705275.
Anderson KA, Means RL, Huang QH, et al. (1998). “Components of a calmodulin-dependent protein kinase cascade. Molecular cloning, functional characterization and cellular localization of Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase beta”. J. Biol. Chem. 273 (48): 31880–9. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.48.31880. PMID 9822657.
Hayashi Y, Nishio M, Naito Y, et al. (1999). “Regulation of neuronal nitric-oxide synthase by calmodulin kinases”. J. Biol. Chem. 274 (29): 20597–602. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.29.20597. PMID 10400690.
Blaeser F, Ho N, Prywes R, Chatila TA (2000). “Ca²⁺-dependent gene expression mediated by MEF2 transcription factors”. J. Biol. Chem. 275 (1): 197–209. doi:10.1074/jbc.275.1.197. PMID 10617605.
Moreno CS, Park S, Nelson K, et al. (2000). “WD40 repeat proteins striatin and S/G(2) nuclear autoantigen are members of a novel family of calmodulin-binding proteins that associate with protein phosphatase 2A”. J. Biol. Chem. 275 (8): 5257–63. doi:10.1074/jbc.275.8.5257. PMC 3505218. PMID 10681496.
Komeima K, Hayashi Y, Naito Y, Watanabe Y (2000). “Inhibition of neuronal nitric-oxide synthase by calcium/ calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IIalpha through Ser847 phosphorylation in NG108-15 neuronal cells”. J. Biol. Chem. 275 (36): 28139–43. doi:10.1074/jbc.M003198200. PMID 10874031.
Wu JY, Ribar TJ, Cummings DE, et al. (2000). “Spermiogenesis and exchange of basic nuclear proteins are impaired in male germ cells lacking Camk4”. Nat. Genet. 25 (4): 448–52. doi:10.1038/78153. PMID 10932193.
Jang MK, Goo YH, Sohn YC, et al. (2001). “Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV stimulates nuclear factor-kappa B transactivation via phosphorylation of the p65 subunit”. J. Biol. Chem. 276 (23): 20005–10. doi:10.1074/jbc.M010211200. PMID 11274168.
Hsu LS, Chen GD, Lee LS, et al. (2001). “Human Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase beta gene encodes multiple isoforms that display distinct kinase activity”. J. Biol. Chem. 276 (33): 31113–23. doi:10.1074/jbc.M011720200. PMID 11395482.
Zhao X, Ito A, Kane CD, et al. (2001). “The modular nature of histone deacetylase HDAC4 confers phosphorylation-dependent intracellular trafficking”. J. Biol. Chem. 276 (37): 35042–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.M105086200. PMID 11470791.
Ainhoa Bilbaoa; Jan Rodriguez Parkitnab; David Engblomb; Stéphanie Perreau-Lenza; Carles Sanchis-Seguraa; Miriam Schneidera; Witold Konopkab; Magdalena Westphalb; Gerome Breenc; Sylvane Desrivieresc; Matthias Klugmannd; Camila Guindalinie; Homero Valladag; Ronaldo Laranjeirae; Fernando Rodriguez de Fonsecah; Gunter Schumannc; Günther Schützb & Rainer Spanagela (2008). “Loss of the Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type IV in dopaminoceptive neurons enhances behavioral effects of cocaine”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PNAS. 105 (45): 17549–54. doi:10.1073/pnas.0803959105. PMC 2582267. PMID 19001277.
Feliciano DM & Edelman AM (2009). “Repression of Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV signaling accelerates retinoic acid-induced differentiation of human neuroblastoma cells”. J. Biol. Chem. 284 (39): 26466–81. doi:10.1074/jbc.M109.027680. PMC 2785335. PMID 19633294.

External links

External links

Human CAMK4 genome location and CAMK4 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.

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