PUBLICATION

High-performance CaMKI: A highly active and stable form of CaMKIδ produced by high-level soluble expression in Escherichia coli

Authors
Senga, Y., Akizuki, K., Katayama, S., Shigeri, Y., Kameshita, I., Ishida, A., Sueyoshi, N.
ID
ZDB-PUB-160522-4
Date
2016
Source
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications   475(3): 277-82 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Keywords
Autonomous, Catalytic fragment, One-step purification, Overexpression, Thermal stability, Truncation
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 1/chemistry
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 1/genetics
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 1/metabolism*
  • Catalytic Domain
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases/metabolism
  • Enzyme Stability
  • Escherichia coli/genetics
  • Phosphorylation
  • Substrate Specificity
  • Zebrafish/genetics
  • Zebrafish/metabolism*
  • Zebrafish Proteins/chemistry
  • Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
  • Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
PubMed
27207832 Full text @ Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.
Abstract
We describe here the expression and characterization of a constitutively active fragment of zebrafish Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMK) Iδ designated zCaMKIδ(1-299) that lacks an autoinhibitory domain. We used a simple one-step purification method to isolate the recombinant enzyme at high yield (220 mg/l of the culture medium) from the soluble fraction of lysates prepared from Escherichia coli. Unlike the corresponding fragment of CaMKIα (CaMKΙα(1-294)), the kinase activity of zCaMKIδ(1-299), without activation procedures, was comparable to that of wild-type zCaMKIδ activated by CaMK kinase. zCaMKIδ(1-299) exhibited broad substrate specificity highly similar to that of wild-type zCaMKIδ, and complementary to that of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (PKAc). The protein kinase activity of zCaMKIδ(1-299) was higher compared with that of PKAc as well as CX-30K-CaMKII that comprises a constitutively active fragment of CaMKII fused to the N-terminal region of Xenopus CaMKI. Furthermore, kinase activity was highly stable against thermal inactivation and repeated freezing-thawing. Thus, zCaMKIδ(1-299) represents a readily available alternative that can be used as a "High-performance phosphorylating reagent" alone or in combination with PKAc in diverse experiments on protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation.
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Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
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