In situ hybridization histochemistry and immunocytochemistry, including double immunofluorescence, were used to study the populations of neurons expressing the alpha subunit of type II calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CAM II kinase-alpha) or glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) in the somatic sensory and motor areas of the macaque monkey cerebral cortex. Sections were subjected to in s...

The effects of 8-bromo-cGMP on intracellular calcium concentrations in cultured rat aortic smooth muscle cells were studied. Both angiotensin II and depolarizing concentrations of K+ stimulated Ca2+ accumulation in the cytoplasm. The increase in Ca2+ due to angiotensin II was associated with an increase in inositol phosphates, while that due to K+ was not. Preincubation of cells with 8-bromo-cG...

Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II) is present in a membrane-bound form that phosphorylates synapsin I on neuronal synaptic vesicles and the ryanodine receptor at skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), but it is unclear how this soluble enzyme is targeted to membranes. We demonstrate that alphaKAP, a non-kinase protein encoded by a gene within the gene of alpha-CaM...

The transduction of many cellular stimuli results in oscillations in the intracellular concentration of calcium ions (Ca2+). Although information is thought to be encoded in the frequency of such oscillations, no frequency decoder has been identified. Rapid superfusion of immobilized Ca2+- and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II) in vitro showed that the enzyme can decode the ...

We report potent inhibition of the Mg(II).ATP-dependent protein phosphatase, Fc.M, by the regulatory subunit dimer of type II cAMP-dependent protein kinase, RII2. The protein kinase catalytic subunit has no effect on phosphatase activity and is unable to substitute for kinase FA in the kinase FA- and Mg(II).ATP-mediated phosphatase activation reaction. Phosphatase inhibition was investigated as...

A neuroblastoma protein related to the brain microtubule-associated protein, MAP-1B, as determined by immunoprecipitation and coassembly with brain microtubules, becomes phosphorylated when N2A mouse neuroblastoma cells are induced to generate microtubule-containing neurites. To characterize the protein kinases that may be involved in this in vivo phosphorylation of MAP-1B, we have studied its ...

Much has been learned about the activity-dependent synaptic modifications that are thought to underlie memory storage, but the mechanism by which these modifications are stored remains unclear. A good candidate for the storage mechanism is Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II). CaM kinase II is one of the most prominent protein kinases, present in essentially every tissue ...