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Spatiotemporal maps of CaMKII in dendritic spines
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Khan, Shahid, Reese, Thomas S., Rajpoot, Nasir M. (Nasir Mahmood) and Shabbir, Ayisha (2012) Spatiotemporal maps of CaMKII in dendritic spines. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Volume 33 (Number 1). pp. 123-139. doi:10.1007/s10827-011-0377-1 ISSN 0929-5313.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10827-011-0377-1
Abstract
The calcium calmodulin dependent kinase (CaMKII) is important for long-term potentiation at dendritic spines. Photo-activatable GFP (PaGFP) – CaMKII fusions were used to map CaMKII movements between and within spines in dissociated hippocampal neurons. Photo-activated PaGFP (GFP*) generated in the shaft spread uniformly, but was retained for about 1 s in spines. The differential localization of GFP*-CaMKII isoforms was visualized with hundred nanometer precision frame to frame using de-noising algorithms. GFP*-CaMKIIα localized to the tips of mushroom spines. The spatiotemporal profiles of native and kinase defective GFP*-CaMKIIβ, differed markedly from GFP*-CaMKIIα and mutant GFP*-CaMKIIβ lacking the association domain. CaMKIIβ bound to cortical actin in the dendrite and the stable actin network in spine bodies. Glutamate produced a transiently localized GFP*-CaMKIIα fraction and a soluble GFP*-CaMKIIβ fraction in spine bodies. Single molecule simulations of the interplay between diffusion and biochemistry of GFP* species were guided by the spatiotemporal maps and set limits on binding parameters. They highlighted the role of spine morphology in modulating bound CaMKII lifetimes. The long residence times of GFP*-CaMKIIβ relative to GFP*-CaMKIIα followed as consequence of more binding sites on the actin cytoskeleton than the post-synaptic density. These factors combined to retain CaMKII for tens of seconds, sufficient to outlast the calcium transients triggered by glutamate, without invoking complex biochemistry.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Computational Neuroscience | ||||
Publisher: | Springer New York LLC | ||||
ISSN: | 0929-5313 | ||||
Official Date: | August 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 33 | ||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 123-139 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s10827-011-0377-1 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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