| Project/Area Number |
10470484
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Biological pharmacy
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokushima |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMAUCHI Takashi The University of Tokushima, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor, 薬学部, 教授 (90041813)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2001
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥13,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥3,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000)
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| Keywords | Calmodulin / CaMKII / Ca^<2+> / phosphorylation / protein kinase / gene expression / neurite outgrowth / neural differentiation / タンパク質リン酸 / キナーゼ / リン酸化 / P19細胞 / CaM Kinase II / シナプス可塑性 / Ca^<2+> / カルモデュリン依存性プロテインキナーゼ / 情報伝達 / シナプス後肥原 / トランスロケーション / 可塑性 / 神経突起 |
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| Research Abstract |
Neuronal Ca^<2+> /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II) regulates important neuronal functions, including neurotransmitter synthesis and neurotransmitter release, modulation of ion channel activity, synaptic plasticity, and gene expression. The following results were obtained in this study; 1. when CaM kinase II was introduced in neuronal cells, neurite outgrowth was stimulated, indicating that CaM kinase II played a role stimulation of neurite outgrowth; 2. Ca^<2+> independent activity of the kinase autophosphorylated at Thr-286 involved in neurite outgrowth; 3. more than 28 protein substrates of CaM kinase II were found in the postsynaptic density (PSD), and almost all of these proteins were identified by protein sequencing and mass spectrometry; 4. when the developmental change of the kinase was investigated during the neural differentiation of cultured cells, it was found that CaM kinase II was upregulated during the neuronal differentiation; 5. cell type distinctive changes of splicing pattern of δ isoform were found not only during development of rat brain tissue, but also during differentiation of cultured neuronal cells, indicating that alternatively spliced variants of δ isoform of CaM kinase II were expressed during neural differentiation; 6. when we used the deletion mutants for β-specific insertions to explore the difference between α and β CaM kinase II in enzymatic properties, it was found that β specific insertion of β CaM kinase II played an important role in the cellular distribution of the kinase; 7 The gene encoding the β isoform of rat Ca^<2+>/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II was cloned, and its structure and exon-intron organization were determined; 8. When the promoter activity of the gene was analyzed using nueronal and non-neuronal cells, neuronal cell type-specific promoter activity was found in the 5'-upstream region of the gene.
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