Molecular mechanism of activation-triggered subunit exchange in Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II.
Bhattacharyya, M., Stratton, M.M., Going, C.C., McSpadden, E.D., Huang, Y., Susa, A.C., Elleman, A., Cao, Y.M., Pappireddi, N., Burkhardt, P., Gee, C.L., Barros, T., Schulman, H., Williams, E.R., Kuriyan, J.(2016) Elife 5
- PubMed: 26949248 
- DOI: 10.7554/eLife.13405
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
5IG0, 5IG1, 5IG3, 5IG4, 5IG5 - PubMed Abstract: 
Activation triggers the exchange of subunits in Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII), an oligomeric enzyme that is critical for learning, memory, and cardiac function. The mechanism by which subunit exchange occurs remains elusive. We show that the human CaMKII holoenzyme exists in dodecameric and tetradecameric forms, and that the calmodulin (CaM)-binding element of CaMKII can bind to the hub of the holoenzyme and destabilize it to release dimers ...