| Literature DB >> 16054096 |
Angela Woods1, Kristina Dickerson, Richard Heath, Seung-Pyo Hong, Milica Momcilovic, Stephen R Johnstone, Marian Carlson, David Carling.
Abstract
AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is the downstream component of a kinase cascade that plays a pivotal role in energy homeostasis. Activation of AMPK requires phosphorylation of threonine 172 (T172) within the T loop region of the catalytic alpha subunit. Recently, LKB1 was shown to activate AMPK. Here we show that AMPK is also activated by Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase (CaMKK). Overexpression of CaMKKbeta in mammalian cells increases AMPK activity, whereas pharmacological inhibition of CaMKK, or downregulation of CaMKKbeta using RNA interference, almost completely abolishes AMPK activation. CaMKKbeta isolated from rat brain or expressed in E. coli phosphorylates and activates AMPK in vitro. In yeast, CaMKKbeta expression rescues a mutant strain lacking the three kinases upstream of Snf1, the yeast homolog of AMPK. These results demonstrate that AMPK is regulated by at least two upstream kinases and suggest that AMPK may play a role in Ca(2+)-mediated signal transduction pathways.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 16054096 DOI： 10.1016/j.cmet.2005.06.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Metab ISSN： 1550-4131 Impact factor: 27.287