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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 283, Issue 9, 5389-5401, February 29, 2008

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Ischemia-elicited Oxidative Modulation of Ca²⁺/Calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase II^*

From the Developmental Neurobiology Program, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Ca²⁺/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) plays a critical role in neuronal signal transduction and synaptic plasticity. Here, we showed that this kinase was very susceptible to oxidative modulation. Treatment of mouse brain synaptosomes with H₂O₂, diamide, and sodium nitroprusside caused aggregation of CaMKII through formation of disulfide and non-disulfide linkages, and partial inhibition of the kinase activity. These CaMKII aggregates were found to associate with the post synaptic density. However, treatment of purified CaMKII with these oxidants did not replicate those effects observed in the synaptosomes. Using two previously identified potential mediators of oxidants in the brain, glutathione disulfide S-monoxide (GS-DSMO) and glutathione disulfide S-dioxide (GS-DSDO), we showed that they oxidized and inhibited CaMKII in a manner partly related to those of the oxidant-treated synaptosomes as well as the ischemia-elicited oxidative stress in the acutely prepared hippocampal slices. Interestingly, the autophosphorylated and activated CaMKII was relatively refractory to GS-DSMO- and GS-DSDO-mediated aggregation. Short term ischemia (10 min) caused a depression of basal synaptic response of the hippocampal slices, and re-oxygenation (after 10 min) reversed the depression. However, oxidation of CaMKII remained at above the pre-ischemic level throughout the treatment. Oxidation of CaMKII also prevented full recovery of CaMKII autophosphorylation after re-oxygenation. Subsequently, the high frequency stimulation-mediated synaptic potentiation in the hippocampal CA1 region was significantly reduced compared with the control without ischemia. Thus, ischemia-evoked oxidation of CaMKII, probably via the action of glutathione disulfide S-oxides or their analogues, may be involved in the suppression of synaptic plasticity.

Received for publication, October 11, 2007 , and in revised form, January 2, 2008.

^* This work was supported by the Intramural Research Program of NICHD, National Institutes of Health (NIH). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

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