PMID- 21742790 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110906 LR - 20220310 IS - 1522-1210 (Electronic) IS - 0031-9333 (Print) IS - 0031-9333 (Linking) VI - 91 IP - 3 DP - 2011 Jul TI - CaMKII in the cardiovascular system: sensing redox states. PG - 889-915 LID - 10.1152/physrev.00018.2010 [doi] AB - The multifunctional Ca(2+)- and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is now recognized to play a central role in pathological events in the cardiovascular system. CaMKII has diverse downstream targets that promote vascular disease, heart failure, and arrhythmias, so improved understanding of CaMKII signaling has the potential to lead to new therapies for cardiovascular disease. CaMKII is a multimeric serine-threonine kinase that is initially activated by binding calcified calmodulin (Ca(2+)/CaM). Under conditions of sustained exposure to elevated Ca(2+)/CaM, CaMKII transitions into a Ca(2+)/CaM-autonomous enzyme by two distinct but parallel processes. Autophosphorylation of threonine-287 in the CaMKII regulatory domain "traps" CaMKII into an open configuration even after Ca(2+)/CaM unbinding. More recently, our group identified a pair of methionines (281/282) in the CaMKII regulatory domain that undergo a partially reversible oxidation which, like autophosphorylation, prevents CaMKII from inactivating after Ca(2+)/CaM unbinding. Here we review roles of CaMKII in cardiovascular disease with an eye to understanding how CaMKII may act as a transduction signal to connect pro-oxidant conditions into specific downstream pathological effects that are relevant to rare and common forms of cardiovascular disease. FAU - Erickson, Jeffrey R AU - Erickson JR AD - Department of Pharmacology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA. drjerickson@ucdavis.edu FAU - He, B Julie AU - He BJ FAU - Grumbach, Isabella M AU - Grumbach IM FAU - Anderson, Mark E AU - Anderson ME LA - eng GR - T32 HL086350/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01-HL-079031/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL070250/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - T32-HL-86350/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 GM007337/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01-HL-62494/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01-HL-70250/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL062494/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 GM067795/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL079031/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. PT - Review PL - United States TA - Physiol Rev JT - Physiological reviews JID - 0231714 RN - 0 (Reactive Oxygen Species) RN - EC 2.7.11.17 (Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2) SB - IM MH - Blood Vessels/metabolism MH - Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2/*metabolism MH - Cardiovascular Diseases/etiology MH - Cardiovascular System/*enzymology MH - Enzyme Activation/physiology MH - Heart Failure/physiopathology MH - Humans MH - Myocardial Contraction/physiology MH - Myocardium/enzymology MH - Oxidation-Reduction MH - Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism MH - Signal Transduction/physiology MH - Tissue Distribution PMC - PMC3732780 MID - NIHMS498620 EDAT- 2011/07/12 06:00 MHDA- 2011/09/07 06:00 PMCR- 2013/08/04 CRDT- 2011/07/12 06:00 PHST- 2011/07/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/07/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/09/07 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2013/08/04 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 91/3/889 [pii] AID - 10.1152/physrev.00018.2010 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Physiol Rev. 2011 Jul;91(3):889-915. doi: 10.1152/physrev.00018.2010.