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. 1992 Aug 15;286(Pt 1):211–216. doi: 10.1042/bj2860211

Insulin-stimulated phosphorylation of calmodulin.

D B Sacks 1, H W Davis 1, D L Crimmins 1, J M McDonald 1
PMCID: PMC1133041  PMID: 1520270

Abstract

Calmodulin is phosphorylated in vitro by the insulin-receptor tyrosine kinase and a variety of serine/threonine kinases. Here we report that insulin stimulates the phosphorylation of calmodulin on average 3-fold in intact rat hepatocytes. Although calmodulin is constitutively phosphorylated, insulin increases phosphate incorporation into serine, threonine and tyrosine residues. We demonstrate that casein kinase II, an insulin-sensitive kinase, phosphorylates calmodulin in vitro on serine/thyronine residues (Thr-79, Ser-81, Ser-101 and Thr-117). The ability of the insulin receptor to phosphorylate calmodulin that has been pre-phosphorylated by casein kinase II is enhanced up to 35-fold, and the sites of phosphorylation on calmodulin are shifted from tyrosine to threonine and serine. These observations, obtained with a new specific monoclonal antibody to calmodulin, confirm that insulin stimulates calmodulin phosphorylation in intact cells. The observation that calmodulin is phosphorylated in vivo, coupled with the recent demonstration that phosphocalmodulin exhibits altered biological activity, strongly suggests that phosphorylation of calmodulin is a critical component of intracellular signalling.

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