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Properties of contextual memory formed in the absence of αCaMKII autophosphorylation.
Molecular brain - 28 Jan 2011
Irvine Elaine E, Danhiez Arthur, Radwanska Kasia, Nassim Charlotte, Lucchesi Walter, Godaux Emile, Ris Laurence, Giese K Peter
Abstract excerpt
The alpha-isoform of calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II (αCaMKII) is a major synaptic kinase that undergoes autophosphorylation after NMDA receptor activation, switching the kinase into a calcium-independent activity state. This αCaMKII autophosphorylation is essential for NMDA receptor-dependent long-term potentiation (LTP), induced by a single tetanus, in hippocampal area CA1 and in neocortex. Furthermore,...
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