Positional Information Readout in Ca2+ Signaling
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Living cells respond to spatially confined signals. Intracellular signal transmission often involves the release of second messengers like Ca^{2+}. They eventually trigger a physiological response, for example, by activating kinases that in turn activate target proteins through phosphorylation. Here, we investigate theoretically how positional information can be accurately read out by protein phosphorylation in spite of rapid second messenger diffusion. We find that accuracy is increased by binding of kinases to the cell membrane prior to phosphorylation and by increasing the rate of Ca^{2+} loss from the cell interior. These findings could explain some salient features of the conventional protein kinase Cα.
Source: Physical Review Letters
Authors: Vaibhav H. Wasnik, Peter Lipp, Karsten Kruse
Language: Latvian
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W2706308295