title: Calcium ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum has four binding sites for calcium.
abstract: The calcium-transporting ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum is known to bind two Ca2+ ions from the cytoplasm to the free enzyme and two Ca2+ ions from the lumen to the phosphoenzyme. The concentration of phosphoenzyme formed at equilibrium from Pi and Mg2+ increases with increasing concentration of calcium in the lumen, which binds to the phosphoenzyme to form Ca2.E approximately P.Mg. However, at subsaturating concentrations of Mg2+ increasing the concentration of lumenal Ca2+ does not drive phosphoenzyme formation to completion. The maximal levels of phosphoenzyme that are formed at saturating concentrations of lumenal Ca2+ increase with increasing concentrations of Mg2+. This result requires that Ca2+ can bind to low-affinity lumenal sites on both the free enzyme and the phosphoenzyme, as well as to the high-affinity cytoplasmic calcium-binding sites. If there were no lumenal binding sites for Ca2+ on the free enzyme, high concentrations of lumenal Ca2+ would convert all of the enzyme to the same maximal concentration of Ca2.E approximately P.Mg at subsaturating concentrations of Mg2+ and Pi. We conclude that there are two low-affinity lumenal sites as well as two high-affinity cytoplasmic sites for Ca2+ on the free enzyme. Phosphorylation by ATP results in translocation of Ca2+ from the high-affinity to the low-affinity sites.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254-9110.
authors.forename: W P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Jencks
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peisach
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Myung
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases / Q000378:metabolism*; D008274:Magnesium / Q000378:metabolism; D011817:Rabbits; D012519:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases; D008274:Magnesium; D002118:Calcium