title: Identification of the Ca(2+)-binding domains in reticulocalbin, an endoplasmic reticulum resident Ca(2+)-binding protein with multiple EF-hand motifs.
abstract: Reticulocalbin (RCN) is a member of the EF-hand Ca(2+)-binding protein family and is a luminal protein of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) with a molecular weight of 44,000 [Ozawa, M. and Muramatsu, T. (1993) J. Biol. Chem. 268, 699-705]. Although RCN has six repeats of a domain containing an EF-hand motif, the varying degrees of divergence of the amino acid sequences of these domains from the EF-hand consensus sequences suggested that some domains might have lost their Ca(2+)-binding capability and adopted new functions. To identify the domains involved in Ca(2+)-binding, discrete domains of RCN were expressed in Escherichia coli, using the glutathione S-transferase fusion protein system. 45Ca2+ blot analysis of the resultant fusion proteins revealed that the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth domains bind Ca2+, however, the second and third ones do not. The fusion proteins containing all six domains, and the first and second domains, respectively, showed Ca(2+)-dependent increases in their electrophoretic mobilities, suggesting that Ca2+ induces a conformational change in reticulocalbin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tachikui
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Navet
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozawa
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism*; D005822:Genetic Vectors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011489:Protein Denaturation; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; C078865:reticulocalbin; D005982:Glutathione Transferase; D002118:Calcium