The CREC family, a novel family of multiple EF-hand, low-affinity Ca(2+)-binding proteins localised to the secretory pathway of mammalian cells.
The CREC family consists of a number of recently discovered multiple (up to seven) EF-hand proteins that localise to the secretory pathway of mammalian cells. At present, the family includes reticulocalbin, ERC-55/TCBP-49/E6BP, Cab45, calumenin and crocalbin/CBP-50. Similar proteins are found in quite diverse invertebrate organisms such as DCB-45 and SCF in Drosophila melanogaster, SCF in Bombyx mori, CCB-39 in Caenorhabditis elegans and Pfs40/PfERC in Plasmodium falciparum. The Ca(2+) affinity is rather low with dissociation constants around 10(-4)-10(-3) M. The proteins may participate in Ca(2+)-regulated activities. Recent evidence has been obtained that some CREC family members are involved in pathological activities such as malignant cell transformation, mediation of the toxic effects of snake venom toxins and putative participation in amyloid formation.
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Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Aarhus, Ole Worms Allé, Building 170, DK-8000, Aarhus, Denmark. bh@biokemi.au.dk
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000682:Amyloid / Q000096:biosynthesis; D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D007448:Invertebrates; D007700:Kinetics; D008322:Mammals; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015398:Signal Transduction; D012910:Snake Venoms / Q000633:toxicity
D000682:Amyloid; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D012910:Snake Venoms; D002118:Calcium