title: Cloning of a sea urchin sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase.
abstract: Sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase (SERCA), a vesicular integral membrane protein, is the best-characterized member of the P-type ion translocating ATPase superfamily. Here we describe the cloning and structural analysis of a sea urchin SERCA (suSERCA) cloned from testis cDNA. The approximately 112 kDa suSERCA is 1022 amino acids with approximately 70% identity and 80% similarity to all known mammalian SERCA isoforms. suSERCA shares all the structural features of mammalian SERCAs, including domains: A, actuator; N, nucleotide-binding; and P, phosphorylation, and also 10 transmembrane helices. Like human SERCA2, the suSERCA has a possible 11th transmembrane segment in its extreme C-terminus. The alignment of three sequences (suSERCA, human SERCA2, and rabbit SERCA1a) shows that the Ca2+ binding residues and kinks (required to form the ion-binding pocket) are 100% conserved. The annotated suSERCA gene consists of 24 exons separated by 23 introns and is approximately 30 kb. Western blots show that suSERCA is present in sea urchin eggs and testis, but not in mature spermatozoa. Treatment of live sperm with SERCA inhibitors has no effect on intracellular calcium, suggesting the absence of SERCA in sea urchin spermatozoa.
authors.affiliation: Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0202, USA. hgunarat@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Herath Jayantha
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Gunaratne
authors.forename: Victor D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Vacquier
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010063:Ovum / Q000378:metabolism; D010802:Phylogeny; D011817:Rabbits; D012519:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism; D053498:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases; D012617:Sea Urchins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000378:metabolism; D013737:Testis / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D053498:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases; C506946:ATP2A2 protein, human; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases