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  • Title: Caldesmon: a calmodulin-binding actin-regulatory protein.
    Author: Pritchard K, Moody CJ.
    Journal: Cell Calcium; 1986 Dec; 7(5-6):309-27. PubMed ID: 3545485.
    Abstract:
    The protein caldesmon, originally isolated from smooth muscle tissue where it is the most abundant calmodulin-binding protein, has since been shown to have a wide distribution in actin- and myosin- containing cells where it is localized in sub-cellular structures concerned with motility, shape changes and exo- or endo-cytosis. Caldesmon is believed to be an actin- regulatory protein, and binds with high affinity to actin or actin-tropomyosin. Caldesmon inhibits the activation by actin-tropomyosin of myosin MgATPase activity, and the inhibition can be reversed by Ca2+.calmodulin. The binding of caldesmon to smooth muscle proteins has been studied in detail, enabling a model to be constructed which could account for the observed Ca2+ regulation of smooth muscle thin filaments. The abundance of caldesmon, and the Ca2+-regulation of its activity via calmodulin, mean that it is potentially an important intracellular regulator of processes such as smooth muscle contraction, cell motility and secretion.
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