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  • Title: Calelectrins are a ubiquitous family of Ca2+-binding proteins purified by Ca2+-dependent hydrophobic affinity chromatography by a mechanism distinct from that of calmodulin.
    Author: Südhof TC.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 1984 Aug 30; 123(1):100-7. PubMed ID: 6236813.
    Abstract:
    The calelectrins, a heterogeneous group of three new Ca2+-binding proteins of M 67 000, 35 000 and 32 500, copurify with calmodulin during Ca2+-dependent hydrophobic affinity chromatography (Südhof et al., Biochemistry, in press, 1984). This property is exploited for the rapid purification of all three calelectrins including for the first time the Mr 35 000, from commercially available acetone powders from several bovine tissues (heart, liver, brain, pancreas and testis). The nature of the Ca2+-dependent interaction of the calelectrins with hydrophobic affinity matrices has been investigated. As with calmodulin, the Ca2+-binding sites of all three purified calelectrins can be probed with Tb3+ which binds to them in a stoichiometric, saturable and Ca2+-displaceable manner. However, using several hydrophobic fluorescence probes which bind to the proteins, contrary to calmodulin no Ca2+-dependent exposure of hydrophobic sites could be detected in any of the three purified proteins. Therefore the Ca2+-dependent purification of the calelectrins on hydrophobic affinity columns seems not to involve the surface exposure of hydrophobic sites and the calelectrins have in this respect little similarity to calmodulin.
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