TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterization of the Human Calmodulin-Like Protein Expressed in Escherichia Coli
AU - Rhyner, Johannes A.
AU - Roller, Markus
AU - Durussel-Gerber, Isabelle
AU - Cox, Jos A.
AU - Strehler, Emanuel E.
PY - 1992/2/1
Y1 - 1992/2/1
N2 - The protein-coding region of an intronless human calmodulin-like gene [Koller, M., Strehler, E.E. (1988) FEBS Lett. 239, 121-128] has been inserted into a pKK233-2 expression vector, and the 148-residue, Mx = 16 800 human protein was purified to apparent homogeneity by phenyl-Sepharose affinity chromatography from cultures of Escherichia coli JM105 transformed with the recombinant vector. Several milligrams of the purified protein were obtained from 1 L of bacterial culture. A number of properties of human CLP were compared to those of bacterially expressed human calmodulin (CaM) and of bovine brain CaM. CLP showed a characteristic Ca2+-dependent electrophoretic mobility shift on SDS-polyacrylamide gels, although the magnitude of this shift was smaller than that observed with CaM. CLP was able to activate the 3',5'-cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase to the same Kma, as normal CaM, albeit with a 7-fold higher Kact. In contrast, the erythrocyte plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase could only be stimulated to 62% of its maximal CaM-dependent activity by CLP. CLP was found to contain four Ca2+-binding sites with a mean affinity constant of 105 M_1, a value about 10-fold lower than that for CaM under comparable conditions. The highly tissue-specifically-expressed CLP represents a novel human Ca2+-binding protein showing characteristics of a CaM isoform.
AB - The protein-coding region of an intronless human calmodulin-like gene [Koller, M., Strehler, E.E. (1988) FEBS Lett. 239, 121-128] has been inserted into a pKK233-2 expression vector, and the 148-residue, Mx = 16 800 human protein was purified to apparent homogeneity by phenyl-Sepharose affinity chromatography from cultures of Escherichia coli JM105 transformed with the recombinant vector. Several milligrams of the purified protein were obtained from 1 L of bacterial culture. A number of properties of human CLP were compared to those of bacterially expressed human calmodulin (CaM) and of bovine brain CaM. CLP showed a characteristic Ca2+-dependent electrophoretic mobility shift on SDS-polyacrylamide gels, although the magnitude of this shift was smaller than that observed with CaM. CLP was able to activate the 3',5'-cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase to the same Kma, as normal CaM, albeit with a 7-fold higher Kact. In contrast, the erythrocyte plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase could only be stimulated to 62% of its maximal CaM-dependent activity by CLP. CLP was found to contain four Ca2+-binding sites with a mean affinity constant of 105 M_1, a value about 10-fold lower than that for CaM under comparable conditions. The highly tissue-specifically-expressed CLP represents a novel human Ca2+-binding protein showing characteristics of a CaM isoform.
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U2 - 10.1021/bi00166a017
DO - 10.1021/bi00166a017
M3 - Article
C2 - 1334432
AN - SCOPUS:0027085882
SN - 0006-2960
VL - 31
SP - 12826
EP - 12832
JO - Biochemistry
JF - Biochemistry
IS - 51
ER -