Article
Structure of a trapped intermediate of calmodulin: calcium regulation of EF-hand proteins from a new perspective.
Journal of molecular biology - 11 Mar 2005
Grabarek Zenon
Abstract excerpt
Calmodulin (CaM) is a multifunctional Ca2+-binding protein that regulates the activity of many enzymes in response to changes in the intracellular Ca2+ concentration. There are two globular domains in CaM, each containing a pair of helix-loop-helix Ca2+-binding motifs called EF-hands. Ca2+-binding induces the opening of both domains thereby exposing hydrophobic pockets that provide binding sites for the target...
Topics
- Binding Sites
- Calcium
- Calmodulin
- Disulfides
- Humans
- Ligands
- Membrane Microdomains
- Models, Molecular
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mutation
- Protein Binding
- Protein Conformation
- Troponin C
