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Ca2+ binding in proteins of the calmodulin superfamily: cooperativity, electrostatic contributions and molecular mechanisms.
Ciba Foundation symposium - 1 Jan 1991
Forsén S, Linse S, Drakenberg T, Kördel J, Akke M, Sellers P, Johansson C, Thulin E, Andersson I, Brodin P
Abstract excerpt
In a large number of intracellular regulatory proteins of the calmodulin superfamily a pair of closely interacting helix-loop-helix Ca2+ binding sites ('EF hands') constitute the functional unit--an arrangement that enables cooperative binding. We have recently made detailed experimental studies of the binding of Ca2+ ions to calmodulin, its tryptic fragments TR1C and TR2C (which each constitute a globular domain...
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