Article
Dynamic features of allosteric Ca2+ sensor in tissue-specific NCX variants.
Cell calcium - 1 Jun 2012
Giladi Moshe, Bohbot Hilla, Buki Tal, Schulze Dan H, Hiller Reuben, Khananshvili Daniel
Abstract excerpt
The Na(+)-Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX) mediated Ca(2+) fluxes are essential for handling Ca(2+) homeostasis in many cell-types. Eukaryotic NCX variants contain regulatory CBD1 and CBD2 domains, whereas in distinct variants the Ca(2+) binding to Ca3-Ca4 sites of CBD1 results either in sustained activation, inhibition or no effect. CBD2 contains an alternatively spliced segment, which is expressed in a tissue-specific...
Topics
- Allosteric Regulation
- Alternative Splicing
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Binding Sites
- Brain Chemistry
- Calcium
- Calcium Signaling
- Cloning, Molecular
- Dogs
- Drosophila Proteins
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Escherichia coli
- Exons
- Kidney
