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Calmodulin binds to caldesmon in an antiparallel manner.
Biochemistry - 2 Dec 1997
Wang E, Zhuang S, Kordowska J, Grabarek Z, Wang C L
Abstract excerpt
Two of the five tryptophan residues (W659 and W692) in chicken gizzard smooth muscle caldesmon (CaD) are located within the calmodulin (CaM) binding sites in the C-terminal region of the molecule. When these Trp residues are replaced with Gly in either recombinant fragments or synthetic peptides of CaD, the affinity for CaM is decreased by at least 10-fold, suggesting that both of these residues are important for...
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