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Publications [#112915] of G Vann V. Bennett

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  1. E Ling, K Gardner, V Bennett, Protein kinase C phosphorylates a recently identified membrane skeleton-associated calmodulin-binding protein in human erythrocytes., The Journal of biological chemistry, UNITED STATES, vol. 261 no. 30 (October, 1986), pp. 13875-8, ISSN 0021-9258
    (last updated on 2003/02/18)

    Abstract:
    A membrane skeleton-associated protein with calmodulin-binding activity recently has been purified and characterized from human erythrocytes (Gardner, K. and Bennett, V. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 1339-1348). This new protein (CaM-BP103/97) has now been identified as a major substrate for protein kinase C in erythrocytes since phosphorylation of both of its subunits (Mr = 103,000 and 97,000) is elevated 3-15-fold in the presence of the phorbol ester, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol beta-acetate (TPA), under the following conditions: ghost membranes incubated with protein kinase C purified from rat brain, ghost membranes from erythrocytes pretreated with TPA, and intact erythrocytes metabolically labeled with 32PO4 and stimulated by TPA. The sites of phosphorylation of this protein by exogenous and endogenous protein kinase C are identical since two-dimensional 32P-peptide maps of both subunits labeled by either endogenous or exogenous enzyme are indistinguishable. Each subunit of CaM-BP103/97 accepts up to 3 mol of phosphate/polypeptide chain. In the presence of low calcium concentrations and in the absence of cytosol, the phosphorylation of CaM-BP103/97 is, on a molar basis, equal to or greater than that of proteins 4.1 and 4.9. As a target for both calmodulin and protein kinase C, CaM-BP103/97 is likely to play a key role in the effect of calcium on erythrocyte membrane shape and stability.

    Keywords:
    Adenosine Triphosphate • Brain • Calcium • Calmodulin-Binding Proteins • Cytoskeleton • Erythrocytes • Humans • Membrane Proteins • Molecular Weight • Phospholipids • Phosphorylation • Protein Kinase C • Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate • blood • enzymology • metabolism • metabolism* • pharmacology • ultrastructure*


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