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Cho JH, Homma K, Kanegasaki S, Natori S. Activation of human neutrophils by a synthetic anti-microbial peptide, KLKLLLLLKLK-NH2, via cell surface calreticulin. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1999; 266:878-85. [PMID: 10583381 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00920.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We previously reported that a synthetic anti-bacterial peptide, KLKLLLLLKLK-NH2 (L5), showed significant chemotherapeutic activity in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-infected mice, and its ability to activate human neutrophils was related to its chemotherapeutic activity. In this study, we found that activation of neutrophils by L5 was inhibited by pertussis toxin, suggesting that GTP-binding protein (G-protein) participates in this process. We isolated an L5-binding protein, which turned out to be human calreticulin, with a molecular mass of 60 kDa from neutrophil membranes. From experiments using an anti-calreticulin antibody, we proposed that calreticulin is partly localized on the surface of neutrophils, and L5-bound calreticulin transmits a signal into cells via G-protein to activate neutrophils to generate superoxide anion.
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- J H Cho
- Nabori Special Laboratory, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama, Japan
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Szewczenko-Pawlikowski M, Dziak E, McLaren MJ, Michalak M, Opas M. Heat shock-regulated expression of calreticulin in retinal pigment epithelium. Mol Cell Biochem 1997; 177:145-52. [PMID: 9450656 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006874019070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Calreticulin is a major Ca2+ binding protein in the endoplasmic reticulum of non-muscle cells. In this report we show that calreticulin protein is strongly induced by heat shock. Activation and attenuation of the heat shock transcriptional response is caused by heat shock factor that binds to 5'-flanking sequences of heat shock responsive genes, the heat shock element. The smallest stretch of DNA that shows detectable binding of heat shock factor in vitro contains a two-sequence unit nGAAnnTTCn which exists in the 5'-flanking region of calreticulin DNA (5'-gGAAccCAGcgTTC-3'). The present data provide direct evidence that calreticulin expression can be modulated by heat shock. Thus, our results strengthen the hypothesis that calreticulin, in addition to its function as a cellular Ca2+ store, is a multifunctional protein which performs at least some of its functions from the lumen of the ER.
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Zhu Q, Zelinka P, White T, Tanzer ML. Calreticulin-integrin bidirectional signaling complex. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 232:354-8. [PMID: 9125180 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.6195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Calreticulin has multiple functions, diverse cellular locations, and putative isoforms. It likely maintains integrin avidity by binding alpha integrin cytoplasmic tails and is a surface lectin which triggers cell spreading. In the present study, we have immunocaptured a cell surface complex from B16 mouse melanoma cells which contains alpha 6 beta 1 integrin, two molecular forms of calreticulin, and KDEL docking protein (KDEL-R). One of the calreticulins, "endocalreticulin", a 52 kDa protein, does not become surface biotinylated, and is probably bound to alpha integrin cytoplasmic tails; it disappears when B16 cells adhere to laminin, and two ubiquitinated calreticulins appear. One ubiquitinated species, a 125 kDa protein, is restricted to focal contacts whereas a second species, a 75 kDa protein, is in focal contacts and surrounding plasma membrane; it also arises when cells bind non-specific surfaces. The other calreticulin, "ectocalreticulin", a 62 kDa protein, becomes surface biotinylated, is probably anchored to surface KDEL-R, and cooperates with alpha 6 beta 1 integrin, triggering cell spreading. The present results suggest a model in which calreticulin-integrin surface complex functions as a symbiotic unit, transmitting information in both directions across the plasma membrane.
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- Q Zhu
- Department of BioStructure and Function, School of Dental Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030-3705, USA
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Lieu TS, Sontheimer RD. A subpopulation of WIL-2 cell calreticulin molecules is associated with RO/SS-A ribonucleoprotein particles. Lupus 1997; 6:40-7. [PMID: 9116718 DOI: 10.1177/096120339700600106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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A subpopulation of human calreticulin (CR) molecules that is reactive with human Ro/SS-A autoimmune sera was identified in a nucleic acid- enriched Wil-2 cell fraction derived by anion exchange column chromatography. Further resolution of this fraction by gel filtration size separation demonstrated that the appearance of CR (true mol. weight 46 kD) coincided with the emergence of Ro/SS-A ribonucleoprotein (mol. weight > 250 kD) antigenic activity and increasing 260 nm ultraviolet absorbance. This high nucleic acid fraction could be further partitioned into four small RNA-containing Ro/SS-A antigenic subfractions by a second passage over the anion exchange column. CR was enriched in one subfraction and present in the other three subfractions as well. No CR was found in the RNA-free fraction of the repartition eluate. These results represent the first direct demonstration that CR, a high-affinity calcium binding protein, exists in a form that is directly associated with all four varieties of native, human Ro/SS-A ribonucleoprotein particles (hY1-5).
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- T S Lieu
- Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 75235-9069, USA
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Morrish DW, Linetsky E, Bhardwaj D, Li H, Dakour J, Marsh RG, Paterson MC, Godbout R. Identification by subtractive hybridization of a spectrum of novel and unexpected genes associated with in vitro differentiation of human cytotrophoblast cells. Placenta 1996; 17:431-41. [PMID: 8899872 DOI: 10.1016/s0143-4004(96)90025-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We have previously demonstrated that epidermal growth factor (EGF), colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-I), and granulocyte-monocyte colony stimulating factor (GMCSF) stimulate, while transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) inhibits, cytotrophoblast differentiation. To identify genes mediating EGF induced differentiation, we constructed a subtracted cDNA library between undifferentiated cytotrophoblast and differentiating cytotrophoblast. We identified six novel genes and four known syncytial products alpha-human chorionic gonadotrophin (alpha hCG) pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein, 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, and plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 whose mRNAs increased during differentiation. Ten other genes were identified whose mRNAs increased during differentiation. Five of these (keratin 19, calcreticulin, heat shock protein 27, serum and glucocorticoid-regulated kinase and adrenomedullin) were not previously reported to be expressed in placenta. Five other genes known to be expressed in placenta were identified. keratin 8, fibronectin, mitochondrial ATP synthase, 1119, and cytosolic copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD-1). Several of these genes may have regulatory functions in trophoblast differentiation.
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- D W Morrish
- Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Hubbard MJ. Abundant calcium homeostasis machinery in rat dental enamel cells. Up-regulation of calcium store proteins during enamel mineralization implicates the endoplasmic reticulum in calcium transcytosis. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1996; 239:611-23. [PMID: 8774704 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0611u.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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UNLABELLED Enamel cells handle large amounts of calcium, particularly during the developmental phase (termed maturation) when dental enamel is hypermineralized. The extent of intracellular calcium burden, and the nature of calcium homeostasis machinery used to accommodate it, are largely unknown. Here, the calcium-binding capacity of enamel cell cytosol was found to increase during development, in parallel with the putative transcellular flux of calcium. At maturation, the abundance of calcium-binding proteins in enamel cells exceeded that in brain and other established calcium-oriented tissues, which implies a large calcium burden. A search for likely cytosolic calcium transporters revealed only one high-affinity calcium-binding protein (12 kDa, distinguished from alpha-parvalbumin) that was up-regulated during maturation, but its low abundance (0.02% of soluble protein) precluded a major calcium transport or cytoprotective role. Two low-affinity calcium-binding proteins up-regulated during maturation (by 1.8-fold and 2.1-fold respectively) were identified as calreticulin and endoplasmin, both residents of the endoplasmic reticulum. Together, calreticulin and endoplasmin constituted an exceptionally high proportion (5%) of soluble protein during maturation, which gives an inferred calcium capacity 67-fold higher than that of the principal cytosolic calcium-binding protein. 28-kDa calbindin. Evidence that endoplasmin expression varied inversely with serum calcium concentration, and that the inositol trisphosphate receptor also was highly expressed during maturation, supported the novel hypothesis that non-mitochondrial calcium stores play a major role in transcellular calcium transport. IN CONCLUSION (a) enamel cells contain a general high abundance of calcium homeostasis proteins, consistent with a heavy intracellular calcium burden; (b) the expression pattern (phenotype) of calcium-binding proteins varies with enamel cell function; (c) enamel cells appear to contain unusually large non-mitochondrial calcium stores; (d) contrary to the prevailing view that calcium passes mainly through the cytosol of calcium-transporting cells, the findings imply a route through the endoplasmic reticulum. This study gives novel information about how a highly calcium-oriented tissue avoids calcium toxicity, and provides a new focus for investigations into the mechanisms of transcellular calcium transport.
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- M J Hubbard
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Conway EM, Liu L, Nowakowski B, Steiner-Mosonyi M, Ribeiro SP, Michalak M. Heat shock-sensitive expression of calreticulin. In vitro and in vivo up-regulation. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:17011-6. [PMID: 7622522 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.28.17011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Calreticulin (CRT) is an ubiquitous, highly conserved, Ca(2+)-binding protein of the sarcoplasmic and endoplasmic reticulum. The precise function(s) of CRT is unknown. However, based on sequence analyses and observations that it may bind to steroid receptors and integrins and store Ca2+ within the cell, it has been postulated to play a "housekeeping" role. To determine whether the level of expression of CRT is affected by stress, we examined the heat shock response of CRT from a variety of cultured cells, including vascular endothelial, lung epithelial, and lung fibroblasts. Following exposure of the cells to 42 degrees C, CRT mRNA transiently accumulated 2.5-4.2-fold at 1-6 h. Nuclear run-on studies and mRNA stability experiments confirmed that the predominant mechanism of augmentation was transcriptional. Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase assays further indicated that the promoter region, containing a putative heat shock element between -172 and -158 of the human CRT gene, is heat shock-sensitive. Finally, we demonstrated the in vivo significance of these findings by exposing rats to hyperthermia. This resulted in accumulation of CRT mRNA and an augmentation of CRT protein in lung tissue. We hypothesize that this stress-induced up-regulation of CRT contributes to the mechanism(s) by which the vascular endothelium and lung tissue, and possibly other organ systems, maintain homeostasis when exposed to a variety of pathophysiological conditions.
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- E M Conway
- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Toronto Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Bleackley RC, Atkinson EA, Burns K, Michalak M. Calreticulin: a granule-protein by default or design? Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1995; 198:145-59. [PMID: 7774279 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-79414-8_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- R C Bleackley
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Decreasing calreticulin expression lowers the Ca2+ response to bradykinin and increases sensitivity to ionomycin in NG-108-15 cells. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)61952-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Dedhar S. Novel functions for calreticulin: interaction with integrins and modulation of gene expression? Trends Biochem Sci 1994; 19:269-71. [PMID: 8048166 DOI: 10.1016/0968-0004(94)90001-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- S Dedhar
- Division of Cancer Research, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In this paper we review some of the rapidly expanding information about calreticulin, a Ca(2+)-binding/storage protein of the endoplasmic reticulum. The emphasis is placed on the structure and function of calreticulin. We believe that calreticulin is a multifunctional Ca(2+)-binding protein and that distinct functional properties of the protein may be localized to each of the three structural domains of calreticulin. Most evidence indicates that calreticulin is a resident endoplasmic reticulum protein. However, it can also be found outside of the endoplasmic reticulum compartment, i.e. in the nuclear envelope, in the nucleus, in the cytotoxic granules in T-lymphocytes and in acrosomal vesicles of sperm cells. The evidence reviewed here clearly suggests that calreticulin has other functions in addition to its role as a Ca2+ storage protein in the endoplasmic reticulum.
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- P D Nash
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Burns K, Atkinson EA, Bleackley RC, Michalak M. Calreticulin: from Ca2+ binding to control of gene expression. Trends Cell Biol 1994; 4:152-4. [PMID: 14731641 DOI: 10.1016/0962-8924(94)90190-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Calreticulin is a highly conserved Ca(2+)-binding/storage protein of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Recently, it has been shown to play a role in the control of gene expression by interacting with the DNA-binding domain of various steroid receptors. How does this ER protein gain access to the nuclear steroid receptors? We propose that calreticulin undergoes unique intracellular trafficking that allows it to colocalize with and bind to steroid receptors.
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- K Burns
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2S2
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