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Unique Structural Changes in Calcium-Bound Calmodulin Upon Interaction with Protein 4.1R FERM Domain: Novel Insights into the Calcium-dependent Regulation of 4.1R FERM Domain Binding to Membrane Proteins by Calmodulin. Cell Biochem Biophys 2013; 69:7-19. [PMID: 24081810 DOI: 10.1007/s12013-013-9758-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Semaan SM, Wang X, Marshall AG, Sang QXA. Identification of Potential Glycoprotein Biomarkers in Estrogen Receptor Positive (ER+) and Negative (ER-) Human Breast Cancer Tissues by LC-LTQ/FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry. J Cancer 2012; 3:269-84. [PMID: 22773931 PMCID: PMC3390597 DOI: 10.7150/jca.4592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2012] [Accepted: 06/20/2012] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Breast cancer is the second most fatal cancer in American women. To increase the life expectancy of patients with breast cancer new diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers and drug targets must be identified. A change in the glycosylation on a glycoprotein often causes a change in the function of that glycoprotein; such a phenomenon is correlated with cancerous transformation. Thus, glycoproteins in human breast cancer estrogen receptor positive (ER+) tissues and those in the more advanced stage of breast cancer, estrogen receptor negative (ER-) tissues, were compared. Glycoproteins showing differences in glycosylation were examined by 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis with double staining (glyco- and total protein staining) and identified by reversed-phase nano-liquid chromatography coupled with a hybrid linear quadrupole ion trap/ Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer. Among the identified glycosylated proteins are alpha 1 acid glycoprotein, alpha-1-antitrypsin, calmodulin, and superoxide dismutase mitochondrial precursor that were further verified by Western blotting for both ER+ and ER- human breast tissues. Results show the presence of a possible glycosylation difference in alpha-1-antitrypsin, a potential tumor-derived biomarker for breast cancer progression, which was expressed highest in the ER- samples.
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- Suzan M Semaan
- 1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Institute of Molecular Biophysics
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Nicolau J, de Souza DN, Carrilho M. Increased glycated calmodulin in the submandibular salivary glands of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Cell Biochem Funct 2009; 27:193-8. [DOI: 10.1002/cbf.1555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Sudic D, Razmara M, Forslund M, Ji Q, Hjemdahl P, Li N. High glucose levels enhance platelet activation: involvement of multiple mechanisms. Br J Haematol 2006; 133:315-22. [PMID: 16643434 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2006.06012.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) and hyperglycaemia are associated with platelet activation. The present study was designed to investigate how high glucose levels influence platelet function. Fasting human blood was incubated with different concentrations of D-glucose (5, 15 and 30 mmol/l) and other sugars without or with in vitro stimuli. Platelet activation was monitored by whole blood flow cytometry. High glucose levels enhanced adenosine diphosphate (ADP)- and thrombin receptor-activating peptide (TRAP)-induced platelet P-selectin expression, and TRAP-induced platelet fibrinogen binding. Similar effects were seen with 30 mmol/l L-glucose, sucrose and galactose. Hyperglycaemia also increased TRAP-induced platelet-leucocyte aggregation. Protein kinase C (PKC) blockade did not counteract the enhancement of platelet P-selectin expression, but abolished the enhancement of TRAP-induced platelet fibrinogen binding by hyperglycaemia. Superoxide anion scavenging by superoxide dismutase (SOD) attenuated the hyperglycaemic enhancement of platelet P-selectin expression, but did not counteract the enhancement of TRAP-induced platelet fibrinogen binding. Hyperglycaemia did not alter platelet intracellular calcium responses to agonist stimulation. Blockade of cyclo-oxygenase (COX), phosphotidylinositol-3 (PI3) kinase, or nitric oxide synthase, or the addition of insulin did not influence the effect of hyperglycaemia. In conclusion, high glucose levels enhanced platelet reactivity to agonist stimulation through elevated osmolality. This occurred via superoxide anion production, which enhanced platelet P-selectin expression (secretion), and PKC signalling, which enhanced TRAP-induced fibrinogen binding (aggregablity).
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- Dzana Sudic
- Department of Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital (Solna), Stockholm, Sweden
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Swamy-Mruthinti S. Glycation decreases calmodulin binding to lens transmembrane protein, MIP. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1536:64-72. [PMID: 11335105 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4439(01)00031-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Channels of the major intrinsic protein (MIP) of the lens transport water, thus playing an important role in lens fiber cell homeostasis. Calmodulin (CAM) interacts with MIP and possibly regulates MIP channel permeability. Protein glycation has been implicated in lens opacification. We previously identified sites of glycation of MIP, which are in close proximity to the putative CAM binding site. This study is aimed to show the effect of in vitro and in vivo glycation on CAM binding to MIP. Our results show that MIP and MP20 are the major CAM binding proteins of the lens membrane. In vitro incubation of lens membranes with 1 M glucose decreased CAM binding by 38% (P<0.001). Similarly, there was a progressive decrease in CAM binding to diabetic lens membranes compared to age-matched controls (up to 30% decrease, P<0.01). Mutation of K228 and K238 as well as a triple K mutation (K228N, K238N, K259N) of MIP resulted in a decrease in CAM binding. Thus, post-translational protein modifications of MIP influence CAM binding. Since CAM is the ubiquitous Ca(2+) receptor, decreases in CAM binding to the target protein will affect the Ca(2+)-mediated cellular processes leading to lens opacification in diabetic and aging lenses.
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- S Swamy-Mruthinti
- Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Ophthalmology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912-2100, USA.
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Gibson SI, Graham IA. Another player joins the complex field of sugar-regulated gene expression in plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:4746-8. [PMID: 10220362 PMCID: PMC33566 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.9.4746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- S I Gibson
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
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González Flecha FL, Castello PR, Gagliardino JJ, Rossi JP. Structural characterization of the glycation process of the plasma membrane calcium pump. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1997; 834:126-8. [PMID: 9405796 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52237.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- F L González Flecha
- Departamento de Química Biológica-IQUIFIB, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Miksík I, Deyl Z. Post-translational non-enzymatic modification of proteins. II. Separation of selected protein species after glycation and other carbonyl-mediated modifications. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS 1997; 699:311-45. [PMID: 9392381 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(97)00233-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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There are two strategies applicable to revealing non-enzymatic post-translational modifications of proteins; while assaying of the hydrolytically stable adducts was the subject of our previous communication [1], here we attempted to review separation technologies for the unfragmented modified proteins. There are a few standard procedures used for this purpose, namely Laemmli gel electrophoresis, different modes of gel permeation chromatography and boronate affinity chromatography. The latter approach makes use of the vicinal hydroxy groups present in glycated proteins. Some (but not all) arising adducts exhibit typical fluorescence which can be exploited for detection. In most cases fluorescence is measured at 370/440 nm for the so-called advanced glycation products or at 335/385 nm for the only so far well characterized glycation marker (pentosidine). Some indication exists that, e.g., synchronous fluorescence detection will probably in the future add to the selectivity and allow the distinction of the different adducts arising during non-enzymatic post-translational modifications (glycation). The proteins reviewed are serum albumin, collagen and lens proteins while glycation of hemoglobin is the subject of another review within the present volume.
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- I Miksík
- Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
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OBJECTIVES This review summarizes the recent findings on some aspects of platelet metabolism that appear to be affected as a consequence of diabetes mellitus. The metabolites include glutathione, L-Arginine/nitric oxide, as well as the ATP-dependent exchange of Na+/K+ and Ca2+. CONCLUSIONS Several aspects of platelet metabolism are altered in diabetics. These metabolic events give rise to a platelet that has less antioxidants, and higher levels of peroxides. The direct consequence of this is the overproduction platelet agonists. In addition, there is evidence for altered Ca2+ and Na+ transport across the plasma membrane. Recent evidence indicates that plasma ATPases in diabetic platelets are not damaged instead their activities are likely to be modulated by oxidized LDL. Finally, platelet inhibitory mechanisms regulated by NO appear to be perturbed in the diabetes disease-state. The combined production of NO and superoxide by NOS isoforms in the platelet could be a major contributory factor to platelet pathogenesis in diabetes mellitus.
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- L Mazzanti
- Institute di Biochimica, Universita degli Studi di Ancona, Italy
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Deziel MR, Safeer RS, Blas SD, Davis FB, Davis PJ. Hexose-specific inhibition in vitro of human red cell Ca(2+)-ATPase activity. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1110:119-22. [PMID: 1390832 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(92)90302-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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In a concentration-dependent manner (5.5-27.5 mmol/l), D-glucose incubated in vitro with human erythrocyte membranes at 37 degrees C for 1 h inhibited membrane Ca(2+)-ATPase activity by up to 75%. The IC50 was 11 mmol/l. L-Glucose was ineffective, as were 3-O-methylglucose, 2-deoxyglucose, sorbitol and myo-inositol. In contrast, D-fructose decreased Ca(2+)-ATPase activity nearly as effectively as D-glucose and mannose and galactose at 11 mmol/l were less than 50% as effective as D-glucose. Tunicamycin (12 pmol/l), but not 10 mmol/l aminoguanidine, progressively antagonized in vitro the D-glucose effect on the enzyme. Erythrocyte membrane Ca(2+)-ATPase activity may be regulated by glycosylation, rather than nonenzymatic glycation.
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- M R Deziel
- Department of Medicine, Albany Medical College, NY 12208
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Changes occurring at the membrane are believed to be the decisive factors in the initiation of diabetic cataract. During diabetic hyperglycemia lens crystallins were shown to undergo glycation. Several studies indicated that glycation brings about protein conformational changes thus implicated in cataractogenesis. Since the membrane proteins are the first targets for glycation, in this study we measured the glycation of alkali washed urea-insoluble membrane proteins from control and diabetic rats by two different methods, phenyl-boronate affinity chromatography and [3H]NaBH4 reduction, and confirmed by amino acid analysis. There was a significant increase in the glycation of membrane proteins in diabetic cataract lenses when compared to controls. It appears that lysine is the major site of glycation. Concomitant to early glycation, there was an increase in non-tryptophan fluorescence (Ex: 350 nm/Em: 440 nm) in the diabetic lens membrane proteins suggesting the presence of advanced glycation mediated protein cross-links. In order to identify whether the major membrane intrinsic protein, MIP26, undergoes glycation, we isolated MIP26 along with its degradatory product MIP22 as one peak on molecular sieve HPLC. HPLC isolated MIP26/MIP22 was further separated on SDS-PAGE followed by slicing and counting. This analysis revealed that MIP26 and MIP22 were more or less equally glycated in controls, however, in diabetic rats glycation of MIP22 was glycated slightly higher than MIP26. Moreover, the proportion of MIP22 increased by about 2-fold in diabetic lenses compared to controls. Thus it appears that major glycation sites are still retained in MIP22 in diabetic rat lenses. In vitro glycation studies with bovine lens membranes were also done using 14C glucose, followed by SDS-PAGE and autoradiography. The major protein glycated in vitro also seems to be MIP26. Interestingly, MIP22 was less glycated than MIP26 in vitro.
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- M S Swamy
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912
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Yacko MA, Butterfield DA. Spin-labeling studies of the conformation of the Ca(2+)-regulatory protein calmodulin in solution and bound to the membrane skeleton in erythrocyte ghosts: implications to transmembrane signaling. Biophys J 1992; 63:317-22. [PMID: 1330029 PMCID: PMC1262154 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(92)81617-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) studies of the Ca(2+)-regulatory protein calmodulin (CaM) have been performed. The conformation of CaM in solution changes upon binding of Ca2+ allowing the protein to bind to target proteins existing in the red blood cell membrane. In this study a maleimide spin label, covalently attached to the single cysteine residue of CaM located in the first Ca(2+)-binding domain, was used to monitor allosteric conformational changes induced by interaction of CaM with Ca2+ and subsequently with the red blood cell membrane. The results show, relative to apo-CaM, a significant increase in the apparent rotational correlation time, tau, of the spin label when Ca2+ was present in solution (P less than 0.001). When apo-CaM exposed to red blood cell membrane ghosts in the absence of Ca2+, no significant difference in spin label motion was seen relative to solution, consistent with the idea that Ca2+ is required for CaM to bind to skeletal proteins. When Ca2+ was added to CaM which was then exposed to ghosts, a highly significant increase in tau (decrease in motion) (P less than 0.000001) relative to apo-CaM exposed to ghosts was found. This latter increase in tau is significantly greater than that produced by the addition of Ca2+ to CaM in solution (P less than 0.001). The major interaction sites of CaM were found by photoaffinity labeling and autoradiography on SDS-PAGE to be on the principal skeletal protein, spectrin. EPR was also used to investigate the biophysical correlates of transmembrane signaling. Spin-labeled CaM was bound to the membrane skeleton in the presence of Ca2+. On the opposite side of the erythrocyte membrane a lectin was bound to the external glycoconjugate of Band 3, the major transmembrane protein of the erythrocyte. A highly significant increase in T of the maleimide spin probe was found relative to the control system in which the lectin was absent. (P < 0.00001). These results suggest that electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of spin-labeled CaM can provide useful information about protein structure and function when in solution and when bound to membranes.
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- M A Yacko
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506-0055
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Kowluru A, Kowluru RA, Yamazaki A. Functional alterations of G-proteins in diabetic rat retina: a possible explanation for the early visual abnormalities in diabetes mellitus. Diabetologia 1992; 35:624-31. [PMID: 1322850 DOI: 10.1007/bf00400253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We examined changes in guanosine triphosphate-dependent signal transduction mechanisms in the retina from the early stages of the streptozotocin-diabetic rat, a model for Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus. Guanosine triphosphate binding, guanosine triphosphatase activity, and binding of (azido) guanosine triphosphate decreased significantly in the retina as early as 2 weeks after the induction of diabetes. The ability of guanosine triphosphate to inhibit forskolin-stimulatable adenyl cyclase was also abolished. These data suggest functional deterioration of G-proteins, especially Gi, in diabetic retina. Further studies using retinal rod outer segments revealed deterioration in light-sensitive, guanosine triphosphate-dependent functions of transducin in diabetic rats. Pertussis toxin-catalysed ADP ribosylation of the alpha subunit of transducin, a heterotrimeric G-protein of rod outer segments, was also reduced in diabetes. No functional effects were seen in purified subunits of transducin subjected to non-enzymatic glycation in vitro. On the other hand, incubation of non-diabetic rod outer segments with (12-0-tetradeconyl) phorbol-13-acetate, a protein kinase C agonist, in the presence of magnesium and adenosine triphosphate resulted in the reduction of guanosine triphosphate-binding and hydrolysis, thus indicating that protein kinase C may be involved in the regulation of these activities. The significance of these observations in the early visual abnormalities associated with diabetes is discussed.
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- A Kowluru
- Division of Life Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
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Trewhella J. The solution structures of calmodulin and its complexes with synthetic peptides based on target enzyme binding domains. Cell Calcium 1992; 13:377-90. [PMID: 1505003 DOI: 10.1016/0143-4160(92)90051-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering experiments have given important information on the solution structures of calmodulin and its complexes with synthetic peptides used to model target enzyme interactions. In combination with crystallographic data, site directed mutagenesis and various spectroscopic studies, these experiments have contributed to our understanding of the solution structure of calmodulin in different functional states. We have gained important insights into the conformational flexibility in calmodulin that appears to be crucial to its regulatory functions. Specifically, flexibility in the interconnecting helix region of calmodulin has been shown to play a critical role in facilitating calmodulin's binding to a wide variety of target enzymes whose activities are thus regulated. This review will focus mainly on the contributions small-angle scattering has made to our understanding of the solution structure of calmodulin in the context of other studies, with particular regard to circular dichroism and Fourier transform infrared studies that complement the small-angle scattering data.
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- J Trewhella
- Life Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
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Kowluru A, Kowluru RA. Preferential excretion of glycated albumin in C57BL-Ks-J mice: effects of diabetes. EXPERIENTIA 1992; 48:486-8. [PMID: 1601114 DOI: 10.1007/bf01928169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Urinary excretion of glycated albumin was quantitated in genetically hyperglycemic mice (C57BL-Ks-J, db/db mice), a model for non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and compared with their non-diabetic littermates. The data indicated a preferential excretion of glycated albumin in non-diabetic mice. This phenomenon of 'editing' of glycated albumin is decreased significantly in diabetic mice. Quantitative measurements of overall excretion of glycated albumin suggested that the loss of editing in diabetic mice is due to the dilution of glycated albumin by the unmodified albumin which is excreted in large amounts in diabetic mice. Therefore, the loss of editing observed in this model resembled the one we characterized in insulin-dependent diabetic humans and a streptozotocin-diabetic rat model.
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- A Kowluru
- Division of Life Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California, New Mexico 87545
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Bucala R, Cerami A. Advanced glycosylation: chemistry, biology, and implications for diabetes and aging. ADVANCES IN PHARMACOLOGY (SAN DIEGO, CALIF.) 1992; 23:1-34. [PMID: 1540533 DOI: 10.1016/s1054-3589(08)60961-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 364] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- R Bucala
- Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry, Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021
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Modification of sialic acid-MBTH assay for quantitative determination of nonenzymatically glucosylated proteins. Microchem J 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0026-265x(91)90049-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Sacks DB, Porter SE, Ladenson JH, McDonald JM. Monoclonal antibody to calmodulin: development, characterization, and comparison with polyclonal anti-calmodulin antibodies. Anal Biochem 1991; 194:369-77. [PMID: 1862939 DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(91)90243-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Specific anti-calmodulin rabbit polyclonal and murine monoclonal antibodies have been produced with a thyroglobulin-linked peptide corresponding to amino acids 128-148 of bovine brain calmodulin. The monoclonal antibody is IgG-1 with kappa light chains. Both sets of antibodies recognize native vertebrate calmodulin, with the polyclonal antibody exhibiting an approximately fourfold higher sensitivity than the monoclonal antibody in a radioimmunoassay. The affinity of both polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies is approximately 2.5-fold higher for Ca(2+)-free calmodulin than for Ca(2+)-calmodulin. Other selected members of the calmodulin family (S100, troponin, and parvalbumin) do not exhibit significant cross-reactivity with the monoclonal antibody. Troponin and S100 beta displace some 125I-calmodulin from the polyclonal antibody, but require at least 900-fold excess concentration. The monoclonal antibody recognizes intact vertebrate calmodulin in solution and also on solid-phase. In addition, plant calmodulin and some forms of post-translationally modified calmodulin (phosphorylated or glycated) bind the monoclonal antibody. The affinity of the monoclonal antibody is approximately 5 x 10(8) liters/mol determined by displacement of 125I-calmodulin. On dot blotting the sensitivity for vertebrate calmodulin is 50 pg. The epitope for the monoclonal antibody is in the carboxyl terminal region (residues 107-148) of calmodulin. This highly specific anti-calmodulin monoclonal antibody should be a useful reagent in elucidating the mechanism by which calmodulin regulates intracellular metabolism.
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- D B Sacks
- Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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Yacko MA, Vanaman TC, Butterfield DA. Spin labeling studies of wheat germ calmodulin in solution. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1064:7-12. [PMID: 1851042 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(91)90405-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Electron paramagnetic resonance was used to investigate the physical state of plant calmodulin in solution. Wheat germ calmodulin contains a single cysteine residue (Cys-27) on the first of four calcium binding loops. In this study the nitroxide spin label 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-maleimidopiperidine-1-oxyl (MAL-6) was covalently attached to Cys-27 to produce a Ca(2+)-sensitive, biologically-active, labeled protein. The rotational correlation time of the spin label, a measure of its rotational mobility and reflective of the physical state of this region of the protein, was calculated under various conditions. Relative to control, changes in the physical state of the protein reflected by increased motion of the spin label were observed at high pH, low ionic strength and upon addition of Ca2+. These results extend knowledge of the structure of the protein, previously known from solid state and biochemical studies, to calmodulin in solution.
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- M A Yacko
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506-0055
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