Ca(2+)/Calmodulin-binding proteins from the C. elegans proteome |
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Authors: | Shen Xinchun Valencia C Alexander Gao Weiyi Cotten Steven W Dong Biao Huang Bao-Cheng Liu Rihe |
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Affiliation: | School of Pharmacy and Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States. |
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Abstract: | Calmodulin (CaM) is the primary Ca(2+)-sensor that regulates a wide variety of cellular processes in eukaryotes. Although many Ca(2+)/CaM-binding proteins have been identified, very few such proteins could be found from the genome-wide protein-protein interaction maps of Caenorhabditis elegans constructed by yeast two-hybrid screening. Using a genotype-phenotype conjugation method called mRNA-display, we performed a selection for Ca(2+)/CaM-binding proteins from a proteome library of C. elegans. The method allowed the identification of 9 known and 47 previously uncharacterized Ca(2+)-dependent CaM-binding proteins from the adult worm proteome. The Ca(2+)/CaM-binding properties of these proteins were characterized and their binding motifs were identified. The availability of such information could facilitate our understanding of the signaling pathways mediated by Ca(2+)/CaM in C. elegans. Due to its simplicity and efficiency, the method could be readily applied to examine the Ca(2+)-dependent binding partners of numerous other Ca(2+)-binding proteins, which may play important roles in many signaling pathways in C. elegans. |
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