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Calmodulin is tightly associated with synaptic vesicles independent of calcium.

A protein in highly purified synaptic vesicles from elasmobranch electric organ is recognized by two specific antisera that recognize different determinants of calmodulin. The protein is indistinguishable from authentic calmodulin by migration on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence or absence of calcium. It is tightly associated with the intact synaptic vesicle membrane even in the absence of calcium. It is on vesicles rather than membrane contaminants and cytoplasmically oriented since a calmodulin antibody (sheep anti-calmodulin antibody) immunoprecipitates at least 86% of intact synaptic vesicles. Surprisingly, another calmodulin antiserum (rabbit anti-calmodulin serum) specifically precipitates less than 20% of the intact vesicles. This antiserum (rabbit anti-calmodulin serum) also detects 4-15 times less calmodulin immunoreactivity than sheep anti-calmodulin antibody by radioimmunoassay of vesicles solubilized with nondenaturing detergents. The difference essentially disappears if the vesicle calmodulin is solubilized in sodium dodecyl sulfate. We suggest that the antigenic determinant recognized by rabbit anti-calmodulin serum is concealed in vesicle-associated calmodulin and may be involved in binding calmodulin to the vesicle.[1]

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