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Calcium-dependent protein binding to phenothiazine columns.

Nonmuscle, smooth muscle, and striated muscle tissue extracts contain several proteins, in addition to calmodulin, which bind fluphenazine affinity columns in a calcium-dependent manner. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis shows four proteins in red blood cell lysates with Mr = 22,000, 12,000, 9,000, and 8,000. Rat brain tissue contains an 11,000-dalton peptide, while chicken gizzard and rabbit longissimus dorsi muscles have a similar set of peptides (67,000, 35,000, 33,000, and 11,000 daltons). These proteins all interact independently with fluphenazine and, except for the 22,000-dalton protein from red blood cells, do not bind to calmodulin-Sepharose affinity columns. Binding requires the presence of micromolar calcium, and dissociation occurs only by chelation of calcium with EDTA or ethylene glycol bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid. The muscle tissue proteins are present in ethylene glycol bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid eluates from N-(6-aminohexyl)-5-chloro-1-naphthalene sulfonamide- and phenothiazine-coupled Sepharose resins but are not bound to a Sepharose column without a coupled drug. These results suggest that the use of phenothiazines to indicate calmodulin action should be judiciously interpreted. These proteins may be functionally analogous to calmodulin in that they form a drug-binding site in a calcium-dependent manner.[1]

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  1. Calcium-dependent protein binding to phenothiazine columns. Moore, P.B., Dedman, J.R. J. Biol. Chem. (1982) [Pubmed]
 
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