Presence of calmodulin in Tetrahymena.
AUTOR(ES)
Jamieson, G A
RESUMO
Ca-dependent affinity chromatography on phenothiazine-Sepharose 4B has been used to isolate a pure protein from the ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis. This protein has been identified as calmodulin by demonstrating three of the Ca-dependent activities attributed to calmodulins. Tetrahymena calmodulin also has physicochemical properties similar to those of the previously characterized mammalian, coelenterate, and plant proteins, except for a lower molecular weight (15,000) and slightly different CNBr fragments compared to bovine brain calmodulin. Calmodulin is a constituent of demembranated Tetrahymena cilia from which it can be extracted with the crude dynein fraction. Sucrose density gradient fractionation indicated its presence in fractions containing the 14S dynein ATPase. It is concluded that the essential properties of calmodulin have been highly conserved during much of eukaryotic evolution, and it is suggested that calmodulin plays a role in the control of ciliary motility in Tetrahymena.
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