A radiometric assay for Sadenosylmethionine:calmodulin(lysine)N-methyltransferase in tissue extracts has been developed. This assay utilizes the non-N-methylated calmodulin from Dictyostelium discoideum as a substrate and calciumdependent hydrophobic interaction chromatography to isolate the reactio
Separation of calmodulin from calcium-activated protein kinase using calcium-dependent hydrophobic interaction chromatography
β Scribed by N.H. Battey; M.A. Venis
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1020 KB
- Volume
- 170
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2697
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β¦ Synopsis
To determine whether a Ca2+-activated protein kinase is regulated by calmodulin, it is necessary to separate it from endogenous calmodulin and from protein kinase activity that is not calcium dependent. We describe here a procedure for achieving these goals using Ca2+-dependent hydrophobic interaction chromatography on phenyl Sepharose in combination with a pH change. The procedure is based on the observation that while calmodulin solubilized from apple fruit membranes binds to phenyl Sepharose in a Ca2+-dependent fashion at both pH 7.0 and 8.5, Ca2+-activated protein kinase from the same source only shows a Ca2+-dependent interaction above pH 7.5. The implications of this finding for the regulation of this Ca2+-activated protein kinase are briefly discussed.
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