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The CREC family, a novel family of multiple EF‐hand, low‐affinity Ca 2+ ‐binding proteins localised to the secretory pathway of mammalian cells
Author(s) -
Honoré Bent,
Vorum Henrik
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)01780-9
Subject(s) - caenorhabditis elegans , drosophila melanogaster , bombyx mori , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , protein family , cell , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
The CREC family consists of a number of recently discovered multiple (up to seven) EF‐hand proteins that localise to the secretory pathway of mammalian cells. At present, the family includes reticulocalbin, ERC‐55/TCBP‐49/E6BP, Cab45, calumenin and crocalbin/CBP‐50. Similar proteins are found in quite diverse invertebrate organisms such as DCB‐45 and SCF in Drosophila melanogaster , SCF in Bombyx mori , CCB‐39 in Caenorhabditis elegans and Pfs40/PfERC in Plasmodium falciparum . The Ca 2+ affinity is rather low with dissociation constants around 10 −4 –10 −3 M. The proteins may participate in Ca 2+ ‐regulated activities. Recent evidence has been obtained that some CREC family members are involved in pathological activities such as malignant cell transformation, mediation of the toxic effects of snake venom toxins and putative participation in amyloid formation.