Novel Calcium-Binding Proteins: Fundamentals and Clinical Implications

Front Matter....Pages I-5
Calcium-Binding Proteins: Past, Present and Future....Pages 7-12
Acknowledgments....Pages 13-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The EF-Hand, Homologs and Analogs....Pages 17-37
Calcium-Binding Proteins of the EF-Hand-Type and of the Annexin Family: A Survey....Pages 39-49
Stains-All is a Dye that Probes the Conformational Features of Calcium Binding Proteins....Pages 51-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
The S-100 Protein Family: A Biochemical and Functional Overview....Pages 65-103
p9Ka, A Calcium-Ion-Binding Protein of Cultured Myoepithelial Cells....Pages 105-123
S-100-Related Proteins in Nerve Growth Factor-Induced Differentiation of PC 12 Cells....Pages 125-137
p11, A Member of the S-100 Protein Family, is Associated with the Tyrosine Kinase Substrate p36 (Annexin II)....Pages 139-155
Calcyclin, from Gene to Protein....Pages 157-167
Cloning and Characterization of a c DNA Encoding a Highly Conserved Ca 2+ -Binding Protein, Identified by an Anti-Prolactin Receptor Antibody....Pages 169-190
The Calgranulins, Members of the S-100 Protein Family: Structural Features, Expression, and Possible Function....Pages 191-223
 MRP 8 and MRP 14, Two Calcium-Binding Proteins Expressed During Myelopoiesis....Pages 225-236
Distribution of the Calcium-Binding Proteins MRP -8 and MRP -14 in Normal and Pathological Conditions: Relation to the Cystic Fibrosis Antigen....Pages 237-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Calretinin....Pages 251-276
Purification, Identification and Regional Localization of a Brain-Specific Calretinin-Like Calcium Binding Protein (Protein 10)....Pages 277-300
 LSP 1 is a New Lymphocyte-Specific Ca 2+ -Binding Protein which Co-Caps with Surface Immunoglobulin....Pages 301-320
Nonmuscle α-Actinin is an EF-Hand Protein....Pages 321-337
EF-Hands Calcium Binding Regulates the Thioredoxin Reductase/Thioredoxin Electron Transfer in Human Keratinocytes and Melanoma....Pages 339-360
Calcium-Binding Crystallins....Pages 361-374
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Cloning and Sequencing of a New Calmodulin Related Calcium-Binding Protein Controlled by Cyclic AMP Dependent Phosphorylation in the Thyroid: Calcyphosine....Pages 375-384
A 22 kDa Calcium-Binding Protein, Sorcin, is Encoded by Amplified Genes in Multidrug-Resistant Cells....Pages 385-399
Front Matter....Pages 401-401
Coordination and Stability of Calcium-Binding Site: D-Galactose/D-Glucose-Binding Protein of Bacterial Active Transport and Chemotaxis System....Pages 403-423
Calcium-Binding Sites in Myeloperoxidase and Lactoperoxidase....Pages 425-435
A Development-Specific Ca 2+ -Binding Protein from Myxococcus Xanthus ....Pages 437-446
Unique Ca 2+ -Binding Proteins in Metazoan Invertebrates....Pages 447-463
Spec Proteins: Calcium-Binding Proteins in the Embryonic Ectoderm of Sea Urchins....Pages 465-479
Calcium-Binding Proteins from Tetrahymena ....Pages 481-495
Sequence and Possible Function of a Novel Ca 2+ -Binding Protein Encoded in the Shaker -Locus of Drosophila ....Pages 497-503
A Novel EF-Hand Ca 2+ -Binding Protein is Expressed in Discrete Subsets of Muscle and Nerve Cells of Drosophila ....Pages 505-510
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
Putative Calcium-Binding Sites in Voltage-Gated Sodium and Calcium Channel α 1 Subunits....Pages 513-521
Alterations of Cellular Calcium Metabolism and Calcium Binding in Hypertension and Human Cardiac Hypertrophy....Pages 523-532
Front Matter....Pages 533-533
Diversity in the Annexin Family....Pages 535-566
Annexin I and its Biochemical Properties....Pages 567-587
The Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Human Recombinant Lipocortin 1....Pages 589-611
Back Matter....Pages 613-624