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CELL CALCIUM
Volume 51, Issue 5, Pages 411-417Publisher
CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2012.01.004
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BCR; Calcium flux; EF-hand
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- German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [Mi832/2-2]
- Interdisciplinary Clinical Research Center Erlangen (IZKF Erlangen) [E8]
- Interdisciplinary Clinical Research Center Erlangen (IZKF Erlangen)
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The B cell receptor (BCR)-elicited calcium flux results in activation of mature B cells. We have recently shown that the adaptor protein Swiprosin-1/EFhd2 (EFhd2) amplifies the BCR-induced calcium flux in B cell lines. EFhd2 is a calcium binding adaptor protein with two predicted EF-hands. Here we asked whether these domains are functional and control its function. Using a blot-overlay assay with radioactive calcium we show that both EF-hands of EFhd2 have an intrinsic capacity to bind calcium. Equilibrium centrifugation confirmed that EFhd2 binds 2 calcium ions, with an apparent K-d of 110 mu M. Point mutations revealed that the conserved residues E116 and El 52, which reside in the canonical calcium binding loop in EF-hands 1 and 2, are essential for calcium binding by EFhd2. These mutations as well as deletion of the EFhands, in particular EF-hand 1, abolished the ability of EFhd2 to restore BCR-induced calcium signaling in EFhd2-deficient WEHI231 cells. N-terminal deletions, but not C-terminal deletions, acted similarly. Thus. the N-terminal part of EFhd2 as well as calcium binding to its EF-hands control the intracellular calcium concentration in response to BCR stimulation in WEHI231 cells. Hence, Efhd2 regulates the BCR-elicited calcium flux through a calcium-dependent positive feedback mechanism in WEHI231 cells. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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