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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 104, Issue 4 1129-1136, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists
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M Kimura, Y Yamaguchi, S Takada and K Tanabe
Biophysics Laboratory, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan.
A Ca(2+)-ATPase gene was cloned from the genomic libraries of Plasmodium falciparum. From the deduced amino acid sequence of the gene, a 139 kDa protein with a total of 1228 amino acids was predicted. Sequence of a partial cDNA clone of the gene identified two introns near the 3'-end at the regions identical to the regions assumed for the Ca(2+)-ATPase gene of P. yoelii, a rodent malaria species. As compared with a variety of Ca(2+)-ATPases, the P. falciparum Ca(2+)-ATPase had the highest amino acid sequence homology (78%) to the P. yoelii Ca(2+)-ATPase, moderate homology (45-50%) to vertebrate sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPases (SERCAs), and lowest homology (20%) to a plasma membrane Ca(2+)-ATPase. The P. falciparum protein conserved sequences and residues that are important for the function and/or structure of the organellar type Ca(2+)-ATPase, such as high affinity Ca(2+)-binding sites, fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-binding regions, and the phosphorylation site, but the protein did not contain calmodulin-binding regions that occur in the plasma membrane type Ca(2+)-ATPase. Thus we concluded the cloned gene was the organellar type Ca(2+)-ATPase of P. falciparum. In a region between the phosphorylation site and FITC-binding region, the P. falciparum protein was about 200 residues longer than the rabbit SERCA and lacked a sequence that binds to phospholamban, a protein that regulates the activity of the rabbit SERCA.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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