Research Article
Dimerization of Peptides by Calcium Ions: Investigation of a Calcium-Binding Motif
Table 1
Major calcium-binding proteins in the nervous system.
| Present in most cell types, including neurons | Present in certain cell types in CNS |
| EF-hand family | EF-hand family | Calmodulin [30] (ubiquitous calcium-dependent modulator of protein kinases and other enzymes) | Parvalbumin [31] (in some neurons) | Calpains [32] (calcium-dependent proteases) | Calbindin-D28K [33] (in some neurons) | α-Actinin [34] | Calretinin [33] (in some neurons) | Other families | Recoverin, visinin [35] (in photoreceptors; regulating guanylyl cyclase) | Annexins [36] (Ca2+-phospholipid-binding proteins of unknown function, but implicated in exocytosis) | S100α and S100β [9, 36] (in glia; effects on phosphorylation and neurite outgrowth) | Protein kinase C [37] | |
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