Abstract
The structures of the Ca$^2+$-ATPase (SERCA1a) have been determined
for five different states by X-ray crystallography. Detailed comparison
of the structures in the Ca$^2+$ bound form and unbound (but
thapsigargin bound) form reveals that very large rearrangements of
the transmembrane helices take place accompanying Ca$^2+$ dissociation
and binding and that they are mechanically linked with equally large
movements of the cytoplasmic domains. The meanings of the rearrangements
of the transmembrane helices and those of the cytoplasmic domains
as well as the mechanistic roles of phosphorylation are now becoming
clear. Furthermore, the roles of critical amino acid residues identified
by extensive mutagenesis studies are becoming evident in terms of
atomic structure.
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- acid
- adenosine
- amino
- animals,
- atpase,
- binding
- crystallography,
- data,
- gov't,
- ion
- models,
- molecular
- molecular,
- muscle,
- non-u.s.
- p.h.s.,
- phosphorylation,
- protein
- research
- reticulum,
- sarcoplasmic
- sequence
- sequence,
- sites,
- skeletal,
- structure,
- support,
- tertiary,
- transport,
- triphosphate,
- u.s.
- x-ray,
- {c}a$^{2+}$-transporting
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