PMID: 3758460Jan 1, 1986Paper

Calcium-induced membrane metabolic alterations modify the sex steroids binding into dog brain synaptosomal plasma membranes

The International Journal of Biochemistry
L Kopeikina-Tsiboukidou, G Deliconstantinos

Abstract

The binding of 45Ca2+ into synaptosomal plasma membranes (SPM) of dog brain follows a sigmoid path. In graphical analysis of this binding the mean Hill coefficient (h) was 1.64 +/- 0.09 (r2 = 0.96 +/- 0.02). Binding of Ca2+ into SPM was saturable, with an apparent binding constant of 1.2 +/- 0.1 microM. At saturation, such calcium specific binding sites corresponded to 11.2 +/- 0.9 nmol/mg SPM protein. The Hill plot in combination with the biphasic nature of the curve to obtain the equilibrium constant, showed a moderate degree of positive cooperativity in the binding of calcium into SPM of at least one class of high affinity specific binding sites. [14C]estradiol, [14C]estrone and [14C]progesterone, when incubated with SPM up to a concentration of 10 microM for 2 hr at 37 degrees C, bind into SPM at nmolar concentrations. Ca2+ ions up to 5 mM considerably increase steroids binding into SPM. This effect of calcium was concentration-dependent, reached saturation at approx 4-5 mM. Once calcium has promoted steroids binding, the subsequent addition of 25 mM EGTA failed to displace bound steroids. Molecular interactions between calcium and SPM was assessed by measuring the steady-state fluorescence polarization (P) of 1,6-diphenyl-...Continue Reading

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