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Facts about Calumenin.
Binds 7 calcium ions with a low affinity (By similarity). .
Human | |
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Gene Name: | CALU |
Uniprot: | O43852 |
Entrez: | 813 |
Belongs to: |
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CREC family |
calumenin; crocalbin; crocalbin-like protein; FLJ90608; IEF SSP 9302; multiple EF-hand protein
Mass (kDA):
37.107 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 7q32.1 |
Sequence: | 7; NC_000007.14 (128739359..128773400) |
Ubiquitously expressed. Expressed at high levels in heart, placenta and skeletal muscle, at lower levels in lung, kidney and pancreas and at very low levels in brain and liver.
Endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Golgi apparatus. Secreted. Melanosome. Sarcoplasmic reticulum lumen. Identified by mass spectrometry in melanosome fractions from stage I to stage IV.
PMID: 9675259 by Vorum H., et al. Molecular cloning of a cDNA encoding human calumenin, expression in Escherichia coli and analysis of its Ca2+-binding activity.
PMID: 9598325 by Yabe D., et al. Human calumenin gene (CALU): cDNA isolation and chromosomal mapping to 7q32.