Abstract
The gel-overlay technique with 125I-labelled calmodulin allowed the detection of several calmodulin-binding proteins of Mr 280 000, 150 000, 97 000, 56 000, 35 000 and 24 000 in canine cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. Only two calmodulin-binding proteins could be identified unambiguously. Among them, the 97 000-Mr protein that undergoes phosphorylation in the presence of Ca2+ and calmodulin, is likely to be glycogen phosphorylase. In contrast, the (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-activated ATPase did not appear to bind calmodulin under our experimental conditions. The second known calmodulin target is dephosphophospholamban, which migrates with an apparent Mr of 24 000. The dimeric as well as the monomeric form of phospholamban was found to bind calmodulin. Phospholamban shifts the apparent Kd of erythrocyte (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-activated ATPase for calmodulin, suggesting thus a tight binding of calmodulin to the proteolipid. Interestingly enough, phospholamban phosphorylation by either the catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase or the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent phospholamban kinase was found to inhibit calmodulin binding.