RGD Reference Report - Catalysis by phospholipase C delta1 requires that Ca2+ bind to the catalytic domain, but not the C2 domain. - Rat Genome Database

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Catalysis by phospholipase C delta1 requires that Ca2+ bind to the catalytic domain, but not the C2 domain.

Authors: Grobler, JA  Hurley, JH 
Citation: Grobler JA and Hurley JH, Biochemistry. 1998 Apr 7;37(14):5020-8.
RGD ID: 2301016
Pubmed: PMID:9538021   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1021/bi972952w   (Journal Full-text)

The hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) by phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PLC) is absolutely dependent on Ca2+. The PH domain truncated catalytic core of rat phospholipase C delta1 (PLC-delta1) has Ca2+ binding sites in its catalytic and C2 domains, and potential Ca2+ binding sites in two EF-hands. A catalytically inactive PLC-delta1 catalytic core bound with low affinity to PIP2-containing vesicles in the presence of Ca2+. A mutant PLC-delta1 has been engineered which lacks the C2 domain Ca2+ binding site and the surrounding loops known as the jaws. Isothermal calorimetric titration showed four Ca2+ ions bind to the wild-type PLC-delta1 catalytic core in solution but only one binds to the C2 domain jaws deletion mutant. The activity and Ca2+ dependence of wild-type and mutant phospholipase Cs were determined using substrate incorporated in detergent micelles and in large unilamellar vesicles. The activities of wild-type and mutant were identical to each other in both assay systems. Wild-type and the C2 jaws deletion mutant of PLC have Hill coefficients of 1.12-1.16 with respect to [Ca2+]. We conclude that a single Ca2+ bound to the catalytic domain is entirely responsible for the Ca2+ dependence of the basal activity of PLC-delta1.

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Molecular Function
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
calcium ion binding  IDA 2301016 RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Plcd1  (phospholipase C, delta 1)


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