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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 108, Issue 2 685-698, Copyright © 1995 by Company of Biologists

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Identification of a novel Ca(2+)-regulated protein that is associated with the marginal band and centrosomes of chicken erythrocytes

J Zhu, SE Bloom, E Lazarides and C Woods
Department of Pharmacology, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA 19486, USA.

We have identified a novel Ca(2+)-regulated protein, p23, that is expressed specifically in avian erythrocyte and thrombocyte lineages. Sequence analysis of this 23 kDa protein reveals that it bears no homology to any known sequence. In mature definitive erythrocytes p23 exists in equilibrium between a soluble and a cytoskeletal bound pool. The cytoskeletal fraction is associated with the marginal band of microtubules, centrosomes and nuclear membrane under conditions of low free [Ca2+]. An increase in free [Ca2+] to 10(-6) M is sufficient to induce dissociation of > 95% of bound p23 from its target cytoskeletal binding sites, yet this [Ca2+] has little effect on calmodulin-mediated MB depolymerization. Analysis of p23 expression and localization during erythropoiesis together with results from heterologous p23 expression in tissue cultured cells demonstrated that this protein does not behave as a bone fide microtubule-associated protein. In addition, the developmental analysis revealed that although p23 is expressed early in definitive erythropoeisis, its association with the MB, centrosome and nuclear membrane occurs only in the final stages of differentiation. This cytoskeletal association correlates with marked p23 stabilization and accumulation at a time p23 expression is being markedly downregulated. We hypothesize that the mechanism of p23 association to the MB and centrosomes may be induced in part by a decrease in intracellular [Ca2+] during the terminal stages of definitive erythropoiesis.


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