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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 275, Issue 50, 39555-39568, December 15, 2000

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Molecular Cloning, Expression, Functional Characterization, Chromosomal Localization, and Gene Structure of Junctate, a Novel Integral Calcium Binding Protein of Sarco(endo)plasmic Reticulum Membrane^*

Susan Treves, Giordana Feriotto^§, Luca Moccagatta^¶, Roberto Gambari^**, and Francesco Zorzato^¶

From the  Departments of Anaesthesia and Research, Hebelstrasse 20, Kantonsspital, 4031 Basel, Switzerland and the ^§ Biotechnology Centre, ^¶ Department of Experimental and Diagnostic Medicine, Section of General Pathology, and  Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ferrara, 44100 Ferrara, Italy

Screening a cDNA library from human skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle with a cDNA probe derived from junctin led to the isolation of two groups of cDNA clones. The first group displayed a deduced amino acid sequence that is 84% identical to that of dog heart junctin, whereas the second group had a single open reading frame that encoded a polypeptide with a predicted mass of 33 kDa, whose first 78 NH₂-terminal residues are identical to junctin whereas its COOH terminus domain is identical to aspartyl -hydroxylase, a member of the -ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase family. We named the latter amino acid sequence junctate. Northern blot analysis indicates that junctate is expressed in a variety of human tissues including heart, pancreas, brain, lung, liver, kidney, and skeletal muscle. Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis revealed that the genetic loci of junctin and junctate map to the same cytogenetic band on human chromosome 8. Analysis of intron/exon boundaries of the genomic BAC clones demonstrate that junctin, junctate, and aspartyl -hydroxylase result from alternative splicing of the same gene.

The predicted lumenal portion of junctate is enriched in negatively charged residues and is able to bind calcium. Scatchard analysis of equilibrium ⁴⁵Ca²⁺ binding in the presence of a physiological concentration of KCl demonstrate that junctate binds 21.0 mol of Ca²⁺/mol protein with a k_D of 217 ± 20 µM (n = 5). Tagging recombinant junctate with green fluorescent protein and expressing the chimeric polypeptide in COS-7-transfected cells indicates that junctate is located in endoplasmic reticulum membranes and that its presence increases the peak amplitude and transient calcium released by activation of surface membrane receptors coupled to InsP₃ receptor activation.

Our study shows that alternative splicing of the same gene generates the following functionally distinct proteins: an enzyme (aspartyl -hydroxylase), a structural protein of SR (junctin), and a membrane-bound calcium binding protein (junctate).

The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBank^TM/EMBL Data Bank with accession number(s) AF306765.

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