Calumenin (CALU)

The protein contains 315 amino acids for an estimated molecular weight of 37107 Da.

 

Involved in regulation of vitamin K-dependent carboxylation of multiple N-terminal glutamate residues. Seems to inhibit gamma-carboxylase GGCX. Binds 7 calcium ions with a low affinity (By similarity). (updated: April 1, 2015)

Protein identification was indicated in the following studies:

  1. Goodman and co-workers. (2013) The proteomics and interactomics of human erythrocytes. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 238(5), 509-518.
  2. Hegedűs and co-workers. (2015) Inconsistencies in the red blood cell membrane proteome analysis: generation of a database for research and diagnostic applications. Database (Oxford) 1-8.
  3. Wilson and co-workers. (2016) Comparison of the Proteome of Adult and Cord Erythroid Cells, and Changes in the Proteome Following Reticulocyte Maturation. Mol Cell Proteomics. 15(6), 1938-1946.
  4. D'Alessandro and co-workers. (2017) Red blood cell proteomics update: is there more to discover? Blood Transfus. 15(2), 182-187.
  5. Bryk and co-workers. (2017) Quantitative Analysis of Human Red Blood Cell Proteome. J Proteome Res. 16(8), 2752-2761.

Methods

The following articles were analysed to gather the proteome content of erythrocytes.

The gene or protein list provided in the studies were processed using the ID mapping API of Uniprot in September 2018. The number of proteins identified and mapped without ambiguity in these studies is indicated below.
Only Swiss-Prot entries (reviewed) were considered for protein evidence assignation.

PublicationIdentification 1Uniprot mapping 2Not mapped /
Obsolete
TrEMBLSwiss-Prot
Goodman (2013)2289 (gene list)227853205992269
Lange (2014)123412347281224
Hegedus (2015)2638262202352387
Wilson (2016)165815281702911068
d'Alessandro (2017)18261817201815
Bryk (2017)20902060101081942
Chu (2018)18531804553621387

1 as available in the article and/or in supplementary material
2 uniprot mapping returns all protein isoforms as one entry

The compilation of older studies can be retrieved from the Red Blood Cell Collection database.

The data and differentiation stages presented below come from the proteomic study and analysis performed by our partners of the GReX consortium, more details are available in their published work.

No sequence conservation computed yet.

Interpro domains
Total structural coverage: 0%
Model score: 44

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VariantDescription
dbSNP:rs2290228

The reference OMIM entry for this protein is 603420

Calumenin; calu

CLONING

Many calcium-binding proteins are reported to be localized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and involved in such ER functions as protein folding and sorting. Among these are RCN1 (602735), RCN2 (602584), and calumenin (CALU), which form a novel family of calcium-binding proteins in the ER and Golgi apparatus. By searching sequence databases with a mouse Calu cDNA sequence (Yabe et al., 1997), Yabe et al. (1998) identified a human CALU EST, which they used to clone a full-length CALU cDNA. The cDNA encodes a deduced 315-amino acid protein containing 6 EF-hand motifs, 1 potential N-glycosylation site, and a C-terminal ER retention signal. The human and mouse CALU proteins are 98% identical. Northern blot analysis demonstrated that the 3.4-kb CALU mRNA is ubiquitously expressed in human tissues. Southern blot analysis using a human CALU cDNA probe detected bands in a variety of species.

MAPPING

Yabe et al. (1997) mapped the mouse Calu gene to the proximal portion of chromosome 7. By fluorescence in situ hybridization, Yabe et al. (1998) localized the human CALU gene to 7q32, which was an unexpected result due to the homology of synteny between proximal mouse chromosome 7 and human 19q13.2-q13.3. ... More on the omim web site

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Feb. 2, 2018: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: Uniprot description updated

Dec. 19, 2017: Protein entry updated
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Nov. 23, 2017: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: Uniprot description updated

March 16, 2016: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: OMIM entry 603420 was added.