Calmodulin and intracellular Ca[++] receptors

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Calmodulin and intracellular Ca[++] receptors

edited by Shiro Kakiuchi, Hiroyoshi Hidaka, and Anthony R. Means

Plenum Press, c1982

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"Papers contributed by participants in the Symposium on Recent Advances in Ca[++] and Cell Function, Calmodulin and Intracellular Ca[++] Receptors, held in Kyoto, Japan, July 25-29, 1981. This meeting was one of the satellite symposia to the 8th International Congress of Pharmacology (Tokyo, 1981)"--Pref

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Molecular Basis of Calmodulin Function.- The Pharmacology of Calmodulin Antagonism: A Reappraisal.- Biopharmacological Assessment of Calmodulin Function: Utility of Calmodulin Antagonists.- Intracellular Localization of Calmodulin Antagonist, W-7.- Possible Dual Regulatory Mechanism in Smooth Muscle Actomyosin.- Ion Binding to Calmodulin.- Structure and Ca++ Dependent Conformational Change of Calmodulin.- Guanine Nucleotide Dependence of Calcium-Calmodulin Stimulation of Adenylate Cyclase in Rat Cerebral Cortex and Striatum.- Patterns of Intracellular Ca++ Distribution and Mobilization in Smooth Muscle.- Role of Ca++-Calmodulin in Metabolic Regulation in Plants.- Regulation of Calmodulin in Mammalian Cells.- Calcium and Calmodulin Dependent Regulation of Microtubule Assembly.- Calmodulin and Cytoskeleton.- Effect of the Calmodulin-Caldesmon System on the Physical State of Actin Filaments.- Mode of Calcium Binding to Smooth Muscle Contractile System.- Kinetic Studies of the Activation of Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase by Ca++ and Calmodulin.- Ca++ and Protein Phosphorylation.- The Regulation of Myosin Light Chain Kinase by Ca++ and Calmodulin in vitro and in vivo.- Phosphorylation and ATPase Activity of Smooth Muscle Myosin.- Demonstration of Two Types of Ca++ Dependent Protein Kinases in the Brain and Other Tissues.- Calmodulin Dependent Protein Kinases from Rat Brain.- A Highly Active Calcium Ion Stimulated Endogenous Protein Kinase in Myelin: Kinetic and Other Characteristics, Calmodulin Dependence and Comparison with Other Brain Kinase(s).- Interaction of Calmodulin with cAMP Dependent Protein Kinase in Brain.- Regulation of Contractile Proteins in Smooth Muscle and Platelets by Calmodulin and Cyclic AMP.- Two Transmembrane Control Mechanisms for Protein Phosphorylation in Bidirectional Regulation of Cell Functions.- Ca++ Regulation of Microfilament System.- Calcium Regulation in Amoeboid Movement.- Actinogelin: A Calcium Sensitive Regulator of Microfilament System.- Calcium Regulation of Actin Network Structure by Gelsolin.- Physical Properties of Fragmin, A Ca++ Sensitive Regulatory Protein of Actin Polymerization Isolated from Physarum Plasmodium.- Closing.- Calcium Ion and Calcium Binding Proteins.- Participants.- Contributor Index.

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