Measurement of plasma membrane calcium-calmodulin-dependent ATPase (PMCA) activity.

Tamer M A Mohamed, Florence M. Baudoin-Stanley, Riham Abou-Leisa, Elizabeth Cartwright, Ludwig Neyses, Delvac Oceandy

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    Abstract

    The plasma membrane calcium-calmodulin-dependent ATPase (PMCA) is a calcium-extruding enzymatic pump that ejects calcium from the cytoplasm to the extracellular compartment. Although in excitable cells such as skeletal and cardiac muscle cells PMCA has been shown to play only a minor role in regulating global intracellular calcium concentration, increasing evidence points to an important role for PMCA in signal transduction, in particular in the nitric oxide signaling pathway. Moreover, recent evidence has shown the functional importance of PMCA in mediating cardiac contractility and vascular tone. Here we describe a method in determining PMCA activity in the microsomal membrane preparation from cultured cells that overexpress specific isoform of PMCA by using modified coupled enzyme assay.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)|Methods Mol. Biol.
    Subtitle of host publicationMethods and Protocols
    Place of PublicationNew York
    PublisherSpringer Nature
    Pages333-342
    Number of pages9
    Volume637
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010

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