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. 2005 May;31(2):183–206. doi: 10.1007/s10867-005-4472-2

A Theory of Plasma Membrane Calcium Pump Stimulation and Activity

Michael Graupner 1,2,✉, Frido Erler 1, Michael Meyer-Hermann 1,3,4
PMCID: PMC3456158  PMID: 23345891

Abstract

The ATP-driven Plasma Membrane Calcium pump or Ca2+-ATPase (PMCA) is characterized by a high affinity for calcium and a low transport rate compared to other transmembrane calcium transport proteins. It plays a crucial role for calcium extrusion from cells. Calmodulin is an intracellular calcium buffering protein which is capable in its Ca2+ liganded form of stimulating the PMCA by increasing both the affinity to calcium and the maximum calcium transport rate. We introduce a new model of this stimulation process and derive analytical expressions for experimental observables in order to determine the model parameters on the basis of specific experiments. We furthermore develop a model for the pumping activity. The pumping description resolves the seeming contradiction of the Ca2+:ATP stoichiometry of 1:1 during a translocation step and the observation that the pump binds two calcium ions at the intracellular site. The combination of the calcium pumping and the stimulation model correctly describes PMCA function. We find that the processes of calmodulin-calcium complex attachment to the pump and of stimulation have to be separated. Other PMCA properties are discussed in the framework of the model. The presented model can serve as a tool for calcium dynamics simulations and provides the possibility to characterize different pump isoforms by different type-specific parameter sets.

Keywords: plasma membrane calcium pump, plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase, calmodulin, stimulation, relaxation, pumping activity, theoretical model, parameter

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