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. 2021 Nov 10;22(22):12173. doi: 10.3390/ijms222212173

Table 1.

Ca2+ binding properties of centrins.

Organism Centrin UniProt Code Experimental
Ca2+-Binding Sites a
Ca2+ Affinity b Refs
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CrCEN P05434 4 Kd1,2N = 1.2 ± 0.1 × 10−6 M
Kd3C = 2 ± 2 × 10−5 M
Kd4C = 3 ± 2 × 10−3 M
[64,65,66]
Scherffelia dubia SdCEN Q06827 3 Ka1N = 2.6 × 105 M−1
Ka2N = 4.3 × 105 M−1
Ka3C = 1.1 × 105 M−1
[52]
Homo sapiens HsCEN1 Q12798 4 Ka1,2 = 4.26 × 105 ± 9.5 × 104 M−1
Ka3,4 = 2.73 × 104 ± 2.7 × 103 M−1
[67,68]
Homo sapiens HsCEN2 P41208 2 Ka(EF-3) = 8.1 × 103 M−1
Ka(EF-4) = 1.5 × 105 M−1
[43,48,49,50,62]
Homo sapiens HsCEN3 O15182 3 Ka1N = 3.3 × 105 M−1
Ka2 = 7.0 × 103 M−1
Ka3 = 7.5 × 103 M−1
[69]
Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDC31 P06704 3 Ka(EF-1) = 3.0 × 106 M−1
Ka2C = 2.4 × 104 M−1
Ka3C = 3.5 × 104 M−1
[19,70]
Mus musculus MmCEN1 P41209 4 Ka1 = 5.23 × 105 M−1
Ka2 = 3.11 × 103 M−1
Ka3 = 2.31 × 105 M−1
Ka4 = 1.59 × 104 M−1
[51]
Arabidopsis thaliana AtCEN2 O23184 4 Ka(EF-1) = 2.9 × 105 ± 7.1 × 104 M−1
Ka(EF-2) = 4.1 × 105 ± 6.8 × 104 M−1
Ka(EF-3) = 1.4 × 104 ± 3.8 × 103 M−1
Ka(EF-4) = 3.7 × 103 ± 0.8 × 103 M−1
[22]
Toxoplasma gondii TgCEN1 A0A125YHX7 2 Ka(EF-1) = 4.8 × 105 ± 6.1 × 103 M−1
Ka(EF-2) = 3.9 × 104 ± 4.5 × 103 M−1
[53]
Toxoplasma gondii TgCEN2 A0A125YZN2 1 Ka(EF-1) = 1.6 × 104 ± 1.5 × 103 M−1 [53]
Trypanosoma brucei TbCEN4 A0A3L6L623 2 Ka(EF-3) = 3.18 × 105 ± 4.63 × 104 M−1
Ka(EF-4) = 2.63 × 104 ± 4.37 × 103 M−1
[14]
Trypanosoma brucei TbCEN5 Q382E7 2 Kd1,2 = 4.8 µM [71]
Euplotes octocarinatus EoCEN Q9XZV2 4 Ka1,2 = 1.12 ± 0.04 × 103 M−1
Ka(EF-4) = 6.82 ± 0.33 × 105 M−1
[13,72]
Blastocladiella emersonii BeCEN1 Q4F6W6 4 Kd1 = 6.06 ± 2.26 µM
Kd2 = 7.50 ± 0.44 µM
Kd3 = 75.20 ± 28.3 µM
Kd4 = 9.35 ± 0.93 µM
[73]
Blastocladiella emersonii BeCEN3 Q4F6W5 4 Kd1 = 2.45 ± 0.04 µM
Kd2 = 18.50 ± 0.86 µM
Kd3 = 2.11 ± 0.38 µM
Kd4 = 38.1 ± 7.46 µM
[73]

a Number of functional Ca2+-binding sites as experimentally measured by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) or flow dialysis analysis. b Ka = equilibrium association constant; Kd = dissociation constant. Kd is the inverse of the equilibrium association constant, Ka, (i.e., Kd = 1/Ka). N = N-terminal domain. C = C-terminal domain. Where the EF-hand site is not specified, binding affinities refer to the affinity for the first, second, third and fourth Ca2+ bound, not to the affinity of the individual sites.