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ArticlePloS one2017

Novel calpain families and novel mechanisms for calpain regulation in Aplysia.

Margaret H Hastings, Katrina Gong, Alexander Freibauer, Caitlin Courchesne, Xiaotang Fan, Wayne S Sossin

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Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Margaret H HastingsDepartment of Psychology Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Katrina GongDepartment of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Alexander FreibauerDepartment of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Caitlin CourchesneDepartment of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Xiaotang FanDepartment of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Wayne S SossinDepartment of Psychology Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1927-9315
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Calpains are a family of intracellular proteases defined by a conserved protease domain. In the marine mollusk Aplysia californica, calpains are important for the induction of long-term synaptic plasticity and memory, at least in part by cleaving protein kinase Cs (PKCs) into constitutively active kinases, termed protein kinase Ms (PKMs). We identify 14 genes encoding calpains in Aplysia using bioinformatics, including at least one member of each of the four major calpain families into which metazoan calpains are generally classified, as well as additional truncated and atypical calpains. Six classical calpains containing a penta-EF-hand (PEF) domain are present in Aplysia. Phylogenetic analysis determined that these six calpains come from three separate classical calpain families. One of the classical calpains in Aplysia, AplCCal1, has been implicated in plasticity. We identify three splice cassettes and an alternative transcriptional start site in AplCCal1. We characterize several of the possible isoforms of AplCCal1 in vitro, and demonstrate that AplCCal1 can cleave PKCs into PKMs in a calcium-dependent manner in vitro. We also find that AplCCal1 has a novel mechanism of auto-inactivation through N-terminal cleavage that is modulated through its alternative transcriptional start site.

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AnimalsAplysiaCalpainNeuronal PlasticityPhylogenyTranscription, GeneticCalpain

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PMID29053733
PMCPMC5650170
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