Calcium modulating ligand

Calcium modulating ligand
Identifiers
Symbols CAMLG ; CAML
External IDs OMIM: 601118 MGI: 104728 HomoloGene: 1323 GeneCards: CAMLG Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 819 12328
Ensembl ENSG00000164615 ENSMUSG00000021501
UniProt P49069 P49070
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001745 NM_007596
RefSeq (protein) NP_001736 NP_031622
Location (UCSC) Chr 5:
134.74 – 134.75 Mb
Chr 13:
55.62 – 55.63 Mb
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Calcium modulating ligand (CAMLG or CAML), also known as calcium-modulating cyclophilin ligand, is a signalling protein recognized by the TNF receptor TACI.[1][2]

Function

The immunosuppressant drug cyclosporin A blocks a calcium-dependent signal from the T-cell receptor (TCR) that normally leads to T-cell activation. When bound to cyclophilin B, cyclosporin A binds and inactivates the key signaling intermediate calcineurin. The protein encoded by this gene functions similarly to cyclosporin A, binding to cyclophilin B and acting downstream of the TCR and upstream of calcineurin by causing an influx of calcium. This integral membrane protein appears to be a new participant in the calcium signal transduction pathway, implicating cyclophilin B in calcium signaling, even in the absence of cyclosporin.[2]

Interactions

CAMLG has been shown to interact with TNFRSF13B.[3][4]

References

  1. Bram RJ, Valentine V, Shapiro DN, Jenkins NA, Gilbert DJ, Copeland NG (March 1997). "The gene for calcium-modulating cyclophilin ligand (CAMLG) is located on human chromosome 5q23 and a syntenic region of mouse chromosome 13". Genomics 31 (2): 257–60. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0044. PMID 8824814.
  2. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: CAMLG calcium modulating ligand".
  3. von Bülow GU, Bram RJ (October 1997). "NF-AT activation induced by a CAML-interacting member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily". Science 278 (5335): 138–41. doi:10.1126/science.278.5335.138. PMID 9311921.
  4. Xia XZ, Treanor J, Senaldi G, Khare SD, Boone T, Kelley M, Theill LE, Colombero A, Solovyev I, Lee F, McCabe S, Elliott R, Miner K, Hawkins N, Guo J, Stolina M, Yu G, Wang J, Delaney J, Meng SY, Boyle WJ, Hsu H (July 2000). "TACI is a TRAF-interacting receptor for TALL-1, a tumor necrosis factor family member involved in B cell regulation". J. Exp. Med. 192 (1): 137–43. doi:10.1084/jem.192.1.137. PMC 1887716. PMID 10880535.

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