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    Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2004 Oct 1;322(4):1131-9.

    Hippocalcin in the olfactory epithelium: a mediator of second messenger signaling.

    Mammen A, Simpson PJ, Nighorn A, Imanishi Y, Palczewski K, Ronnett GV, Moon C.

    Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

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    • Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2005 Jan 21;326(3):following 694. Mamman, Alex [corrected to Mammen, Alex]; Simpson, Jeanette P [corrected to Simpson, Phillis J].

    Intracellular Ca2+ plays an important role in a variety of second messenger cascades. The function of Ca2+ is mediated, in part, by Ca2+-binding proteins such as calmodulin, calretinin, calbindin, neurocalcin, recoverin, and visinin-like proteins (VILIPs). These proteins are highly expressed in rat olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) and are localized to distinct intracellular regions. In the present study, we have identified another Ca2+-binding protein, hippocalcin, in the rat olfactory epithelium (OE). Olfactory/brain hippocalcin shows high sequence homology with hippocalcins expressed in mice and humans. Hippocalcin was predominantly localized to the olfactory cilia, the site of the initial events of olfactory signal transduction, and was found to regulate the activity of ciliary adenylate cyclases (ACs) and particulate guanylyl cyclases (GCs) in a Ca2+-dependent manner. These data indicate that hippocalcin is expressed in rat ORNs, and is likely to regulate second messenger cascades in a Ca2+-dependent manner. Copyright 2004 Elsevier Inc.

    PMID: 15336960 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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