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SUBMITTER: Craig TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3640266 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Craig Theodore A TA Ramachandran Pradeep L PL Bergen H Robert HR Podratz Jewel L JL Windebank Anthony J AJ Kumar Rajiv R
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20130321 4
The EF-hand protein, DREAM/KChIP3 (henceforth referred to as DREAM), regulates apoptosis by incompletely understood mechanisms. We demonstrate that in the presence of Ca2+, DREAM interacts with hexokinase I, a protein known to bind mitochondria and regulate apoptosis. A mutant DREAM protein construct incapable of binding Ca2+ does not associate with hexokinase I. The amino-terminal portion of DREAM is required for binding to hexokinase I, as a DREAM construct lacking the first 94 amino terminal ...[more]