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alpha-S1-casein; contains: casoxin-D (CSN1S1, CASA, CSN1)

Function: - important role in the capacity of milk to transport Ca+2 phosphate - not glycosylated - heteromultimers of alpha-s1 casein & kappa-casein Structure: - disulfide-linked - belongs to the alpha-casein family Compartment: secreted Alternative splicing: named isoforms=3 Expression: - mammary gland specific - secreted in milk Note: - in milk, the alpha s1- & beta-caseins precipitate in presence of Ca+2 (so-called Ca+2-sensitive caseins) - kappa-casein prevents the precipitation of the other caseins by Ca+2 through formation of large stable colloidal particles termed micelles

Specific

casoxin D

General

casein

Properties

SIZE: entity length = 185 aa MW = 22 kD COMPARTMENT: extracellular compartment MOTIF: signal sequence {1-15} Ser phosphorylation site {S31} Ser phosphorylation site {S33} Ser phosphorylation site {S41} Ser phosphorylation site {S86} Ser phosphorylation site {S88} Ser phosphorylation site {S89} Ser phosphorylation site {S90} Ser phosphorylation site {S91}

Database Correlations

OMIM 115450 UniProt P47710 Entrez Gene 1446 Kegg hsa:1446

References

  1. Wang KK et al Calmodulin-binding proteins as calpain substrates. Biochem J 262:693 1989 PMID: 2556106
  2. White et al Principles of Biochemistry, McGraw Hill Inc., New York, NY 1978 pg 1061
  3. UniProt :accession P47710
  4. Protein Spotlight; Of buttons, digestion & glue Issue 16 of November 2001 http://www.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/sptlt016.shtml