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extracellular Ca+2-sensing receptor; CaSR; parathyroid cell Ca+2-sensing receptor; PCaR1 (CASR, GPRC2A, PCAR1)
Function:
- senses changes in the extracellular concentration of Ca+2
- activity is mediated by a G-protein that activates a phosphatidylinositol-Ca+2 second messenger system
- interacts with VCP & RNF19A
- ubiquitinated by RNF19A; which induces proteasomal degradation
Structure:
- N-glycosylated
- belongs to the G-protein coupled receptor 3 family
- the extracellular domain of the Ca+2 receptor (605 aa length) is unusually long for serpentine receptors
- the N-terminal Ca+2 binding site is thought to function as the Ca+2 receptor through a 'Venus Flytrap' like Ca+2-binding pocket.
Compartment: cell membrane; multi-pass membrane protein
Alternative splicing: named isoforms=2
Expression:
- expressed in kidney
- not expressed in brain, lung, liver, heart, skeletal muscle, or placenta
Pathology:
- defects in CASR are the cause of
a) familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia type 1
b) neonatal severe primary hyperparathyroidism
c) autosomal dominant hypoparathyroidism
d) chronic pancreatitis [5]
Related
autosomal dominant hypoparathyroidism; familial isolated hypoparathyroidism; autosomal dominant hypocalcemia
Ca+2
familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia type I
neonatal severe primary hyperparathyroidism
parathyroid
General
Ca+2 sensor or Ca+2 sensing receptor
glycoprotein
G-protein coupled receptor; serpentine receptor
Properties
SIZE: entity length = 1078 aa
MW = 121 kD
COMPARTMENT: plasma membrane
MOTIF: exoplasmic domain {N-TERMINAL}
exoplasmic domain {20-612}
MOTIF: Ca+2-binding site
SITE: N-TERMINAL
MOTIF: N-glycosylation site {N90}
N-glycosylation site {N130}
N-glycosylation site {N261}
N-glycosylation site {N287}
N-glycosylation site {N386}
N-glycosylation site {N400}
N-glycosylation site {N446}
N-glycosylation site {N468}
N-glycosylation site {N488}
N-glycosylation site {N541}
N-glycosylation site {N594}
glycosylation site
transmembrane domain {613-635}
binding site
SITE: C-TERMINAL-CYS
EFFECTOR-BOUND: palmitate
BOUND-VIA: carboxylate
cytoplasmic loop {636-649}
transmembrane domain {650-670}
exoplasmic loop {671-681}
transmembrane domain {682-700}
cytoplasmic loop {701-724}
transmembrane domain {725-745}
exoplasmic loop {746-769}
transmembrane domain {770-792}
cytoplasmic loop {793-805}
cytoplasmic domain {C-TERMINAL}
transmembrane domain {806-828}
exoplasmic loop {829-836}
transmembrane domain {837-862}
cytoplasmic domain {863-1078}
MOTIF: RNF19A interaction {880-900}
Database Correlations
OMIM correlations
MORBIDMAP 601199
UniProt P41180
PFAM correlations
Kegg hsa:846
References
- Conklin BR, Bourne HR.
Homeostatic signals. Marriage of the flytrap and the serpent.
Nature. 1994 Jan 6;367(6458):22. No abstract available.
PMID: 8107768
- GeneReviews
https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=CASR
- SeattleSNPs
http://pga.gs.washington.edu/data/casr/
- UniProt :accession P41180
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17, 18
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015, 2018