A note on Ca2+ binding to calmodulin.

Binding of Ca2+ to calmodulin has been simulated on the basis of a model that assumes two classes, two sites in each class, of Ca2+ binding sites. With properly chosen values of binding constants for the two classes of sites, and with the assumption that certain degree of positive cooperativity exists between the two sites in each class, the overall binding isotherm can be generated so that it appears to be a single-transition, non-cooperative binding curve of four equivalent sites. Thus this model offers a resolution for some of the discrepancies among Ca2+ binding studies of calmodulin.

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