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A review of methods used for identifying structural changes in a large protein complex. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 796:117-32. [PMID: 22052488 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-334-9_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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This chapter explores the structural responses of a massive, hetero-oligomeric protein complex to a single allosteric activator as probed by a wide range of chemical, biochemical, and biophysical approaches. Some of the approaches used are amenable only to large protein targets, whereas others push the limits of their utility. Some of the techniques focus on individual subunits, or portions thereof, while others examine the complex as a whole. Despite the absence of crystallographic data for the complex, the diverse techniques identify and implicate a small region of its catalytic subunit as the master allosteric activation switch for the entire complex.
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Skelding KA, Rostas JAP. The role of molecular regulation and targeting in regulating calcium/calmodulin stimulated protein kinases. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2012; 740:703-30. [PMID: 22453966 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2888-2_31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Calcium/calmodulin-stimulated protein kinases can be classified as one of two types - restricted or multifunctional. This family of kinases contains several structural similarities: all possess a calmodulin binding motif and an autoinhibitory region. In addition, all of the calcium/calmodulin-stimulated protein kinases examined in this chapter are regulated by phosphorylation, which either activates or inhibits their kinase activity. However, as the multifunctional calcium/calmodulin-stimulated protein kinases are ubiquitously expressed, yet regulate a broad range of cellular functions, additional levels of regulation that control these cell-specific functions must exist. These additional layers of control include gene expression, signaling pathways, and expression of binding proteins and molecular targeting. All of the multifunctional calcium/calmodulin-stimulated protein kinases examined in this chapter appear to be regulated by these additional layers of control, however, this does not appear to be the case for the restricted kinases.
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- Kathryn A Skelding
- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Faculty of Health, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
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Boulatnikov IG, Peters JL, Nadeau OW, Sage JM, Daniels PJ, Kumar P, Walsh DA, Carlson GM. Expressed phosphorylase b kinase and its alphagammadelta subcomplex as regulatory models for the rabbit skeletal muscle holoenzyme. Biochemistry 2009; 48:10183-91. [PMID: 19764815 DOI: 10.1021/bi901429y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Understanding the regulatory interactions among the 16 subunits of the (alphabetagammadelta)(4) phosphorylase b kinase (PhK) complex can only be achieved through reconstructing the holoenzyme or its subcomplexes from the individual subunits. In this study, recombinant baculovirus carrying a vector containing a multigene cassette was created to coexpress in insect cells alpha, beta, gamma, and delta subunits corresponding to rabbit skeletal muscle PhK. The hexadecameric recombinant PhK (rPhK) and its corresponding alphagammadelta trimeric subcomplex were purified to homogeneity with proper subunit stoichiometries. The catalytic activity of rPhK at pH 8.2 and its ratio of activities at pH 6.8 versus pH 8.2 were comparable to those of PhK purified from rabbit muscle (RM PhK), as was the hysteresis (autoactivation) in the rate of product formation at pH 6.8. Both the rPhK and alphagammadelta exhibited only a very low Ca(2+)-independent activity and a Ca(2+)-dependent activity similar to that of the native holoenzyme with [Ca(2+)](0.5) of 0.4 microM for the RM PhK, 0.7 microM for the rPhK, and 1.5 microM for the alphagammadelta trimer. The RM PhK, rPhK, and alphagammadelta subcomplex were also all activated through self-phosphorylation. Using cross-linking and limited proteolysis, the alpha-gamma intersubunit contacts previously observed within the intact RM PhK complex were also observed within the recombinant alphagammadelta subcomplex. Our results indicate that both the rPhK and alphagammadelta subcomplex are promising models for future structure-function studies on the regulation of PhK activity through intersubunit contacts, because both retained the regulatory properties of the enzyme purified from skeletal muscle.
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- Igor G Boulatnikov
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66160, USA
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Jeyasingham MD, Artigues A, Nadeau OW, Carlson GM. Structural evidence for co-evolution of the regulation of contraction and energy production in skeletal muscle. J Mol Biol 2008; 377:623-9. [PMID: 18281058 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.12.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2007] [Accepted: 12/21/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Skeletal muscle phosphorylase kinase (PhK) is a Ca(2+)-dependent enzyme complex, (alpha beta gamma delta)(4), with the delta subunit being tightly bound endogenous calmodulin (CaM). The Ca(2+)-dependent activation of glycogen phosphorylase by PhK couples muscle contraction with glycogen breakdown in the "excitation-contraction-energy production triad." Although the Ca(2+)-dependent protein-protein interactions among the relevant contractile components of muscle are well characterized, such interactions have not been previously examined in the intact PhK complex. Here we show that zero-length cross-linking of the PhK complex produces a covalent dimer of its catalytic gamma and CaM subunits. Utilizing mass spectrometry, we determined the residues cross-linked to be in an EF hand of CaM and in a region of the gamma subunit sharing high sequence similarity with the Ca(2+)-sensitive molecular switch of troponin I that is known to bind actin and troponin C, a homolog of CaM. Our findings represent an unusual binding of CaM to a target protein and supply an explanation for the low Ca(2+) stoichiometry of PhK that has been reported. They also provide direct structural evidence supporting co-evolution of the coordinate regulation by Ca(2+) of contraction and energy production in muscle through the sharing of a common structural motif in troponin I and the catalytic subunit of PhK for their respective interactions with the homologous Ca(2+)-binding proteins troponin C and CaM.
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- Marina D Jeyasingham
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Mail Stop 3030, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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Priddy TS, Middaugh CR, Carlson GM. Electrostatic changes in phosphorylase kinase induced by its obligatory allosteric activator Ca2+. Protein Sci 2007; 16:517-27. [PMID: 17322534 PMCID: PMC2203309 DOI: 10.1110/ps.062577507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Skeletal muscle phosphorylase kinase (PhK) is a 1.3-MDa hexadecameric complex that catalyzes the phosphorylation and activation of glycogen phosphorylase b. PhK has an absolute requirement for Ca(2+) ions, which couples the cascade activation of glycogenolysis with muscle contraction. Ca(2+) activates PhK by binding to its nondissociable calmodulin subunits; however, specific changes in the structure of the PhK complex associated with its activation by Ca(2+) have been poorly understood. We present herein the first comparative investigation of the physical characteristics of highly purified hexadecameric PhK in the absence and presence of Ca(2+) ions using a battery of biophysical probes as a function of temperature. Ca(2+)-induced differences in the tertiary and secondary structure of PhK measured by fluorescence, UV absorption, FTIR, and CD spectroscopies as low resolution probes of PhK's structure were subtle. In contrast, the surface electrostatic properties of solvent accessible charged and polar groups were altered upon the binding of Ca(2+) ions to PhK, which substantially affected both its diffusion rate and electrophoretic mobility, as measured by dynamic light scattering and zeta potential analyses, respectively. Overall, the observed physicochemical effects of Ca(2+) binding to PhK were numerous, including a decrease in its electrostatic surface charge that reduced particle mobility without inducing a large alteration in secondary structure content or hydrophobic tertiary interactions. Without exception, for all analyses in which the temperature was varied, the presence of Ca(2+) rendered the enzyme increasingly labile to thermal perturbation.
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- Timothy S Priddy
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA
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Nadeau OW, Anderson DW, Yang Q, Artigues A, Paschall JE, Wyckoff GJ, McClintock JL, Carlson GM. Evidence for the location of the allosteric activation switch in the multisubunit phosphorylase kinase complex from mass spectrometric identification of chemically crosslinked peptides. J Mol Biol 2006; 365:1429-45. [PMID: 17123541 PMCID: PMC1852525 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.10.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2006] [Revised: 10/10/2006] [Accepted: 10/18/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Phosphorylase kinase (PhK), an (alphabetagammadelta)(4) complex, regulates glycogenolysis. Its activity, catalyzed by the gamma subunit, is tightly controlled by phosphorylation and activators acting through allosteric sites on its regulatory alpha, beta and delta subunits. Activation by phosphorylation is predominantly mediated by the regulatory beta subunit, which undergoes a conformational change that is structurally linked with the gamma subunit and that is characterized by the ability of a short chemical crosslinker to form beta-beta dimers. To determine potential regions of interaction of the beta and gamma subunits, we have used chemical crosslinking and two-hybrid screening. The beta and gamma subunits were crosslinked to each other in phosphorylated PhK, and crosslinked peptides from digests were identified by Fourier transform mass spectrometry, beginning with a search engine developed "in house" that generates a hypothetical list of crosslinked peptides. A conjugate between beta and gamma that was verified by MS/MS corresponded to crosslinking between K303 in the C-terminal regulatory domain of gamma (gammaCRD) and R18 in the N-terminal regulatory region of beta (beta1-31), which contains the phosphorylatable serines 11 and 26. A synthetic peptide corresponding to residues 1-22 of beta inhibited the crosslinking between beta and gamma, and was itself crosslinked to K303 of gamma. In two-hybrid screening, the beta1-31 region controlled beta subunit self-interactions, in that they were favored by truncation of this region or by mutation of the phosphorylatable serines 11 and 26, thus providing structural evidence for a phosphorylation-dependent subunit communication network in the PhK complex involving at least these two regulatory regions of the beta and gamma subunits. The sum of our results considered together with previous findings implicates the gammaCRD as being an allosteric activation switch in PhK that interacts with all three of the enzyme's regulatory subunits and is proximal to the active site cleft.
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- Owen W. Nadeau
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66209
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66209
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66209
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66209
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- Division of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri 66211
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- Division of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri 66211
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66209
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66209
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Rice NA, Nadeau OW, Yang Q, Carlson GM. The calmodulin-binding domain of the catalytic gamma subunit of phosphorylase kinase interacts with its inhibitory alpha subunit: evidence for a Ca2+ sensitive network of quaternary interactions. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:14681-7. [PMID: 11847235 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m201229200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Chemical cross-linking as a probe of conformation has consistently shown that activators, including Ca(2+) ions, of the (alphabetagammadelta)(4) phosphorylase kinase holoenzyme (PhK) alter the interactions between its regulatory alpha and catalytic gamma subunits. The gamma subunit is also known to interact with the delta subunit, an endogenous molecule of calmodulin that mediates the activation of PhK by Ca(2+) ions. In this study, we have used two-hybrid screening and chemical cross-linking to dissect the regulatory quaternary interactions involving these subunits. The yeast two-hybrid system indicated that regions near the C termini of the gamma (residues 343-386) and alpha (residues 1060-1237) subunits interact. The association of this region of alpha with gamma was corroborated by the isolation of a cross-linked fragment of alpha containing residues 1015-1237 from an alpha-gamma dimer that had been formed within the PhK holoenzyme by formaldehyde, a nearly zero-length cross-linker. Because the region of gamma that we found to interact with alpha has previously been shown to contain a high affinity binding site for calmodulin (Dasgupta, M., Honeycutt, T., and Blumenthal, D. K. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 17156-17163), we tested the influence of Ca(2+) on the conformation of the alpha subunit and found that the region of alpha that interacts with gamma was, in fact, perturbed by Ca(2+). The results herein support the existence of a Ca(2+)-sensitive communication network among the delta, gamma, and alpha subunits, with the regulatory domain of gamma being the primary mediator. The similarity of such a Ca(2+)-dependent network to the interactions among troponin C, troponin I, and actin is discussed in light of the known structural and functional similarities between troponin I and the gamma subunit of PhK.
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- Nancy A Rice
- Division of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri 64110-2499, USA
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Tung CS, Wall ME, Gallagher SC, Trewhella J. A model of troponin-I in complex with troponin-C using hybrid experimental data: the inhibitory region is a beta-hairpin. Protein Sci 2000; 9:1312-26. [PMID: 10933496 PMCID: PMC2144674 DOI: 10.1110/ps.9.7.1312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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We present a model for the skeletal muscle troponin-C (TnC)/troponin-I (TnI) interaction, a critical molecular switch that is responsible for calcium-dependent regulation of the contractile mechanism. Despite concerted efforts by multiple groups for more than a decade, attempts to crystallize troponin-C in complex with troponin-I, or in the ternary troponin-complex, have not yet delivered a high-resolution structure. Many groups have pursued different experimental strategies, such as X-ray crystallography, NMR, small-angle scattering, chemical cross-linking, and fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET) to gain insights into the nature of the TnC/TnI interaction. We have integrated the results of these experiments to develop a model of the TnC/TnI interaction, using an atomic model of TnC as a scaffold. The TnI sequence was fit to each of two alternate neutron scattering envelopes: one that winds about TnC in a left-handed sense (Model L), and another that winds about TnC in a right-handed sense (Model R). Information from crystallography and NMR experiments was used to define segments of the models. Tests show that both models are consistent with available cross-linking and FRET data. The inhibitory region TnI(95-114) is modeled as a flexible beta-hairpin, and in both models it is localized to the same region on the central helix of TnC. The sequence of the inhibitory region is similar to that of a beta-hairpin region of the actin-binding protein profilin. This similarity supports our model and suggests the possibility of using an available profilin/actin crystal structure to model the TnI/actin interaction. We propose that the beta-hairpin is an important structural motif that communicates the Ca2+-activated troponin regulatory signal to actin.
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- C S Tung
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Ramos CH. Mapping subdomains in the C-terminal region of troponin I involved in its binding to troponin C and to thin filament. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:18189-95. [PMID: 10373418 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.26.18189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Troponin I (TnI) is the inhibitory component of troponin, the ternary complex that regulates skeletal and cardiac muscle contraction. Previous work showed that the C-terminal region of TnI, when linked to the "inhibitory region" (residues 98-116), possesses the major regulatory functions of the molecule (Farah, C. S., Miyamoto, C. A., Ramos, C. H. I., Silva, A. C. R., Quaggio, R. B., Fujimori, K., Smillie, L. B., and Reinach, F. C. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 5230-5240). To investigate these functions in more detail, serial deletion mutants of the C-terminal region of TnI were constructed. These experiments showed that longer C-terminal deletions result in lower inhibition of the actomyosin ATPase activity and weaken the interaction with the N-terminal domain of troponin C (TnC), consistent with the antiparallel model for the interaction between these two proteins. The conclusion is that the whole C-terminal region of TnI is necessary for its full regulatory activity. The region between residues 137 and 144, which was shown to have homology with residues 108-115 in the inhibitory region (Farah, C. S., and Reinach, F. C. (1995) FASEB J. 9, 755-767), is involved in the binding to TnC. The region between residues 98 and 129 is involved in modulating the affinity of TnC for calcium. The C-terminal residues 166-182 are involved in the binding of TnI to thin filament. A model for the function of TnI is discussed.
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- C H Ramos
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 26077, São Paulo, SP 05599-970 Brazil.
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Nadeau OW, Sacks DB, Carlson GM. The structural effects of endogenous and exogenous Ca2+/calmodulin on phosphorylase kinase. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:26202-9. [PMID: 9334188 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.42.26202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The activity of phosphorylase b kinase (PbK) is stimulated by Ca2+ ions, which act through its endogenous calmodulin subunit (delta), and further stimulated by the Ca2+-dependent binding of exogenous calmodulin (delta'). In contrast to their highly characterized effects on activity, little is known regarding the structural effects on the (alphabetagammadelta)4 PbK holoenzyme induced by Ca2+ and delta'/Ca2+. We have used mono- and bifunctional chemical modifiers as conformational probes to compare how the two effectors influence the structure of the catalytic gamma subunit and the interactions among all of the subunits. As determined by reductive methylation and carboxymethylation, Ca2+ increased the accessibility of the gamma subunit; it also increased the formation by phenylenedimaleimide of an alphagammagamma conjugate that is characteristic of activated conformations of PbK (Nadeau, O. W., Sacks, D. M., and Carlson, G. M. (1997) J. Biol. Chem. 272, 26196-26201); however, Ca2+ also had structural effects that were clearly distinct from other activators. Moreover, similar structural effects of Ca2+ were observed with PbK that had been activated by phosphorylation, consistent with the fact that such activation does not eliminate the catalytic dependence of the enzyme on Ca2+. Our results suggest tiers of conformational transitions in the activation of PbK, with the most fundamental being induced by Ca2+. Analysis of the various cross-linked conjugates formed in the presence of Ca2+ by o-phenylenedimaleimide or m-maleimidobenzoyl-N-hydroxysuccinimide ester showed that the binding of Ca2+ to the delta subunit triggers changes in the interactions among all subunits, including between protomers, indicating an extensive communication network throughout the PbK complex. Most of the structural effects of delta'/Ca2+ were qualitatively similar to, but quantitatively greater than, the effects of Ca2+ alone; but delta'/Ca2+ also had distinct effects, especially involving cross-linking of the delta subunit.
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- O W Nadeau
- Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee 38163, USA
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Heilmeyer LM, Gerschinski AM, Meyer HE, Jennissen HP. Interaction sites on phosphorylase kinase for calmodulin. Mol Cell Biochem 1993; 127-128:19-30. [PMID: 7935351 DOI: 10.1007/bf01076754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Holophosphorylase kinase was digested with Glu-C specific protease; from the peptide mixture calmodulin binding peptides were isolated by affinity chromatography and identified by N-terminal sequence analysis. Two peptides originating from the alpha subunit, having a high tendency to form a positively charged amphiphilic helix and containing tryptophane, were synthesized. Additionally, a homologous region of the beta subunit and a peptide from the alpha subunit present in a region deleted in the alpha' isoform were also selected for synthesis. Binding stoichiometry and affinity were determined by following the enhancement in tryptophane fluorescence occurring upon 1:1 complex formation between these peptides and calmodulin. Finally, Ca2+ binding to calmodulin in presence of peptides was measured. By this way, the peptides alpha 542-566, alpha 547-571, alpha 660-677 and beta 597-614 have been found to bind specifically to calmodulin. Together with previously predicted and synthesized calmodulin binding peptides four calmodulin binding regions have been characterized on each the alpha and beta subunits. It can be concluded that endogenous calmodulin can bind to two calmodulin binding regions in gamma as well as to two regions in alpha and beta. Exogenous calmodulin can bind to two regions in alpha and in beta. A binding stoichiometry of 0.8 mol of calmodulin/alpha beta gamma delta promoter of phosphorylase kinase has been determined by inhibiting the ubiquitination of calmodulin with phosphorylase kinase. Phosphorylase kinase is half maximally activated by 23 nM calmodulin which is in the affinity range of calmodulin binding peptides from beta to calmodulin. Therefore, binding of exogenous calmodulin to beta activates the enzyme. A model for switching endogenous calmodulin between alpha, beta and gamma and modulation of ATP binding to alpha as well as Mg2+/ADP binding to beta by calmodulin is presented.
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- L M Heilmeyer
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
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Farrar Y, Lukas T, Craig T, Watterson D, Carlson G. Features of calmodulin that are important in the activation of the catalytic subunit of phosphorylase kinase. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53588-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Cawley K, Akita C, Angelos K, Walsh D. Characterization of the gene for rat phosphorylase kinase catalytic subunit. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)54059-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Sotiroudis TG, Geladopoulos TP. A domain of the alpha-subunit of rabbit phosphorylase kinase shows homologies with regions of rabbit alpha-tropomyosin, human EGF receptor, and the alpha chain of bovine S-100 protein. Biosci Rep 1992; 12:313-7. [PMID: 1421059 DOI: 10.1007/bf01122803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Sequence comparison of the alpha-subunit of phosphorylase kinase with alpha-tropomyosin revealed 32% identity, and 49% similarity, between the region of alpha-tropomyosin coded by exon 5 and a 39 amino acid segment of the kinase subunit. A subsequence of the alpha-subunit segment and a sequence overlapping the same alpha-subunit region are homologous with: (a) a region of the cytoplasmic domain of EGF receptor (50% identity) and (b) a Ca(2+)-binding domain of the alpha chain of S-100 protein (50% identity) respectively. Statistical analysis shows that these homologies are significant. The biological implication of the above similarities is discussed.
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- T G Sotiroudis
- Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
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