Azidotyrosylcalmodulin derivatives. Specific probes for protein-binding domains.
J Biol Chem 1984;
259:15414-24. [PMID:
6096370]
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Abstract
Azidocalmodulin has been shown to be a useful probe for calmodulin-binding proteins in a variety of systems (Andreasen, T. J., Keller, C. H. LaPorte, D. C., Edelman, A. M., and Storm, D. R. (1981) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 78, 2782-2785). In previous work, this calmodulin derivative was generated by the modification of lysyl residues. We report here that, on the basis of tryptic peptide mapping by reverse-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography, azidolysylcalmodulin prepared by these procedures is modified at 4 of the 7 lysines. We also report the preparation of azidocalmodulins in which the photolabile moiety is incorporated into a single known residue of the molecule by modifying one or the other of the two tyrosyl side chains. This yields azido-Tyr 99-calmodulin, with the photoaffinity label in Ca2+-binding loop III, and azido-Tyr 138-calmodulin, with the photoaffinity label in Ca2+-binding loop IV. The cross-linking characteristics of these two calmodulin derivatives show that the formation of a covalent adduct upon photolysis of a mixture of azidocalmodulin and a target protein is dependent on the location of the nitrene generated by the irradiation. Azido-Tyr 138-calmodulin shows a significant decrease in cross-linking efficiency to targets such as troponin I, troponin T, and myosin light-chain kinase, relative to azido-Tyr 99-calmodulin and the azidolysyl derivatives.
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