Abstract：
:In our previous work [Yang, Z. W., & Babitch, J. A. (1988) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)] divalent cations were found to be more effective promoters of astroglial filament formation than were monovalent cations. To determine if one or more divalent cation binding sites were the basis for this difference, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) was attached to nitrocellulose membranes and bathed in 1 microM 45CaCl2 in 60 mM KCl, 0.5 mM MgCl2, and 10 mM imidazole hydrochloride, pH 7.4. After removal of unbound 45Ca2+, GFAP was observed to bind calcium. Flow dialysis experiments showed that GFAP, dissolved in 2 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, contained three classes of binding sites and 0.61 +/- 0.08 (SD), 1.7 +/- 0.4, and 4.6 +/- 0.2 sites per GFAP molecule with dissociation constants of 0.66 +/- 0.01 microM, 6.6 +/- 0.3 microM, and 44 +/- 1 microM, respectively. After addition of 0.5 mM MgSO4 to the flow dialysis solution, the high- and low-affinity sites were not observed while the remaining sites (1.95 +/- 0.15 per GFAP molecule) had a Kd = 2.16 +/- 0.25 microM. This showed that the high- and low-affinity sites are "Ca2+-Mg2+" sites while sites with intermediate affinity are calcium specific. To locate the calcium-binding regions, GFAP peptides were examined for calcium binding by calcium-45 autoradiography. The calcium-specific binding areas were localized in coil I. Computer-assisted analysis of the GFAP sequence revealed several EF-hand-like areas which could be the calcium binding sites. We conclude that divalent cations may play both structural and regulatory roles in astroglial intermediate filaments.
journal_name
Biochemistryjournal_title
Biochemistryauthors
Yang ZW,Kong CF,Babitch JAdoi
10.1021/bi00418a056subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1988-09-06 00:00:00pages
7045-50issue
18eissn
0006-2960issn
1520-4995journal_volume
27pub_type
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