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Molecular mobility of the Ca(2+)-deficient EF-hand of cardiac troponin C as revealed by fluorescence polarization of genetically inserted tryptophan.

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:To probe attitudinal features of the Ca(2+)-deficient site (site I) in the Ca2+ switch of cardiac troponin C (cTnC), we have examined steady-state fluorescence emission and polarization of a Trp26 inserted in a recombinant cardiac TnC (cTnC3.W) and compared these with the properties of the Ca(2+)-competent site I in skeletal TnC (sTnC4.W). The Ca(2+)-induced fluorescence emission in cTnC3.W was a fraction (25-30%) of that in sTnC4.W, in agreement with previous observations on the Ca(2+)-deficient site incorporated in a cardiac/skeletal chimera c1/s.W [Gulati, J. & Rao, V. G. (1994) Biochemistry 33, 9052-9056]. Thus, the fractional quantum yield reflected intrinsic properties of the cardiac metal ion-deficient site I. Conversely, in sTnC-1.W, where the skeletal site I also was made Ca(2+)-deficient by D27-->A substitution, the Ca(2+)-induced quantum yield was lower than that in cTnC3.W. Nevertheless, similar steady-state fluorescence polarizations for Ca(2+)-saturated sTnC4.W and cTnC3.W indicated indistinguishable final conformations in the two activated TnC isoforms. In EGTA, the polarization parameter (PEGTA) of sTnC4.W is greater than that of cardiac TnC, and the cardiac PEGTA value is closer to the activated PCa. Comparison of the chimera c1/s.W with sTnC-1.W indicated that the differences in conformation of the site I Trp for the EGTA-treated cardiac/skeletal isoforms were due to the structural disparities in this region. This contention was further supported by examination of the chimera CBc1/s.W, where the cardiac EF-hand was altered by 27VLGA30-->DAD substitution. Polarization of the relaxed form was similar to that for sTnC4.W. These findings suggest that the relaxed conformation of the cardiac Ca2+ switch is more favorably predisposed to activation than the skeletal switch.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Rao VG,Akella AB,Su H,Gulati J

doi

10.1021/bi00002a022

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-01-17 00:00:00

pages

562-8

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

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Molecular mobility of the Ca(2+)-deficient EF-hand of cardiac troponin C as revealed by fluorescence polarization of genetically inserted tryptophan.