title: A thermodynamic and electron paramagnetic resonance study of structural changes in calmodulin induced by aluminum binding.
abstract: Bovine brain calmodulin binds 3 mol aluminum per mol protein with dissociation constants in range of 10(-7) to 10(-6) molar. EPR spectra of spin-labelled calmodulin provide data indicating that aluminum binding causes decreased probe immobilization as compared to the effects of calcium binding. This result of aluminum binding indicates that A1-calmodulin is a more random, open polypeptide relative to the structure of Ca2+-calmodulin. Calorimetric measurements of aluminum binding provide data showing that the first mol of aluminum bound is accompanied by the largest enthalpic change (-3.9 kcal mol-1), whereas binding of the second and third mol of aluminum are each entropically driven.
mesh_terms: D000535:Aluminum / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002147:Calmodulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D002417:Cattle; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D002147:Calmodulin; D000535:Aluminum