title: Determinants for calmodulin binding on voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels.
abstract: Calmodulin, bound to the alpha(1) subunit of the cardiac L-type calcium channel, is required for calcium-dependent inactivation of this channel. Several laboratories have suggested that the site of interaction of calmodulin with the channel is an IQ-like motif in the carboxyl-terminal region of the alpha(1) subunit. Mutations in this IQ motif are linked to L-type Ca(2+) current (I(Ca)) facilitation and inactivation. IQ peptides from L, P/Q, N, and R channels all bind Ca(2+)calmodulin but not Ca(2+)-free calmodulin. Another peptide representing a carboxyl-terminal sequence found only in L-type channels (designated the CB domain) binds Ca(2+)calmodulin and enhances Ca(2+)-dependent I(Ca) facilitation in cardiac myocytes, suggesting the CB domain is functionally important. Calmodulin blocks the binding of an antibody specific for the CB sequence to the skeletal muscle L-type Ca(2+) channel, suggesting that this is a calmodulin binding site on the intact protein. The binding of the IQ and CB peptides to calmodulin appears to be competitive, signifying that the two sequences represent either independent or alternative binding sites for calmodulin rather than both sequences contributing to a single binding site.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pate
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mochca-Morales
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: J Z
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Rodney
authors.forename: I I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Serysheva
authors.forename: B Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Hamilton
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D020746:Calcium Channels, L-Type / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D002147:Calmodulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D002417:Cattle; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004594:Electrophysiology; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism; D009154:Mutation; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011817:Rabbits; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D020746:Calcium Channels, L-Type; D002147:Calmodulin; D010455:Peptides; D002118:Calcium