Binding of La3+ to calmodulin and its effects on the interaction between calmodulin and calmodulin binding peptide, polistes mastoparan.
Binding of La(3+) to calmodulin (CaM) and its effects on the complexes of CaM and CaM-binding peptide, polistes mastoparan (Mas), were investigated by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, fluorescence and circular dichroism spectroscopy, and by the fluorescence stopped-flow method. The four binding sites of La(3+) on CaM were identified as the same as the binding sites of Ca(2+) on CaM through NMR titration of La(3+) to uniformly (15)N-labeled CaM. La(3+) showed a slightly higher affinity to the binding sites on the N-terminal domain of CaM than that to the C-terminal. Large differences between the (1)H-(15)N heteronuclear single quantum coherence (HSQC) spectra of Ca(4)CaM and La(4)CaM suggest conformational differences between the two complexes. Fluorescence and CD spectra also exhibited structural differences. In the presence of Ca(2+) and La(3+), a hybrid complex, Ca(2)La(2)CaM, was formed, and the binding of La(3+) to the N-terminal domain of CaM seemed preferable over binding to the C-terminal domain. Through fluorescence titration, it was shown that La(4)CaM and Ca(2)La(2)CaM had similar affinities to Mas as Ca(4)CaM. Fluorescence stopped-flow experiments showed that the dissociation rate of La(3+) from the C-terminal domain of CaM was higher than that from the N-terminal. However, in the presence of Mas, the dissociation rate of La(3+) decreased and the dissociation processes from both global domains were indistinguishable. In addition, compared with the case of Ca(4)CaM-Mas, the slower dissociations of Mas from La(4)CaM-Mas and Ca(2)La(2)CaM-Mas complexes indicate that in the presence of La(3+), the CaM-Mas complex became kinetically inert. A possible role of La(3+) in the Ca(2+)-CaM-dependent pathway is discussed.
Department of Chemical Biology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100083, PR China.
Jian
J
Hu
Xin
X
Jia
Qin
Q
Li
Xiaoda
X
Yang
Kui
K
Wang
D001059:Apoproteins / Q000737:chemistry; D001665:Binding Sites; D002147:Calmodulin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D002148:Calmodulin-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D002413:Cations, Divalent / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D007477:Ions / Q000737:chemistry; D007700:Kinetics; D007811:Lanthanum / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation
D001059:Apoproteins; D002147:Calmodulin; D002148:Calmodulin-Binding Proteins; D002413:Cations, Divalent; D007477:Ions; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D010455:Peptides; D007811:Lanthanum; C071124:polistes mastoparan