title: Intermolecular interactions in the mechanism of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA1): evidence for a triprotomer.
abstract: Native membrane sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+)-ATPase isolated from skeletal muscle (SERCA1) exhibits oligomeric kinetic behavior [Mahaney, J. E., Thomas, D. D., and Froehlich, J. P. (2004) Biochemistry 43, 4400-4416]. In the present study we used quenched-flow mixing, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and chemical cross-linking to probe for intermolecular interactions at physiological (0.1 M) and high (0.4 M) KCl. Exposure of SR membranes to water- and lipid-soluble cross-linking reagents revealed a mixture of SERCA1 oligomeric species consisting mainly of dimers and trimers. Titration of iodoacetamide spin-labeled SERCA1 with AMPPCP in the presence of 10 microM Ca(2+) and 0.1 M KCl revealed high- (K(D) = 45 microM) and low-affinity (K(D) = 315 microM) nucleotide binding sites in a 2:1 ratio, respectively. Raising the [KCl] to 0.4 M increased the fraction of weak binding sites and lowered the K(D) of the high-affinity component (20 microM). Phosphorylation by 10 microM ATP at 21 degrees C and 0.1 M KCl produced an early burst of P(i) production without a corresponding decline in the steady-state phosphoenzyme (EP) level. The steady-state EP level was twice as large as the P(i) burst and received equal contributions from E1P and E2P. Chasing the phosphoenzyme at 0.4 M KCl and 2 degrees C with ADP revealed a biphasic time course of E1P formation with a slow phase that matched the kinetics of the transient EPR signal from the spin-labeled Ca(2+)-ATPase. The absence of a fast component in the EPR signal excludes E1P as its source. Instead, it arises from a slow, KCl-dependent transformation at the start of the cycle which controls the formation of downstream intermediates with an increased mole fraction of rotationally restricted probes. We modeled this behavior with a SERCA1 trimer in which the formation of E1P/E2/E2P from E1ATP/E2P/E1P results from concerted transformations in the subunits coupling phosphorylation (E1ATP --> E1P + ADP) to dephosphorylation (E2P --> E2 + P(i)) and the conversion of E1P to E2P.
authors.affiliation: Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA.
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Mahaney
authors.forename: David D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Iain K
authors.initials: IK
authors.lastname: Farrance
authors.forename: Jeffrey P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Froehlich
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002384:Catalysis; D019281:Dimerization; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy; D007700:Kinetics; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011189:Potassium Chloride / Q000737:chemistry; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011817:Rabbits; D012519:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism; D053498:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases / Q000737:chemistry*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D011189:Potassium Chloride; D053498:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases