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. 1995 Apr;4(4):671–680. doi: 10.1002/pro.5560040407

An NMR and spin label study of the effects of binding calcium and troponin I inhibitory peptide to cardiac troponin C.

J W Howarth 1, G A Krudy 1, X Lin 1, J A Putkey 1, P R Rosevear 1
PMCID: PMC2143097  PMID: 7613465

Abstract

The paramagnetic relaxation reagent, 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl-1-oxy (HyTEMPO), was used to probe the surface exposure of methionine residues of recombinant cardiac troponin C (cTnC) in the absence and presence of Ca2+ at the regulatory site (site II), as well as in the presence of the troponin I inhibitory peptide (cTnIp). Methyl resonances of the 10 Met residues of cTnC were chosen as spectral probes because they are thought to play a role in both formation of the N-terminal hydrophobic pocket and in the binding of cTnIp. Proton longitudinal relaxation rates (R1's) of the [13C-methyl] groups in [13C-methyl]Met-labeled cTnC(C35S) were determined using a T1 two-dimensional heteronuclear single- and multiple-quantum coherence pulse sequence. Solvent-exposed Met residues exhibit increased relaxation rates from the paramagnetic effect of HyTEMPO. Relaxation rates in 2Ca(2+)-loaded and Ca(2+)-saturated cTnC, both in the presence and absence of HyTEMPO, permitted the topological mapping of the conformational changes induced by the binding of Ca2+ to site II, the site responsible for triggering muscle contraction. Calcium binding at site II resulted in an increased exposure of Met residues 45 and 81 to the soluble spin label HyTEMPO. This result is consistent with an opening of the hydrophobic pocket in the N-terminal domain of cTnC upon binding Ca2+ at site II. The binding of the inhibitory peptide cTnIp, corresponding to Asn 129 through Ile 149 of cTnI, to both 2Ca(2+)-loaded and Ca(2+)-saturated cTnC was shown to protect Met residues 120 and 157 from HyTEMPO as determined by a decrease in their measured R1 values. These results suggest that in both the 2Ca(2+)-loaded and Ca(2+)-saturated forms of cTnC, cTnIp binds primarily to the C-terminal domain of cTnC.

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