Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 64, Issue -, Pages 453-457Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2013.12.036
Keywords
Calmodulin; Calcium; Calcineurin
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21275032]
- Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project [B109]
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Calcineurin (CN) is a Ca2+/CaM-dependent Ser/Thr protein phosphatase that plays a critical role in coupling Ca2+ signals to a cellular response. Various methods have been applied to explore CN activation. A widely accepted model involves CaM binding to the CaM-binding domain (CN 389-413), inducing displacement of the CN autoinhibitory peptide (CN 467-486) from the active site. However, almost the entire regulatory region (CN 374-521), except the autoinhibitow peptide, is not visible in the electron density map of the reported structures. In the present study, we determined the overall secondary structure of CN in the presence or absence of Ca2+/CaM using FT-IR, and the Ca2+/CaM-induced structural dynamics and conformational changes were monitored by hydrogen-deuterium exchange experiments. The results revealed that the regulatory domain possessed some intrinsic structure. The binding of Ca2+ and subsequent binding of CaM generated a sequential folding of CN, transforming it into a more constrained, less flexible conformation. Crown Copyright (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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