Journal
JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE SCIENCE
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 404-410Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/psc.1131
Keywords
calpain; calpastatin; calcium-binding; inhibitor; conformational change; folding; intrinsically unstructured proteins; order-disorder transition; NMR spectroscopy
Funding
- Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA) [K68285, F68326]
- Hungarian [GVOP-3.2.1.-2004-04-0210/3.0]
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Calpastatin, the endogenous inhibitor of calpain, a cysteine protease in eukaryotic cells, is an intrinsically unstructured protein, which upon binding to the enzyme goes through a conformational change. Peptides calpA (SGKSGMDAALDDLIDTLGG) and calpC (SKPIGPDDAIDALSSDFTS), corresponding to the two conserved subdomains of calpastatin, are known to activate calpain and increase the Ca2+ sensitivity of the enzyme. Using solution NMR spectroscopy, here we show that calpA and calpC are disordered in water but assume an alpha-helical conformation in 50% CD3OH. The position and length of the helices are in agreement with those described in the literature for the bound state of the corresponding segments of calpastatin suggesting that the latter might be structurally primed for the interaction with its target. According to our data, the presence of Ca2+ induces a backbone rearrangement in the peptides, an effect that may contribute to setting the fine conformational balance required for the interaction of the peptides with calpain. Copyright (C) 2009 European Pepticle Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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