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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 296, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA120.016012
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
- European ERDF Funds (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, EU) [RTI2018-097991-B-I00]
- National Institutes of Health of USA [HL127691, HL138007]
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The conserved C-terminal end segment of troponin I (TnI) regulates muscle relaxation by reducing the Ca2+-sensitivity of myofibrils and promoting relaxation without decreasing force production. The isolated C-terminal 27 amino acid peptide from human cardiac TnI (HcTnI-C27) interacts with tropomyosin and can potentially improve diastolic function of the heart, making it a promising therapeutic approach.
The conserved C-terminal end segment of troponin I (TnI) plays a critical role in regulating muscle relaxation. This function is retained in the isolated C-terminal 27 amino acid peptide (residues 184-210) of human cardiac TnI (HcTnI-C27): When added to skinned muscle fibers, HcTnI-C27 reduces the Ca2+-sensitivity of activated myofibrils and facilitates relaxation without decreasing the maximum force production. However, the underlying mechanism of HcTnI-C27 function is unknown. We studied the conformational preferences of HcTnI-C27 and a myopathic mutant, Arg192His, (HcTnI-C27-H). Both peptides were mainly disordered in aqueous solution with a nascent helix involving residues from Trp191 to Ile195, as shown by NMR analysis and molecular dynamics simulations. The population of nascent helix was smaller in HcTnI-C27-H than in HcTnI-C27, as shown by circular dichroism (CD) titrations. Fluorescence and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) showed that both peptides bound tropomyosin (alpha Tm), with a detectably higher affinity (similar to 10 mu M) of HcTnI-C27 than that of HcTnI-C27-H (similar to 15 mu M), consistent with an impaired Ca2+-desensitization effect of the mutant peptide on skinned muscle strips. Upon binding to aTm, HcTnI-C27 acquired a weakly stable helix-like conformation involving residues near Trp191, as shown by transferred nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy and hydrogen/deuterium exchange experiments. With the potent Ca2+-desensitization effect of HcTnI-C27 on skinned cardiac muscle from a mouse model of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the data support that the C-terminal end domain of TnI can function as an isolated peptide with the intrinsic capacity of binding tropomyosin, providing a promising therapeutic approach to selectively improve diastolic function of the heart.
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