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BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
卷 478, 期 3, 页码 487-491出版社
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BCJ20200818
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- Ministry for Education, University and Research [PRIN 2017 201744NR8S]
The study investigated the interaction between calmodulin and peptides mimicking different structural regions of the cardiac ryanodine receptor at varying calcium concentrations. It identified the specific CaM domains that bind to the CaM-binding domain in RyR2, showing that the interaction occurs under Ca2+-saturating conditions. This methodology may have broad applicability to the study of Ca2+ signaling and diseases associated with mutations in CaM-encoding genes.
In a recent issue of Biochemical Journal, Brohus et al. (Biochem. J.476, 193-209) investigated the interaction between the ubiquitous intracellular Ca2+-sensor calmodulin (CaM) and peptides that mimic different structural regions of the cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) at different Ca2+ concentrations. For the purpose, a novel bidimensional titration assay based on changes in fluorescence anisotropy was designed. The study identified the CaM domains that selectively bind to a specific CaM-binding domain in RyR2 and demonstrated that the interaction occurs essentially under Ca2+-saturating conditions. This study provides an elegant and experimentally accessible framework for detailed molecular investigations of the emerging life-threatening arrhythmia diseases associated with mutations in the genes encoding CaM. Furthermore, by allowing the measurement of the equilibrium dissociation constant in a protein-protein complex as a function of [Ca2+], the methodology presented by Brohus et al. may have broad applicability to the study of Ca2+ signalling.
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