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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 276, 期 36, 页码 34318-34322出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M103255200
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL64187] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAMS NIH HHS [AR41637] Funding Source: Medline
We expressed the small subunit of smooth muscle myosin light chain phosphatase (MPs) in Escherichia coli, and have studied its molecular properties as well as its interaction with the targeting subunit (MPt). MPs (M-r = 18,500) has an anomalously low electrophoretic mobility, running with an apparent M-r of similar to 21,000 in sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis. CD spectroscopy shows that it is similar to 45% alpha -helix and undergoes a cooperative temperature-induced unfolding with a transition midpoint of 73 degreesC. Limited proteolysis rapidly degrades MPs to a stable G-terminal fragment (M-r = 10,000) that retains most of the helical content. Rotary shadowing electron microscopy reveals that it is an elongated protein with two domains. Sedimentation velocity measurements show that recombinant MPt (M-r = 107,000), intact MPs, and the 10-kDa. MPs fragment are all dimeric, and that MPs and MPt form a complex with a molar mass consistent with a 1:1 heterodimer. Sequence analysis predicts that regions in the C-terminal portions of both MPs and MPt have high probabilities for coiled coil formation. A synthetic peptide from a region of MPs encompassing, residues 77-116 was found to be 100% alpha -helical, dimeric, and formed a complex with MPt with a molecular mass corresponding to a heterodimer. Based on these results, we propose that MPs is an elongated molecule with an N-terminal head and a C-terminal stalk domain. It dimerizes via a coiled coil interaction in the stalk domain, and interacts with MPt via heterodimeric coiled coil formation. Since other proteins with known regulatory function toward MP also have predicted coiled coil regions, our results suggest that these regulatory proteins target MP via the same coiled coil strand exchange mechanism with MPt.
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