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JKMRS Volume 19, No 2, pp 74-82;Structural characterization of...
2015년 10월 13일 / 조회수: 601

Structural characterization of calmodulin like domain of ryanodine receptor type 1

 

 

Yonghyun Song1, Sunmi Kang2†, and Sunghyouk Park2*

 

 

1 Department of Biochemistry, Inha University Hospital, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon, Korea

2 College of Pharmacy, Natural Product Research Institute, Seoul National University, San 56-1 Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, 151-742 Seoul, Korea

 

 

 

 

Received Aug 4, 2015; Revised Sep 17, 2015; Accepted Sep 25, 2015

 


Abstract Ryanodine receptor (RyR) is one of the two major Ca2+ channels in membranes of intracellular Ca2+ stores and is found in sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), endoplasmic reticulum (ER). RyR1 is also the major calmodulin-binding protein of sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes.

Residues 4064-4210 in the RyR1 polypeptide chain has similar primary sequence with calmodulin (CaM) and was designated as CaM-like domain (CaMLD). When expressed as a recombinant peptide, CaMLD showed several CaM-like properties in previous studies. Still, previous studies of CaMLD were focused on protein-protein interactions rather than its own properties.

Here, we studied the expression of CaMLD and its sub-domains corresponding to each lobe of CaM in Escherichia coli. CaMLD could be obtained only as inclusion body, and it was refolded using urea solubilization followed by dialysis. Using spectroscopic approaches, such as NMR, circular dichroism, and gel filtration experiment, we found that the refolded CaMLD exists as nonspecific aggregate, even though it has alpha helical secondary structure. In comparison, the first half of CaMLD (R4061-4141) could be obtained as natively soluble protein with thioredoxin fusion. After the removal of the fusion tag, it exhibited folded and helical properties as shown by NMR and circular dichroism experiments. Its oligomeric status was different from CaMLD, existing as dimeric form in solution. However, the second half of the protein could not be obtained as soluble protein regardless of fusion tag. Based on these results, we believe that CaMLD, although similar to CaM in sequence, has quite different physicochemical properties and that the second half of the protein renders it the aggregative properties.

 

Keywords RyRs, Calmodulin-like domain, secondary structure

 

 

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