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Effects of myosin light chain kinase and peptides on Ca$^2+$ exchange with the N- and C-terminal Ca$^2+$ binding sites of calmodulin.

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J. Biol. Chem., 271 (2): 761--767 (January 1996)

Abstract

Myosin light chain kinase and peptides from the calmodulin (CaM) binding domains of myosin light chain kinase (RS-20, M-13), CaM kinase II, and the myristoylated alanine-rich protein kinase C substrate protein slowed Ca$^2+$ dissociation from CaM's N-terminal sites from 405 +/- 75/s to 1.8-2.9/s and from CaM's C-terminal sites from 2.4 +/- 0.2/s to 0.1-0.4/s at 10 degrees C. Since Ca$^2+$ dissociates 5-29 times faster from the N-terminal in these CaM.peptide complexes and both lobes are required for activation, Ca$^2+$ dissociation from the N-terminal would control target protein inactivation. Ca$^2+$ binds 70 times faster to the N-terminal (1.6 x 10(8) M-1 s-1) than the C-terminal sites (2.3 x 10(6) M-1 s-1). In a 0.6-ms half-width Ca$^2+$ transient, Ca$^2+$ occupied > 70\% of the N-terminal but only 20\% of the C-terminal sites. RS-20 produced a 9-fold and CaM kinase II a 6.3-fold increase in C-terminal Ca$^2+$ affinity, suggesting that some target proteins may be bound to the C-terminal at resting Ca$^2+$. When this is the case, Ca$^2+$ exchange with the faster N-terminal sites may regulate CaM's activation and inactivation of these target proteins during a Ca$^2+$ transient.

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