Protein Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 1, 59-66,
January 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
Tryptophan fluorescence of calmodulin binding domain peptides interacting with calmodulin containing unnatural methionine analogues
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary,2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, T2N 1N4, Canada
The interactions between the abundant methionine residues of the calcium regulatory protein calmodulin (CaM) and several of its binding targets were probed using fluorescence spectroscopy. Tryptophan steady-state fluorescence from peptides encompassing the CaM-binding domains of the target proteins myosin light chain kinase (MLCK), cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) and caldesmon site A and B (CaD A, CaD B), and the model peptide melittin showed Ca2+-dependent blue-shifts in their maximum emission wavelength when complexed with wild-type CaM. Blue-shifts were also observed for complexes in which the CaM methionine residues were replaced by selenomethionine, norleucine and ethionine, and when a quadruple methionine to leucine C-terminal mutant of CaM was studied. Quenching of the tryptophan fluorescence intensity was observed with selenomethionine, but not with norleucine or ethionine substituted protein. Fluorescence quenching studies with added potassium iodide (KI) demonstrate that the non-native proteins limit the solvent accessibility of the Trp in the MLCK peptide to levels close to that of the wild-type CaM–MLCK interaction. Our results show that the methionine residues from CaM are highly sensitive to the target peptide in question, confirming the importance of their role in binding interactions. In addition, we provide evidence that the nature of binding in the CaM–CaD B complex is unique compared with the other complexes studied, as the Trp residue of this peptide remains partially solvent exposed upon binding to CaM.
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