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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 262, Issue 20, 9454-9462, Jul, 1987

Characterization of the calmodulin-binding sites of muscle phosphofructokinase and comparison with known calmodulin-binding domains

B Buschmeier, HE Meyer and GW Mayr

Calmodulin has been shown to interact with high affinity with muscle phosphofructokinase (Mayr, G. W. (1984) Eur. J. Biochem. 143, 513-520, 521-529). In this study, direct binding measurements indicated that each of the two subunits of dimeric phosphofructokinase bound two calmodulins with Kd values of about 3 nM and 1 microM, respectively, in a strictly Ca2+-dependent way. To get more detailed information about this interaction, calmodulin-binding fragments were isolated from a CNBr digest of phosphofructokinase using affinity chromatography on calmodulin-agarose. Two fragments, M11 (Mr 3080) and M22 (Mr 8060), formed a 1:1 stoichiometric complex with Ca2+-calmodulin. The amino acid sequences of these fragments were determined, and their positions in the three-dimensional structure-model of phosphofructokinase are proposed. Fragment M11, which binds to calmodulin with the higher affinity (Kd 11.4 nM), is located in a region of the subunit where two dimers have been proposed to make contacts if associating to active tetrameric enzyme. A stabilization of the dimeric form of the enzyme by binding of calmodulin supports this location of M11. The weaker binding fragment M22 (Kd 198 nM) corresponds to the C-terminal part of the polypeptide and contains the site which is phosphorylated by cAMP- dependent protein kinase. Both fragments have structural properties in common with the isolated calmodulin-binding domains of myosin light chain kinase: two cationic segments rich in hydrophobic residues, one constantly possessing a tryptophan, and the other exhibiting an amino acid sequence resembling sites phosphorylated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase.
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