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Volume 271, Number 47, Issue of November 22, 1996 pp. 30242-30248
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Heat Treatment Could Affect the Biochemical Properties of Caldesmon

(Received for publication, May 21, 1996, and in revised form, August 23, 1996)

From the Muscle Research Group, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02114

Smooth muscle caldesmon (CaD) exhibits apparent heat stability. A widely used purification procedure of CaD involves extensive heat treatment (Bretscher, A. (1984) J. Biol. Chem. 259, 12873-12880). CaD thus purified co-sediments with actin, inhibits actomyosin ATPase activity, and interacts with Ca²⁺/calmodulin, similarly to the unheated protein. On the other hand, heat-treated CaD binds to actin filaments in a tether-like fashion, whereas lengthwise binding dominates in vivo (Mabuchi, K., Lin, J. J.-C., and Wang, C.-L. A. (1993) J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 14, 54-64), suggesting that differences do exist between heat-purified CaD and the native protein. We have isolated, without heat treatment, full-length recombinant chicken gizzard CaD overexpressed in insect cells (High-Five^TM) using a baculovirus expression system. We found that such unheated CaD interacts with calmodulin 10 times stronger than does the heated CaD; its inhibitory action on actomyosin ATPase is reversed by a much lesser amount of calmodulin. Moreover, electron microscopic examination indicated that actin binding at the N-terminal region is more frequent in the unheated CaD, resulting in more lengthwise binding. These findings point to the fact that CaD is not entirely heat-stable; the C-terminal CaM-binding regions and the N-terminal actin-binding region are possibly affected by heat treatment.

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