Role of essential light chain EF hand domains in calcium binding and regulation of scallop myosin.

AUTOR(ES)

Fromherz, S

RESUMO

The specific Ca2+ binding site that triggers contraction of molluscan muscle requires the presence of an essential light chain (ELC) from a Ca2+ binding myosin. Of the four EF hand-like domains in molluscan ELCs, only domain III has an amino acid sequence predicted to be capable of binding Ca2+. In this report, we have used mutant ELCs to locate the Ca2+ binding site in scallop myosin and to probe the role of the ELC in regulation. Point mutations in domain III of scallop ELC have no effect on Ca2+ binding. Interestingly, scallop and rat cardiac ELC chimeras support Ca2+ binding only if domain I is scallop. These results are nevertheless in agreement with structural studies on a proteolytic fragment of scallop myosin, the regulatory domain. Furthermore, Ca2+ sensitivity of the scallop myosin ATPase requires scallop ELC domain I: ELCs containing cardiac domain I convert scallop myosin to an unregulated molecule whose activity is no longer repressed in the absence of Ca2+. Despite its unusual EF hand domain sequence, our data indicate that the unique and required contribution of molluscan ELCs to Ca2+ binding and regulation of molluscan myosins resides exclusively in domain I.

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