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Doctoral Thesis
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/T.46.2001.tde-01102006-180039
Document
Author
Full name
Deodoro Camargo Silva Gonçalves de Oliveira
E-mail
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Paulo, 2001
Supervisor
Committee
Reinach, Fernando de Castro (President)
Araújo, Pedro Soares de
Baptista, Mauricio da Silva
Larson, Maria Luisa Paço
Schenkman, Sergio
Title in Portuguese
Construção e análise de mutantes fluorescentes da troponina I
Keywords in Portuguese
Estrutura e função de proteínas
Fuorescência
Mutação sítio-dirigida
Regulação da contração muscular
Troponina
Abstract in Portuguese
A troponina (Tn) regula a contração do músculo estriado esquelético de vertebrados. Ela é composta de três subunidades: troponina I (TnI), troponina C (TnC) e troponina T (TnT). A TnI tem a função inibitória que é neutralizada pela ligação de Ca2+ nos sítios regulatórios do N-domínio da TnC, e a TnT posiciona o complexo no filamento fino. Para monitorar o sinal do Ca2+ sendo transmitido da TnC para a TnI as propriedades espectrais únicas do 5-hidroxitriptofano (5HW) foram utilizadas. O 5HW foi incorporado em mutantes pontuais de TnI com um único códon para triptofano. Foram identificadas duas sondas espectrais intrínsecas na TnI capazes de detectar a ligação de Ca2+ na Tn: as TnIs com 5HW nas posições 100 e 121. Complexos troponina reconstituídos com estes mutantes fluorescentes de TnI, Tn-TnIF100HW e Tn-TnIM121HW, apresentaram respectivamente 12 e 70 % de aumento na intensidade do espectro de emissão devido à ligação de Ca2+ na TnC. Nos complexos binários (TnC-TnI) as TnIs com 5HW nas posições 106 e 121 também captam a ligação do Ca2+ na TnC. A análise da fluorescência destas sondas demonstrou que: 1) as regiões da TnI que respondem ao N-domínio regulatório da TnC ocupado com Ca2+ são a região inibitória da TnI, resíduos 96 até 116, e a região vizinha que inclui a posição 121 da TnI; 2) mutações pontuais e a incorporação de 5HW na TnI podem afetar tanto a afinidade como a cooperatividade da ligação de Ca2+ na TnC, confirmando o papel da TnI em modular a afinidade da TnC por Ca2+; 3) as constantes de dissociação de Ca2+ surpreendentemente altas, Kd ~ 10-8 M, calculadas a partir dos sinais das sondas na região inibitória da TnI, sugerem a possibilidade de que os sítios do domínio N-terminal da TnC sejam os sítios de ligação de Ca2+ de maior afinidade no complexo troponina.
Title in English
Construction and analysis of fluorescent mutants of troponin I
Keywords in English
Fluorescence
Protein structure and function
Regulation of muscle contraction
Site-directed mutagenesis
Troponin
Abstract in English
Vertebrate striated muscle contraction is regulated by troponin (Tn). Tn is composed of three subunits: troponin I (TnI), troponin C (TnC) and troponin T (TnT). TnI has an inhibitory role that is neutralized by calcium binding to the regulatory sites in the N-domain of TnC, and TnT positions the troponin complex on the thin filament. In order to follow the Ca2+ induced conformational change that is transmitted from TnC to TnI, the unique spectral properties of 5-hydroxytryptophan (5HW) incorporated as point-mutants of TnI were used. It was possible to identify two new TnI intrinsic spectral probes sensitive to Ca2+ binding to Tn: TnI with single 5HW at positions 100 and 121. Trimeric troponin complexes reconstituted with two fluorescent mutants of TnI, Tn-TnIF100HW and Tn-TnIM121HW, showed respectively 12 and 70 % increase in the emission spectra when Ca2+ bound to TnC. In the binary complexes (TnC-TnI) two TnIs with 5HW at positions 106 and 121 were also sensitive to Ca2+ binding to TnC. Fluorescence analysis of these probes showed: 1) the regions in TnI that respond to Ca2+ binding to the regulatory N-domain of TnC are the inhibitory region of TnI (residues 96 to 116), and a neighbor region that includes position 121; 2) point mutations and incorporation of 5HW in TnI can affect both the affinity and the cooperativity of Ca2+ binding to TnC, confirming the role of TnI as a modulator of the Ca2+ affinity of TnC; 3) the high dissociation constant for sites in the N-terminal domain of TnC (Kd ~ 10-8 M), derived from data using probes in the inhibitory region of TnI suggested the possibility that these sites are the high affinity Ca2+ binding sites in the troponin complex.
 
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