The cardiac Ca-sensitive regulatory switch, a system in dynamic equilibrium

Details The cardiac Ca-sensitive regulatory switch, a system in dynamic equilibrium The cardiac Ca-sensitive regulatory switch, a system in dynamic equilibrium

2008-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/0805.3544v2

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

49 pages, 9 figures, 2 supplemental figures

Scientific paper

10.1529/biophysj.108.131318

The Ca-sensitive regulatory switch of cardiac muscle is a paradigmatic example of protein assemblies that communicate ligand binding through allosteric change. The switch is a dimeric complex of troponin C (TnC), an allosteric sensor for Ca, and troponin I (TnI), an allosteric reporter. Time-resolved equilibrium FRET measurements suggest that the switch activates in two steps: a TnI-independent Ca-priming step followed by TnI-dependent opening. To resolve the mechanistic role of TnI in activation we performed stopped-flow FRET measurements of activation following rapid addition of a lacking component (Ca or TnI) and deactivation following rapid chelation of Ca. The time-resolved measurements, stopped-flow measurements, and Ca-titration measurements were globally analyzed in terms of a new quantitative dynamic model of TnC-TnI allostery. The analysis provided a mesoscopic parameterization of distance changes, free energy changes, and transition rates among the accessible coarse-grained states of the system. The results reveal (i) the Ca-induced priming step, which precedes opening, is the rate limiting step in activation, (ii) closing is the rate limiting step in deactivation, (iii) TnI induces opening, (iv) an incompletely deactivated population when regulatory Ca is not bound, which generates an accessory pathway of activation, and (v) incomplete activation by Ca--when regulatory Ca is bound, a 3:2 mixture of dynamically inter-converting open (active) and primed-closed (partially active) conformers is observed (15 C). Temperature-dependent stopped-flow FRET experiments provide a near complete thermo-kinetic parametrization of opening.

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