calmodulin and phosphorylase interaction by james proestos biochemistry and biophysics department...
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Calmodulin and Phosphorylase Interaction
By James Proestos Biochemistry and Biophysics
DepartmentDr. Sonia Anderson’s Lab
Agriculture and Life Science Building
Calcium
• Activator of many cellular processes (cell signaling)
– Triggers muscle proteins to contract
– Activates many enzymes
Calmodulin Information
• Is found in all animal and plant tissues
• Binding of calcium controls its ability to bind to a protein to regulate the target protein’s activity.
Glycogen Phosphorylase Information
• Found in fast twitch muscle tissue
• It catalyzes the breakdown of glycogen
• Controlled by phosphorylation/dephosphorylation
The Interaction of Proteins in Glycogen Cascade
• Phosphorylase Kinase becomes active by calcium binding to the intrinsic calmodulin
• The phosphorylase kinase interacts with the glycogen phosphorylase
• It is not known if the calmodulin can readily bind with glycogen phosphorylase in this interaction
• Phosphorylase binds to calmodulin
Hypothesis• Malencik and Anderson proposed
that calmodulin binding regions are often sites of regulation by serine-threonine phosphorylation/dephosphorylation
• Phosphorylase binds to calmodulin
Hypothesis• Malencik and Anderson proposed
that calmodulin binding regions are often sites of regulation by serine-threonine phosphorylation/dephosphorylation
Question• Is the calmodulin binding region of
phosphorylase b the same as the phosphorylation site and how does phosphorylation affect this binding to calmodulin?
Purification of Phosphorylase B
• Grind rabbit muscle
• Spin in a centrifuge
• Remove the pellet
• Ammonium sulfate precipitation and crystallize
• Repeat crystallization several times
Purification of Calmodulin
• Grind bovine brain
• Spin in centrifuge and remove pellet
• Pass the supernatant through several columns
Experimental Plan
• Cleave the glycogen phosphorylase protein into peptides
• Isolate peptides of interest by conventional column chromatography
• Determine the binding of the peptides using a calmodulin affinity column
• Identify the peptide(s) from the calmodulin affinity column by mass spectrometry and/or amino acid analysis
• Phosphorylate the peptide(s) and compare its affinity for calmodulin to that of the unphosphorylated peptide (by fluorescence).
Cleavage of Phosphorylase B
1 84114
CNBR RXN
HydroxylamineSubtilisin
1 14 264
265 841
1 14 134
135 259
260 497
498 841
1
242
442
91
350
604
14
351 428
Cleavage of Phosphorylase B
Cyanogen bromide is our tool to cleave at methionine residues
The resulting peptides will be the focus of the binding of calmodulin
Cleavage of Phosphorylase BNum From-To MW pI 1 1- 91 11054.63 10.17 Residue that will be observed, serine-14 is site of phosphorylation 2 92- 99 921.07 11.15 3 100-119 2184.45 2.74 4 120-147 2940.24 3.35 5 148-176 3229.75 8.80 6 177-224 5662.32 4.95 7 225-241 1938.17 6.81 8 242-350 12565.35 8.51 9 351-428 9322.85 7.36 10 429-441 1446.71 7.02 11 442-604 19129.32 9.64 12 605-615 1102.30 9.80 13 616-618 349.47 10.20 14 619-679 6480.42 4.59 15 680-682 425.57 9.75 16 683-692 991.20 6.96 17 693-699 735.79 2.91 18 700-713 1591.74 2.87 19 714-764 6134.86 4.45 20 765-766 263.38 6.96 21 767-800 4333.90 8.61 22 801-840 4545.12 10.20
Separation of Glycogen Phosphorylase Peptides
• Gel filtration– Separation based on size
• Cation exchange– Separation based on charge (pI >7)
• High Performance Liquid Chromatography– Separation based on hydrophobicity
• Analyze peptides– Peptide 1-91– Synthetic peptide 6-25– Calmodulin binding peptide
Cation Exchange
Tube Number
0 50 100 150 200
Absorbance 280 nm
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
CNBr separation of Peptides on SP-Sephadex
Peptide 351-428
Peptide 1-91
Peptide 242-350 (unproven)
Calmodulin/Phosphorylase B Interaction
boundcalmodulin
gel
peptides that do not
bind to calmodulin
Phosphorylase peptides
Determine affinity of
calmodulin-peptide complex
Phosphorylate peptides and
recheck affinity
Isolated peptides
A)Peptide(1-91)B)Peptide(6-25)C)CaM Binding Peptide
Analysis of Calmodulin/Glycogen
Phosphorylase Interaction
Analysis of Phosphorylation Interaction
Peptide -P +P
Intact phosphorylase +++ ND
CNBr digest (mixture) +++ +
Peptide 351-408 + +
Peptide 1-91 ++++ ++
Synthetic peptide (6-25) none none
Glutathione (control) none none
Future Work• Determine and verify phosphorylation and stoichiometry of the various peptides by the use of ATP32
• Determine the affinity of the peptides quantitatively by the use of fluorescence titration
• Complete sequence and/or mass spectroscopy information on the petide/s that bind to the solid support calmodulin column and, if enough material is isolated, to perform calmodulin binding
• Redetermine the binding of peptide 6-25 utilizing different approaches, if necessary, to verify that it does not bind to calmodulin
• Subfragment peptide 1-91 and redetermine its binding to calmodulin
Acknowledgements
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dr. Sonia Anderson
Dean Malencik
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Kevin Ahern