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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2012

Structural dynamics of C-domain of cardiac troponin I protein in reconstituted thin filament.

Zhiqun Zhou, King-Lun Li, Daniel Rieck, Yexin Ouyang, Murali Chandra, Wen-Ji Dong

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhiqun ZhouDepartment of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy Pharmacology and Physiology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA.
King-Lun Li
Daniel Rieck
Yexin Ouyang
Murali Chandra
Wen-Ji Dong
Washington State University · US

Funding

TRAINING IN BIOTECHNOLOGY: EMPHASIS ON PROTEIN CHEMISTRYT32GM008336 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CALL, DOUGLAS R. · 1989 to 2023
$8.9M
Kinetics of Cardiac Myofilament ActivationR01HL080186 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI DONG, WEN-JI · 2005 to 2013
$3.4M
Mechanistic Understanding of Troponin T Role in Cardiac Thin Filament ActivationR01HL075643 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CHANDRA, MURALI · 2004 to 2012
$2.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL075643NHLBI NIH HHS HL80186NHLBI NIH HHS HL80186-5S1NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL075643NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL080186NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008336
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The regulatory function of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) involves three important contiguous regions within its C-domain: the inhibitory region (IR), the regulatory region (RR), and the mobile domain (MD). Within these regions, the dynamics of regional structure and kinetics of transitions in dynamic state are believed to facilitate regulatory signaling. This study was designed to use fluorescence anisotropy techniques to acquire steady-state and kinetic information on the dynamic state of the C-domain of cTnI in the reconstituted thin filament. A series of single cysteine cTnI mutants was generated, labeled with the fluorophore tetramethylrhodamine, and subjected to various anisotropy experiments at the thin filament level. The structure of the IR was found to be less dynamic than that of the RR and the MD, and Ca(2+) binding induced minimal changes in IR dynamics: the flexibility of the RR decreased, whereas the MD became more flexible. Anisotropy stopped-flow experiments showed that the kinetics describing the transition of the MD and RR from the Ca(2+)-bound to the Ca(2+)-free dynamic states were significantly faster (53.2-116.8 s(-1)) than that of the IR (14.1 s(-1)). Our results support the fly casting mechanism, implying that an unstructured MD with rapid dynamics and kinetics plays a critical role to initiate relaxation upon Ca(2+) dissociation by rapidly interacting with actin to promote the dissociation of the RR from the N-domain of cTnC. In contrast, the IR responds to Ca(2+) signals with slow structural dynamics and transition kinetics. The collective findings suggested a fourth state of activation.

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AnimalsCalciumCytoskeletonFluorescence PolarizationKineticsProtein Structure, TertiaryRatsTroponin ICalciumTroponin I

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PMID22207765
PMCPMC3293551
OpenAlexW2095438534

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