Photocrosslinking of calmodulin and/or actin to chicken gizzard caldesmon |
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Authors: | C L Wang |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Muscle Research, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, MA 02114. |
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Abstract: | The two sulfhydryl groups of chicken gizzard caldesmon were specifically labeled with a photoreactive crosslinker, benzophenone-maleimide, to study its interactions with calmodulin and/or actin. When incubated with F-actin caldesmon crosslinks to a single actin monomer; it can, however, crosslink to up to two calmodulin molecules in the presence, but not in the absence, of Ca2+. Thus caldesmon may have two calmodulin-binding sites, each containing, or being near, one of the two thiol residues. One of these two sites may also be adjacent to the actin-binding site. A calmodulin-binding fragment of caldesmon resulting from cyanogen bromide digestion crosslinks to a single calmodulin molecule, also in a Ca2+-dependent manner. Crosslinking of calmodulin to caldesmon does not prevent the latter from binding F-actin, suggesting that calmodulin and actin do not compete with each other for the same binding site(s) on the caldesmon molecule. |
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