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Detecting the active conformation of calpain with calpastatin-based reagents.


ABSTRACT: The specific, calcium-dependent, high affinity interaction between calpain and its endogenous inhibitor calpastatin was exploited to selectively detect the calcium-bound, catalytically competent, conformation of calpain in vitro. Modification of calpastatin domain-1 (Val(114)-Ser(270)) or its N-terminal fragment (Val(114)-Pro(202)), at selected unique cysteine residues with maleimide-AlexaFluor546 did not compromise calpastatin function (inhibition of calpain) or its binding with calpain. Ca(2+)-dependent binding between catalytically dead calpain-2 (Cys(105)Ala) fused with eGFP and these fluorigenic calpastatin peptides generates fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET). The FRET signal documents proximity of calpain-2, C-terminally linked fluorophore to specific sites within calpastatin when the proteins form a complex. These results provide important insights into the calcium-dependent interaction between calpain and calpastatin and for holo-calpain-2 in solution experimentally validate some key features of their predicted interactions. These data also provide proof of concept that the calpastatin-based reagents may be useful to selectively detect the active conformation of calpain.

SUBMITTER: Croall DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2646846 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Detecting the active conformation of calpain with calpastatin-based reagents.

Croall Dorothy E DE   Vanhooser Lisa M LM   Cashon Robert E RE  

Biochimica et biophysica acta 20080828 11


The specific, calcium-dependent, high affinity interaction between calpain and its endogenous inhibitor calpastatin was exploited to selectively detect the calcium-bound, catalytically competent, conformation of calpain in vitro. Modification of calpastatin domain-1 (Val(114)-Ser(270)) or its N-terminal fragment (Val(114)-Pro(202)), at selected unique cysteine residues with maleimide-AlexaFluor546 did not compromise calpastatin function (inhibition of calpain) or its binding with calpain. Ca(2+)  ...[more]

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