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FRET-FCS detection of intralobe dynamics in calmodulin.


ABSTRACT: Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) can be coupled with Fo?rster resonance energy transfer (FRET) to detect intramolecular dynamics of proteins on the microsecond time scale. Here we describe application of FRET-FCS to detect fluctuations within the N-terminal and C-terminal domains of the Ca(2+)-signaling protein calmodulin. Intramolecular fluctuations were resolved by global fitting of the two fluorescence autocorrelation functions (green-green and red-red) together with the two cross-correlation functions (green-red and red-green). To match the Fo?rster radius for FRET to the dimensions of the N-terminal and C-terminal domains, a near-infrared acceptor fluorophore (Atto 740) was coupled with a green-emitting donor (Alexa Fluor 488). Fluctuations were detected in both domains on the time scale of 30 to 40 ?s. In the N-terminal domain, the amplitude of the fluctuations was dependent on occupancy of Ca(2+) binding sites. A high amplitude of dynamics in apo-calmodulin (in the absence of Ca(2+)) was nearly abolished at a high Ca(2+) concentration. For the C-terminal domain, the dynamic amplitude changed little with Ca(2+) concentration. The Ca(2+) dependence of dynamics for the N-terminal domain suggests that the fluctuations detected by FCS in the N-terminal domain are coupled to the opening and closing of the EF-hand Ca(2+)-binding loops.

SUBMITTER: Price ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3151148 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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FRET-FCS detection of intralobe dynamics in calmodulin.

Price E Shane ES   Aleksiejew Marek M   Johnson Carey K CK  

The journal of physical chemistry. B 20110707 29


Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) can be coupled with Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) to detect intramolecular dynamics of proteins on the microsecond time scale. Here we describe application of FRET-FCS to detect fluctuations within the N-terminal and C-terminal domains of the Ca(2+)-signaling protein calmodulin. Intramolecular fluctuations were resolved by global fitting of the two fluorescence autocorrelation functions (green-green and red-red) together with the two cross-c  ...[more]

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