UNSPECIFIED. (2002) Calcium and peptide binding to folded and unfolded conformations of cardiac Troponin C. Electrospray ionization and Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY, 8 (6). pp. 471-481. ISSN 1469-0667

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Abstract

The binding of Ca2+ and of a peptide (N-TnI) to human cardiac troponin C (TnC) and its isolated N- and C-terminal domains has been characterized by electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (ESI FT-ICR) mass spectrometry. The peptide N-TnI corresponds to residues 1-29 of the cardiac-specific N-terminal extension of human cardiac troponin I (TnI). The binding of Ca2+ to intact TnC in the absence of the peptide was found to take a bimodal form with preferred stoichiometries of 1 : 1 TnC : Ca2+ and 1 : 3 TnC : Ca2+. It is concluded that TnC existed in two conformational isomers that had different binding affinities for Ca2+: the binding of 3 Ca2+ was characteristic of a folded conformation (TnC(A)) and the binding of 1 Ca2+ was characteristic of a partially unfolded conformation (TnC(B)). Both of these conformations contributed to the 8+ (and other) charge states of TnC, and were distinguished on the basis of their different Ca2+-binding affinities and not on the basis of the charge state. In the presence of the peptide, a complex with 1 : 1 : 1 TnC : peptide : Ca2+ stoichiometry was formed.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Journal or Publication Title:	EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY
Publisher:	IM PUBLICATIONS
ISSN:	1469-0667
Date:	2002
Volume:	8
Number:	6
Number of Pages:	11
Page Range:	pp. 471-481
Identification Number:	10.1255/ejms.523
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/10070

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