Mutagenesis studies on the four EF-hands of KChIP2.2 (Potassium channel-interacting protein 2.2) were carried out to explore the conformational transition upon the binding of Ca2+ and Mg2+ and the subsequent effect on the interaction between KChIP2.2 and Kv4.2. CD spectra indicated that Ca2+- and Mg2+-loaded wild-type and mutated KChIP2.2 altered the secondary structure contents. In contrast to other mutants, mutation on EF1 caused a notably change in the secondary structure of KChIP2.2. Fluorescence measurement revealed that EF-hands 3 and 4 were high affinity Ca2+-binding sites within KChIP2.2 molecule, but the binding of Mg2+ with KChIP2.2 was marginally affected by EF-hand mutations. The results of size-exclusion chromatography showed that mutations on EF-1, EF-2 and EF-3 induced the oligomerization of KChIP2.2 and the extent of oligomerization was enhanced by Ca2+ and Mg2+. No significant differences were noted when wild-type and mutated KChIP2.2 bound with porcine brain membrane and liposome either in the absence or presence of Ca2+- and Mg2+. Pull down assay showed that KChIP2.2 and EF-hand mutants could bind with Kv4.2 in the absence of Ca2+ and Mg2+, but the interaction was enhanced by Ca2+ and Mg2+. However, the binding capability of mutants for Kv4.2 was notably lower than that observed for wild-type KChIP2.2. It was found that, in sharp contrast to that EF1 mutant exclusively localized in the nucleus, the other EF-hand mutants and wild-type protein distributed within nucleus as well as cytoplasm. Elevating intracellular Ca2+ concentration caused the translocation of EF1 mutant to cytoplasm but no appreciable effect on other mutants and wild-type KChIP2.2. . Taken together, these results suggest that the integrity of the four EF-hands are involved in function to stabilize conformation for binding with Kv channel, but this conformational transition is not essential for the binding to cell membrane.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0728106-024055 |
| Date | 28 July 2006 |
| Creators | Lee, Li-ya |
| Contributors | Long-sen Chang, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728106-024055 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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