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Location of high-affinity metal-binding sites in the profile structure of the Ca+2-ATPase in the sarcoplasmic-reticulum by resonance x-ray-diffraction

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authors

  • Asturias, Francisco
  • Blasie, J. K.

publication date

  • February 1991

journal

  • Biophysical Journal  Journal

abstract

  • Resonance x-ray diffraction measurements on the lamellar diffraction from oriented multilayers of isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes containing a small concentration of lanthanide (III) ions (lanthanide/protein molar ratio approximately 4) have allowed us to calculate both the electron density profile of the SR membrane and the separate electron density profile of the resonant lanthanide atoms bound to the membrane to a relatively low spatial resolution of approximately 40 A. Analysis of the membrane electron density profile and modeling of the separate low resolution lanthanide atom profile, using step-function electron density models based on the assumption that metal binding sites in the membrane profile are discrete and localized, resulted in the identification of a minimum of three such binding sites in the membrane profile. Two of these sites are low-affinity, low-occupancy sites identified with the two phospholipid polar headgroup regions of the lipid bilayer within the membrane profile. Up to 20% of the total lanthanide (III) ions bind to these low-affinity sites. The third site has relatively high affinity for lanthanide ion binding; its Ka is roughly an order of magnitude larger than that for the lower affinity polar headgroup sites. Approximately 80% of the total lanthanide ions present in the sample are bound to this high-affinity site, which is located in the "stalk" portion of the "headpiece" within the profile structure of the Ca+2 ATPase protein, approximately 12 A outside of the phospholipid polar headgroups on the extravesicular side of the membrane profile. Based on the nature of our results and on previous reports in the literature concerning the ability of lanthanide (III) ions to function as Ca+2 analogues for the Ca+2 ATPase we suggest that we have located a high-affinity metal binding site in the membrane profile which is involved in the active transport of Ca+2 ions across the SR membrane by the Ca+2 ATPase.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Binding Sites
  • Calcium
  • Calcium-Transporting ATPases
  • Egtazic Acid
  • Magnesium
  • Models, Structural
  • Muscles
  • Protein Conformation
  • Rabbits
  • Sarcoplasmic Reticulum
  • X-Ray Diffraction
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC1281165

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0006-3495

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/S0006-3495(91)82242-1

PubMed ID

  • 1826221
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 488

end page

  • 502

volume

  • 59

issue

  • 2

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