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  • Title: Sulfhydryl group modification of sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes.
    Author: Murphy AJ.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1976 Oct 05; 15(20):4492-6. PubMed ID: 135579.
    Abstract:
    Modification of calcium-translocating sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes (SR) with 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoate) (Nbs2) reveals four classes (kinetic sets) of sulfhydryl groups. Of the 25 mol/1.5 X 10(5) G OF SR protein (i.e., containing 1 mol of ATPase protein) estimated in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate, 8 mol are unreactive, while 7, 8, and 2 mol display pseudo-first-order rate constants (k1) of 0.16, 0.68, and 8.3 min(-1), respectively (25 decrees C, pH 7.8, 4 MM Nbs2). Under these conditions, the Ca-ATPase activity is lost with k1 = 0.73 min(-1), whereas the Ca-independent ATPase activity is essentially unchanged. These results are little changed by the presence of Mg2+ or Ba2+ in the modification mixture, while Ca2+ or Sr2+ causes all 16-17 reactable sulfhydryls to be modified with k1 = 0.50 and 0.53 min(-1), respectively. The corresponding values for the loss of Ca-ATPase activity are 0.53 and 0.67 min(-1); this suggests that blocking of only one of the 16-17 SH groups inactivates the enzyme, i.e., that there is a single "essential" SH group. The midpoint of the transition between the Ca2+-free and Ca2+-modification patterns occurs at a free Ca2+ concentration of about 0.9 muM, implying that it is Ca2+ binding at the active sites (KD = 0.1 muM), rather than at the low-affinity nonspecific sites, that effects a conformation change in the ATPase protein (which contains greater than 90% of the cysteines). A calcium-induced conformation change is also suggested by increased ultraviolet absorbance spectrum of the purified ATPase protein upon calcium binding. If protein-lipid interaction is disrupted with deoxycholate or Triton X-100 (which does not destroy the Ca-ATPase activity and hence presumably leaves the tertiary structure of the ATPase protein largely intact), 95% of the sulfhydryls react with Nbs2 considerably faster; thus, at 2 mg/ml o- deoxycholate, 14 groups react with k1 greater than 20, 5 with k1 = 2.3, and 5 with k1 = 0.4 min(-1). These results suggest that the inaccessibility of SH groups in the absence of detergents is due to extensive interaction of the bilayer phospholipids with the ATPase protein.
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