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  • Title: The mechanism of Ca2+ regulation of vascular smooth muscle thin filaments by caldesmon and calmodulin.
    Author: Smith CW, Pritchard K, Marston SB.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1987 Jan 05; 262(1):116-22. PubMed ID: 2947901.
    Abstract:
    The interactions of vascular smooth muscle caldesmon with actin, tropomyosin, and calmodulin were determined under conditions in which the four proteins can form reconstituted Ca2+-sensitive smooth muscle thin filaments. Caldesmon bound to actin in a complex fashion with high affinity sites (K = 10(7) M-1) saturating at a stoichiometry of 1 per 28 actins, and lower affinity sites at 1 per 7 actins. The affinity of binding was increased in the presence of tropomyosin, and this could be attributed to a direct interaction between caldesmon and tropomyosin which was demonstrated using caldesmon cross-linked to Sepharose. In the presence of tropomyosin, occupancy of the high affinity sites was associated with inhibition of actin-activated myosin MgATPase activity. Caldesmon was found to bind to calmodulin in the presence of Ca2+, with an affinity of 10(6) M-1. The binding of Ca2+ X calmodulin to caldesmon was associated with the neutralization of inhibition of actin-tropomyosin. Ca2+ X calmodulin binding reduced but did not abolish the binding of caldesmon to actin-tropomyosin. From this data we have proposed a model for smooth muscle thin filaments in which Ca2+ regulates activity by converting the inhibited actin-tropomyosin-caldesmon complex to the active complexes, actin-tropomyosin-caldesmon-calmodulin X Ca2+ and actin-tropomyosin.
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