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  • Title: Fluorescence titration and fluorescence stopped-flow studies on skeletal troponin C labeled with fluorescent maleimide reagent or dansylaziridine.
    Author: Iio T, Kondo H.
    Journal: J Biochem; 1981 Jul; 90(1):163-75. PubMed ID: 7287674.
    Abstract:
    Skeletal muscle troponin C (TN-C) labeled with N-(p-(2-benzimidazolyl)phenyl)-maleimide (BIPM) shows about 5% fluorescence increase and 82% fluorescence increase upon Ca2+ binding and Mg2+ binding to the high affinity Ca2+-binding sites (sites III and IV) of TN-C, respectively. TN-C labeled with N-(1-anilinonaphthyl-4)maleimide (ANM) shows about 26% fluorescence decrease and 22% fluorescence increase upon Ca2+ binding and Mg2+ binding to the high affinity Ca2+-binding sites, respectively. These findings indicate that environmental change around Cys-98, where the maleimide reagent bind, induced by Ca2+ binding to the high affinity Ca2+-binding sites is very different from that induced by Mg2+ binding to the same sites. These dye-protein conjugates do not show fluorescence intensity change upon Ca2+ binding to the low affinity Ca2+-binding sites (sites I and II). Dansylaziridine (DANZ)-labeled TN-C shows more than 100% fluorescence increase upon Ca2+ binding to the low affinity Ca2+-binding sites of TN-C. Hence, we can observe the kinetic processes which TN-C undergoes upon Ca2+ binding to or removal from the high affinity Ca2+-binding sites by following the fluorescence intensity change of ANM-labeled TN-C, respectively. THe kinetic processes of the fluorescence intensity change associated with the Ca2+ binding and removal reactions with the high affinty Ca2+-binding sites (rate constants, 3.7-157 s-1) are slower than the kinetic processes associated with the low affinity Ca2+-binding sites (rate constants, equal to or higher than 230 s-1) in the absence of MgCl2. In the presence of 2 mM MgCl2, a new slow phase (rate constant, 10-16 s-1) appears in the kinetic processes associated with the low affinity Ca2+-binding sites, in addition to the rapid phase which is already observed in the absence of MgCl2. Kinetic properties associated with the high affinity Ca2+-binding sites are not essentially altered by addition of 2 mM MgCl2 to the system, but ANM-labeled TN-C shows lower rate constants (0.67-26 s-1).
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