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Crystal structure of calmodulin
R H Kretsinger et al. J Inorg Biochem. 1986 Oct-Nov.
Abstract
The crystal structure of calmodulin has been determined to 3.6 A resolution. At this resolution the polypeptide chain can be traced. Some of the side chains have tentatively been identified. Refinement of the structure with x-ray diffraction data measured to 1.65 A resolution is continuing. As reported by Babu et al. calmodulin is about 65 A long and 30 A in diameter. Homolog domains 1 and 2 are related by a local twofold axis, as in parvalbumin and in troponin C, and form one end of the molecule. Domains 3 and 4 form the other end. The second alpha-helix of domain 2 and a short interdomain region are continuous with the first helix of domain 3, thereby forming a single helix from residues 67-93. The central region, residues 75-84, of this long helix forms a handle connecting the two pairs of homolog domains. Exclusive of the residues, 75-84, in the handle the closet approach of side chains of pair 1, 2 to pair 3, 4 is 12 A. The spatial relationship of pair 1, 2 to pair 3, 4 is similar in calmodulin to the relationship of the corresponding pairs in troponin C. However, in troponin C there are three additional residues in the handle region of the long alpha-helix and the two pairs are about 5.0 A further apart. On the surface of pair 1, 2 in calmodulin there is one extended region with many hydrophobic side chains from both domain 1 and domain 2. This hydrophobic patch is bounded by two distinct clusters of anionic side chains, one from the beginning of the first helix of domain 1 and on the other side of the hydrophobic surface one from the beginning of the first helix of domain 2. Homologously, the hydrophobic patch on the surface of pair 3, 4 is bounded by two clusters of aspartate and glutamate residues. Either or both of these hydrophobic surfaces may be sites to which calmodulin target proteins bind.
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