NDLI: The cPLA2 C2α Domain in Solution: Structure and Dynamics of Its Ca2+-activated and Cation-Free States

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Author	Varma, Sameer Jakobsson, Eric
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Cytosolic phospholipase A2 is involved in several signal transduction pathways where it catalyses release of arachidonic acid from intracellular lipid membranes. Its membrane insertion is facilitated by its independently folding C2α domain, which is activated by the binding of two intracellular Ca2+ ions. However, the details of its membrane-insertion mechanism, including its Ca2+-activation mechanism, are not understood. There are several unresolved issues, including the following. There are two experimentally resolved structures of the Ca2+-activated state of its isolated C2α domain, one determined using x-ray crystallography and the other determined using NMR spectroscopy, which differ from each other significantly in the spatial region that inserts into the membrane. This by itself adds to ambiguities associated with investigations targeting its mechanism of membrane insertion. Furthermore, there is no experimentally determined structure of its cation-free state, which hinders investigations associated with its cation-activation mechanism. In this work, we generate several unrestrained molecular dynamics trajectories of its isolated C2α domain in solution (equivalent to ∼60 ns) and investigate these issues. Our main results are as follows: a), the Ca2+ coordination scheme of the domain is consistent with the x-ray structure and with previous mutagenesis studies; b), the helical segment of the Ca2+-binding loop, CBL-I, undergoes nanosecond timescale flexing (but not an unwinding), as can be inferred from physiological temperature NMR data and in contrast to low temperature x-ray data; and c), removal of the two activating Ca2+ ions from their binding pockets does not alter the backbone structure of the domain, a result consistent with electron paramagnetic resonance data.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1529/biophysj.106.091850
Ending Page	976
Page Count	11
Starting Page	966
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00063495
e-ISSN	15420086
Journal	Biophysical Journal
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	92
Language	English
Publisher	Biophysical Society
Publisher Date	2007-02-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Biophysical Society
Subject Keyword	Biophysics Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Biophysics

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