Dynamics of Dystrophin's Actin-Binding Domain

Biophysical Journal
Michael E FealeyDavid D Thomas

Abstract

We have used pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance, calorimetry, and molecular dynamics simulations to examine the structural mechanism of binding for dystrophin's N-terminal actin-binding domain (ABD1) and compare it to utrophin's ABD1. Like other members of the spectrin superfamily, dystrophin's ABD1 consists of two calponin-homology (CH) domains, CH1 and CH2. Several mutations within dystrophin's ABD1 are associated with the development of severe degenerative muscle disorders Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, highlighting the importance of understanding its structural biology. To investigate structural changes within dystrophin ABD1 upon binding to actin, we labeled the protein with spin probes and measured changes in inter-CH domain distance using double-electron electron resonance. Previous studies on the homologous protein utrophin showed that actin binding induces a complete structural opening of the CH domains, resulting in a highly ordered ABD1-actin complex. In this study, double-electron electron resonance shows that dystrophin ABD1 also undergoes a conformational opening upon binding F-actin, but this change is less complete and significantly more structurally disordered than observed for utrophin. Using mo...Continue Reading

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