Molecular dynamics study of Ca(2+) binding loop variants of silver hake parvalbumin with aspartic acid at the "gateway" position

Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics
Kamau FahieDonald J Nelson

Abstract

The helix-loop-helix (i.e., EF-hand) Ca(2+) ion binding motif is characteristic of a large family of high-affinity calcium ion binding proteins, including the parvalbumins, oncomodulins and calmodulins. In this work we describe a set of molecular dynamics computations on the major parvalbumin from the silver hake (SHPV-B) and on functional fragments of this protein, consisting of the first four helical regions (the ABCD fragment), and the internal helix-loop- helix region (the CD fragment). In both whole protein and protein fragments (i.e., ABCD and CD fragments), the 9th loop residue in the calcium ion binding site in the CD helix-loop-helix region (the so-called "gateway" position) has been mutated from glutamic acid to aspartic acid. Aspartic acid is one of the most common residues found at the gateway position in other (non-parvalbumin) EF- hand proteins, but has never been found at the gateway position of any parvalbumin. (Interestingly, aspartic acid does occur at the gateway position in the closely related rat and human oncomodulins.) Consistent with experimental observations, the results of our molecular dynamics simulations show that incorporation of aspartic acid at the gateway position is very disruptive to the struc...Continue Reading

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