Binding kinetics of calbindin-D28k determined by flash photolysis of caged Ca2+
Binding kinetics of calbindin-D28k determined by flash photolysis of caged Ca2+
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DOI:
10.1016/s0006-3495(00)76537-4
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发表时间:
2000-12-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Vergara, JL
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作者:
Nägerl, UV;Novo, D;Vergara, JL
We have used UV flash photolysis of DM-nitrophen in combination with model-based analysis of Oregon Green 488 BAPTA-5N fluorescence transients to study the kinetics of Ca2+ binding to calbindin-D-28K. The experiments used saturated DM-nitrophen at a [Ca2+] of 1.5 muM. Under these conditions, UV laser flashes produced rapid steplike increases in [Ca2+] in the absence of calbindin-D-28K, and in its presence the decay of the flash-induced fluorescence was due solely to the Ca2+ buffering by the protein. We developed a novel method for kinetic parameter derivation and used the synthetic Ca2+ buffer EGTA to confirm its validity. We provide evidence that calbindin-D-28K binds Ca2+ in at least two distinct kinetic patterns, one arising from high-affinity sites that bind Ca2+ with a k(on) comparable to that of EGTA (i.e., similar to1 x 10(7) M-1 s(-1)) and another with lower affinity and an approximately eightfold faster k(on). In view of the inability of conventional approaches to adequately resolve rapid Ca2+ binding kinetics of Ca2+ buffers, this method promises to be highly valuable for studying the Ca2+ binding properties of other biologically important Ca2+ binding proteins.