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Binding of a new Ca2+ sensitizer, levosimendan, to recombinant human cardiac troponin C : A molecular modelling, fluorescence probe, and proton nuclear magnetic resonance study

Pollesello, Piero ; Ovaskai, Martti ; Kaivola, Juha ; Tilgmann, Carola LU orcid ; Lundström, Kenneth ; Kalkkinen, Nisse ; Ulmanen, Ismo ; Nissinen, Erkki and Taskinen, Jyrki (1994) In Journal of Biological Chemistry 269(46). p.28584-28590
Abstract

The binding of a new calcium sensitizer, levosimendan, to human cardiac troponin C (cTnC) is described. Fluorescence studies done on dansylated recombinant human cTnC and a site-directed mutant showed that levosimendan modulated the calcium-induced conformational change in cTnC, and revealed the role of Asp-88 in the binding of the drug to the NH2-terminal domain of cTnC. Furthermore, NMR studies performed on the NH2-terminal fragment of cTnC showed a spatial proximity between levosimendan and Met81, Met85, and Phe77 in the drug-protein complex. These data were used to build an optimized model of the drug-protein complex, in which levosimendan binds cTnC at the hydrophobic pocket of... (More)

The binding of a new calcium sensitizer, levosimendan, to human cardiac troponin C (cTnC) is described. Fluorescence studies done on dansylated recombinant human cTnC and a site-directed mutant showed that levosimendan modulated the calcium-induced conformational change in cTnC, and revealed the role of Asp-88 in the binding of the drug to the NH2-terminal domain of cTnC. Furthermore, NMR studies performed on the NH2-terminal fragment of cTnC showed a spatial proximity between levosimendan and Met81, Met85, and Phe77 in the drug-protein complex. These data were used to build an optimized model of the drug-protein complex, in which levosimendan binds cTnC at the hydrophobic pocket of the NH2-terminal domain. The role of the binding of levosimendan to cTnC in the pharmacological action of this drug in vivo is discussed.

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  author       = {{Pollesello, Piero and Ovaskai, Martti and Kaivola, Juha and Tilgmann, Carola and Lundström, Kenneth and Kalkkinen, Nisse and Ulmanen, Ismo and Nissinen, Erkki and Taskinen, Jyrki}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  number       = {{46}},
  pages        = {{28584--28590}},
  publisher    = {{American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology}},
  series       = {{Journal of Biological Chemistry}},
  title        = {{Binding of a new Ca2+ sensitizer, levosimendan, to recombinant human cardiac troponin C : A molecular modelling, fluorescence probe, and proton nuclear magnetic resonance study}},
  volume       = {{269}},
  year         = {{1994}},
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