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PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 79, Issue 7, Pages 2233-2246Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/prot.23048
Keywords
bioinformatics; calmodulin; cell-cycle; circular dichroism; fluorescence; human immunodeficiency virus; mass spectrometry; melittin; NMR spectroscopy; transactivator of transcription
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- University of Manitoba
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The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) genome encodes 18 proteins and 2 peptides. Four of these proteins encode high-affinity calmodulin-binding sites for which direct interactions with calmodulin have already been described. In this study, the HIV-1 proteome is queried using an algorithm that predicts calmodulin-binding sites revealing seven new putative calmodulin-binding sites including residues 34-56 of the transactivator of transcription (Tat). Tat is a 101-residue intrinsically disordered RNA-binding protein that plays a central role in the regulation of HIV-1 replication. Interactions between a Tat peptide (residues 34-56), melittin, a well-characterized calmodulin-binding peptide, and calmodulin were examined by direct binding studies, mass spectrometry, and fluorescence. The Tat peptide binds to both calcium-saturated and apo-calmodulin with a low micromolar affinity. Conformational changes induced in the Tat peptide were determined by circular dichroism, and residues in calmodulin that interact with the peptide were identified by HSQC NMR spectroscopy. Multiple interactions between HIV-1 proteins and calmodulin, a highly promiscuous signal transduction hub protein, may be an important mechanism by which the virus controls cell physiology.
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