Characterization of the COOH terminus of non-muscle caldesmon mutants lacking mitosis-specific phosphorylation sites

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Abstract

Phosphorylation of rat non-muscle caldesmon by cdc2 kinase causes reduction in most of caldesmon's properties, including caldesmon's binding to actin, myosin, and calmodulin, as well as its inhibition of actomyosin ATPase. We have generated and characterized the COOH terminus of caldesmon mutants lacking mitosis-specific phosphorylation sites, because the COOH- terminal half of caldesmon contains all 7 putative Ser or Thr sites for cdc2 kinase. Codons for the 7 putative Ser or Thr residues have been mutated to Ala, and resultant mutants were bacterially expressed. Analyses of the phosphopeptide maps of these mutants have identified 6 sites, including Ser- 249, Ser-462, Thr-468, Ser-491, Ser-497, and Ser-527 as the mitosis-specific phosphorylation sites, whereas the phosphorylation of the remaining site, Thr-377, is not detected by this assay method. Actin binding experiments have suggested that 5 sites including Ser-249, Ser-462, Thr-468, Ser-491, and Ser- 497 are important for the phosphorylation-dependent reduction in actin binding. Characterization of a mutant lacking all 7 Ser or Thr sites (7-fold mutant) has revealed that 7-fold mutation eliminates all phosphorylation sites by cdc2 kinase. While the in vitro properties of the 7-fold mutant, including actin, myosin, and calmodulin binding and inhibition of actomyosin ATPase, are very similar to those of nonmutated protein, such properties are not affected by the treatment with cdc2 kinase in contrast to nonmutated protein. This mutant should thus be useful to explore the functions of the mitosis-specific phosphorylation of caldesmon.

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Yamashiro, S., Yamakita, Y., Yoshida, K. S., Takiguchi, K., & Matsumura, F. (1995). Characterization of the COOH terminus of non-muscle caldesmon mutants lacking mitosis-specific phosphorylation sites. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 270(8), 4023–4030. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.270.8.4023

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