Backbone dynamics of calmodulin studied by 15N relaxation using inverse detected two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy: the central helix is flexible.

The backbone dynamics of Ca(2+)-saturated recombinant Drosophila calmodulin has been studied by 15N longitudinal and transverse relaxation experiments, combined with 15N(1H) NOE measurements. Results indicate a high degree of mobility near the middle of the central helix of calmodulin, from residue K77 through S81, with order parameters (S2) in the 0.5-0.6 range. The anisotropy observed in the motion of the two globular calmodulin domains is much smaller than expected on the basis of hydrodynamic calculations for a rigid dumbbell type structure. This indicates that, for the purposes of 15N relaxation, the tumbling of the N-terminal (L4-K77) and C-terminal (E82-S147) lobes of calmodulin is effectively independent. A slightly shorter motional correlation time (tau c approximately 6.3 ns) is obtained for the C-terminal domain compared to the N-terminal domain (tau c approximately 7.1 ns), in agreement with the smaller size of the C-terminal domain. A high degree of mobility, with order parameters of approximately 0.5, is also observed in the loop that connects the first with the second EF-hand type calcium binding domain and in the loop connecting the third and fourth calcium binding domain.

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