Biophysical Journal 61: 399-409 (1992)
© 1992 the Biophysical Society

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Ca(2+)-dependence of structural changes in troponin-C in demembranated fibers of rabbit psoas muscle.

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.

ABSTRACT

The Ca(2+)-dependence of structural changes in troponin-C (TnC) has been detected by monitoring the fluorescence from TnC labeled at Methionine-25, in the NH2-terminal domain, with danzylaziridine (TnC-DANZ) and then exchanged for endogenous TnC in glycerinated single fibers. The fluorescence-pCa relation obtained from fibers stretched to a sarcomere length greater than 4.0 microns evidenced two transitions: a small one, attributable to the binding of Ca2+ to the high affinity, Ca(2+)-Mg(2+)-binding sites of TnC; and a large one, attributable to the binding of Ca2+ to the low affinity, Ca(2+)-specific binding sites of TnC. In the fluorescence-pCa relation determined with fibers set to a sarcomere length of 2.4 microns, hence obtained in the presence of cycling cross-bridges, the large transition had the same Ca(2+)-dependence as did the development of tension. These results indicate that the NH2-terminal globular domain of TnC is modified by the binding of Ca2+ to sites located in both globular domains and that the structural changes in TnC resulting from the binding of Ca2+ to the low-affinity sites, but not to the high-affinity sites, are directly associated with the triggering of contraction.

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