Title
CARP interacts with titin at a unique helical N2A sequence and at the domain Ig81 to form a structured complex
Author
Tiankun Zhou, Jennifer R. Fleming, Barbara Franke, Julius Bogomolovas, Igor Barsukov, Daniel J. Rigden, Siegfried Labeit, Olga Mayans
Year
2016
Journal
FEBS Letters
Abstract
The cardiac ankyrin repeat protein (CARP) is up-regulated in the myocardium during cardiovascular disease and in response to mechanical or toxic stress. Stress-induced CARP interacts with the N2A spring region of the titin filament to modulate muscle compliance. We characterize the interaction between CARP and titin-N2A and show that the binding site in titin spans the dual domain UN2A-Ig81. We find that the unique sequence UN2A is not structurally disordered, but that it has a stable, elongated a-helical fold that possibly acts as a constant force spring. Our findings portray CARP/titinN2A as a structured node and help to rationalize the molecular basis of CARP mechanosensing in the sarcomeric I-band.
Instrument
J-1100
Keywords
Circular dichroism, Secondary structure, Thermal stability, Protein denaturation, Biochemistry