Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2049355 | FEBS Letters | 2010 | 4 Pages |
The FMN-heme intraprotein electron transfer (IET) kinetics in a human inducible NOS (iNOS) oxygenase/FMN (oxyFMN) construct co-expressed with NCaM, a truncated calmodulin (CaM) construct that includes only its N-terminal globular domain consisting of residues 1–75, were determined by laser flash photolysis. The IET rate constant is significantly decreased by nearly fourfold (compared to the iNOS oxyFMN co-expressed with full length CaM). This supports an important role of full length CaM in proper interdomain FMN/heme alignment in iNOS. The IET process was not observed with added excess EDTA, suggesting that Ca2+ depletion results in the FMN domain moving away from the heme domain. The results indicate that a Ca2+-dependent reorganization of the truncated CaM construct could cause a major modification of the NCaM/iNOS association resulting in a loss of the IET.