Amino acid sequence of C-terminal 17 kDa CNBr-fragment of Akazara scallop troponin-I.

ABSTRACT

The M(r) 52,000 subunit of Akazara scallop striated muscle troponin, which was tentatively identified as troponin I, was cleaved into two major fragments with CNBr C-terminal 17 kDa fragment (CN17K) and N-terminal 35 kDa fragment (CN35K) [J. Biochem. 108, 519-521 (1990)]. CN17K inhibits rabbit reconstituted actomyosin Mg-ATPase activity, weakly in the absence of troponin T but strongly in its presence, together with Akazara tropomyosin. CN35K, however, hardly shows such inhibition. Thus, the amino acid sequence of the CN17K was determined by the Edman method. CN17K comprises 135 amino acid residues and its calculated molecular mass is 15,732 Da. A computer search of the SWISS-PROT data base revealed the TnIs of crayfish tail muscle, rabbit skeletal muscle, and bovine cardiac muscle to be homologous proteins with total sequence homologies of 39, 30, and 30%, respectively, to CN17K. Significantly high homology was observed among these TnIs in the regions around residues 75-95, 99-114, and 135-151 of the rabbit TnI. From these facts, we conclude that the 52K subunit is a TnI.