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Dynamic Na+/H+ Exchanger 1 (NHE1):Calmodulin complexes of varying stoichiometry and structure regulate Ca2+-dependent NHE1 activation

  1. Lise M Sjøgaard-Frich
  2. Andreas Prestel
  3. Emilie S Pedersen
  4. Marc Severin
  5. Kristian Kølby Kristensen
  6. Johan G Olsen
  7. Birthe B Kragelund  Is a corresponding author
  8. Stine Falsig Pedersen  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  2. Rigshospitalet, Denmark
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60889
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  1. Lise M Sjøgaard-Frich
  2. Andreas Prestel
  3. Emilie S Pedersen
  4. Marc Severin
  5. Kristian Kølby Kristensen
  6. Johan G Olsen
  7. Birthe B Kragelund
  8. Stine Falsig Pedersen
(2021)
Dynamic Na+/H+ Exchanger 1 (NHE1):Calmodulin complexes of varying stoichiometry and structure regulate Ca2+-dependent NHE1 activation
eLife 10:e60889.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60889
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Abstract

Calmodulin (CaM) engages in Ca2+-dependent interactions with numerous proteins, including a still incompletely understood physical and functional interaction with the human Na+/H+-exchanger NHE1. Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, isothermal titration calorimetry, and fibroblasts stably expressing wildtype and mutant NHE1, we discovered multiple accessible states of this functionally important complex existing in different NHE1:CaM stoichiometries and structures. We determined the NMR solution structure of a ternary complex in which CaM links two NHE1 cytosolic tails. In vitro, stoichiometries and affinities could be tuned by variations in NHE1:CaM ratio and calcium ([Ca2+]) and by phosphorylation of S648 in the first CaM-binding a-helix. In cells, Ca2+-CaM-induced NHE1 activity was reduced by mimicking S648 phosphorylation and by mutation of the first CaM-binding a-helix, whereas it was unaffected by inhibition of Akt, one of several kinases phosphorylating S648. Our results demonstrate a diversity of NHE1:CaM interaction modes and suggest that CaM may contribute to NHE1 dimerization and thereby augment NHE1 regulation. We propose that a similar structural diversity is of relevance to many other CaM complexes.

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Source data files are provided for Figure 1, 3, 5 and 6. Resonance assignments of the ternary complex of CaM and two H1 have been deposited in the Biological Magnetic Resonance Bank (BMRB) under ID code 34521. The atomic coordinates for the ternary complex of CaM and two H1 have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank under the ID code 6zbi.

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  1. Lise M Sjøgaard-Frich

    Section for Cell Biology and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  2. Andreas Prestel

    Structural Biology and NMR laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  3. Emilie S Pedersen

    Structural Biology and NMR laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  4. Marc Severin

    Section for Cell Biology and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  5. Kristian Kølby Kristensen

    Finsen Laboratory, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  6. Johan G Olsen

    Structural Biology and NMR laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  7. Birthe B Kragelund

    Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  8. Stine Falsig Pedersen

    Section for Cell Biology and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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    sfpedersen@bio.ku.dk
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Funding

Danish Research Councils (4181-00344)

  • Birthe B Kragelund

Novo Nordisk Fonden (NNF15OC0016670)

  • Birthe B Kragelund

Novo Nordisk Fonden (NNF18OC0034070)

  • Stine Falsig Pedersen

Novo Nordisk Fonden (NNF19OC0057241)

  • Stine Falsig Pedersen

Novo Nordisk Fonden (NNF18OC0032996)

  • Birthe B Kragelund

Villum Fonden

  • Birthe B Kragelund

Carlsbergfondet (CF20-0491)

  • Stine Falsig Pedersen

Novo Nordisk

  • Lise M Sjøgaard-Frich

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Lewis E Kay, University of Toronto, Canada

Version history

  1. Received: July 9, 2020
  2. Accepted: March 1, 2021
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: March 3, 2021 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: March 30, 2021 (version 2)

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© 2021, Sjøgaard-Frich et al.

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  1. Lise M Sjøgaard-Frich
  2. Andreas Prestel
  3. Emilie S Pedersen
  4. Marc Severin
  5. Kristian Kølby Kristensen
  6. Johan G Olsen
  7. Birthe B Kragelund
  8. Stine Falsig Pedersen
(2021)
Dynamic Na+/H+ Exchanger 1 (NHE1):Calmodulin complexes of varying stoichiometry and structure regulate Ca2+-dependent NHE1 activation
eLife 10:e60889.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60889

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