Shea, Madeline - University of Iowa - Department of Biochemistry

个人简介

Education PhD, T.C. Jenkins Dept. of Biophysics, The Johns Hopkins University BS, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology Fellow, Dept. of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University

研究领域

This laboratory probes the linkage between cooperative ligand binding, conformational change and enzyme activation by calmodulin, a regulatory calcium- binding protein. Calmodulin is the primary eukaryotic intracellular calcium receptor and serves as a second messenger to regulate cellular responses to transient calcium fluxes. It is clinically relevant for human physiology and is also found in plants and fungi. Cooperative binding of calcium ions to calmodulin causes large conformational changes; these changes control the sites and extent of calmodulin activation of important cellular enzymes and structural proteins. In order to determine the states that are functionally significant in this complex network of interactions, it is necessary to develop and apply new methods to directly determine energetic and structural properties of calcium binding. Quantitative proteolytic footprinting and applications of multi-dimensional heteronuclear NMR are capable of monitoring individual residues or bonds during a titration representative of a cellular influx of calcium. These studies have shown that the two domains of calmodulin interact in different ways as calcium fills the four sites of the protein. X-ray crystallography is used to determine how the domains interact with peptides that represent CaM-binding motifs in target proteins. Calcium-dependent structural rearrangements of calmodulin also are monitored by changes in the fluorescence, circular dichroism and hydrodynamic properties. These combined approaches are aimed at elucidating molecular mechanisms of cooperativity in calmodulin by determining the differences in intrinsic binding affinity at the four calcium-binding sites of calmodulin and the extent and nature of inter- and intra-domain cooperativity. To dissect these interactions, we are studying the isolated domains of calmodulin and many mutants shown to have phenotypic effects on complexes of calmodulin with its target enzymes. Computational molecular modeling is used to visualize and calculate properties of these proteins and serves as a complement to the experimental studies of ligand- linked conformational change. The goal is to combine energetic and structural data to formulate models that will explain how synchronized changes in calcium levels modulate many diverse physiological processes.

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Feldkamp, M. D., Gakhar, L., Pandey, N. & Shea, M. A. (2015). Opposing orientations of the anti-psychotic drug trifluoperazine selected by alternate conformations of M144 in calmodulin.. Proteins, 83(5), 989-96. DOI: 10.1002/prot.24781. Wang, X., Boyken, S. E., Hu, J., Xu, X., Rimer, R. P., Shea, M. A., Shaw, A. S., Andreotti, A. H. & Huang, Y. H. (2014). Calmodulin and PI(3,4,5)P3 cooperatively bind to the Itk pleckstrin homology domain to promote efficient calcium signaling and IL-17A production. Sci. Signal, 7, 337. DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2005147. Newman, R. A., Sorensen, B. R., Kilpatrick, A. M. & Shea, M. A. (2014). Calcium-dependent energetics of calmodulin domain interactions with regulatory regions of the Ryanodine Receptor Type 1 (RyR1). Biophys Chem, 193-194, 35-49. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2014.07.004. O'Donnell, S. E., Yu, L., Fowler, C. A. & Shea, M. A. (2011). Recognition of ß-calcineurin by the domains of calmodulin: thermodynamic and structural evidence for distinct roles. Proteins, 79(3), 765-86. Feldkamp, M. D., Yu, L. & Shea, M. A. (2011). Structural and energetic determinants of apo calmodulin binding to the IQ motif of the Na(V)1.2 voltage-dependent sodium channel. Structure (London, England: 1993), 19(5), 733-47. Evans, T. I., Hell, J. W. & Shea, M. A. (2011). Thermodynamic linkage between calmodulin domains binding calcium and contiguous sites in the C-terminal tail of Ca(V)1.2. Biophysical Chemistry, 159(1), 172-87. Feldkamp, M. D., O'Donnell, S. E., Yu, L. & Shea, M. A. (2010). Allosteric effects of the antipsychotic drug trifluoperazine on the energetics of calcium binding by calmodulin. Proteins, 78(10), 2265-82. O'Donnell, S. E., Newman, R. A., Witt, T. J., Hultman, R., Froehlig, J. R., Christensen, A. P. & Shea, M. A. (2009). Thermodynamics and conformational change governing domain-domain interactions of calmodulin. Methods in Enzymology, 466, 503-26. Evans, T. I., Shea, M. A. (2009). Energetics of calmodulin domain interactions with the calmodulin binding domain of CaMKII. Proteins, 76(1), 47-61. Erickson, J. R., Joiner, M. L., Guan, X., Kutschke, W., Yang, J., Oddis, C. V., Bartlett, R. K., Lowe, J. S., O'Donnell, S. E., Aykin-Burns, N., Zimmerman, M. C., Zimmerman, K., Ham, A. J., Weiss, R. M., Spitz, D. R., Shea, M. A., Colbran, R. J., Mohler, P. J. & Anderson, M. E. (2008). A dynamic pathway for calcium-independent activation of CaMKII by methionine oxidation. Cell, 133(3), 462-74.