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Call For Papers: Comparative Genomics

Functional and evolutionary relationships of troponin C

¹ Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph
² The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario
³ Cardiac Membrane Research Laboratory, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
⁴ Cardiovascular Sciences, Child & Family Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Striated muscle contraction is initiated when, following membrane depolarization, Ca²⁺ binds to the low-affinity Ca²⁺ binding sites of troponin C (TnC). The Ca²⁺ activation of this protein results in a rearrangement of the components (troponin I, troponin T, and tropomyosin) of the thin filament, resulting in increased interaction between actin and myosin and the formation of cross bridges. The functional properties of this protein are therefore critical in determining the active properties of striated muscle. To date there are 61 known TnCs that have been cloned from 41 vertebrate and invertebrate species. In vertebrate species there are also distinct fast skeletal muscle and cardiac TnC proteins. While there is relatively high conservation of the amino acid sequence of TnC homologs between species and tissue types, there is wide variation in the functional properties of these proteins. To date there has been extensive study of the structure and function of this protein and how differences in these translate into the functional properties of muscles. The purpose of this work is to integrate these studies of TnC with phylogenetic analysis to investigate how changes in the sequence and function of this protein, integrate with the evolution of striated muscle.

phylogenetic analysis; protein evolution; temperature; muscle