PMID- 10359649 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19990802 LR - 20191210 IS - 0264-6021 (Print) IS - 0264-6021 (Linking) VI - 340 ( Pt 3) DP - 1999 Jun 15 TI - Protein modification during biological aging: selective tyrosine nitration of the SERCA2a isoform of the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase in skeletal muscle. PG - 657-69 AB - The accumulation of covalently modified proteins is an important hallmark of biological aging, but relatively few studies have addressed the detailed molecular-chemical changes and processes responsible for the modification of specific protein targets. Recently, Narayanan et al. [Narayanan, Jones, Xu and Yu (1996) Am. J. Physiol. 271, C1032-C1040] reported that the effects of aging on skeletal-muscle function are muscle-specific, with a significant age-dependent change in ATP-supported Ca2+-uptake activity for slow-twitch but not for fast-twitch muscle. Here we have characterized in detail the age-dependent functional and chemical modifications of the rat skeletal-muscle sarcoplasmic-reticulum (SR) Ca2+-ATPase isoforms SERCA1 and SERCA2a from fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle respectively. We find a significant age-dependent loss in the Ca2+-ATPase activity (26% relative to Ca2+-ATPase content) and Ca2+-uptake rate specifically in SR isolated from predominantly slow-twitch, but not from fast-twitch, muscles. Western immunoblotting and amino acid analysis demonstrate that, selectively, the SERCA2a isoform progressively accumulates a significant amount of nitrotyrosine with age (approximately 3.5+/-0. 7 mol/mol of SR Ca2+-ATPase). Both Ca2+-ATPase isoforms suffer an age-dependent loss of reduced cysteine which is, however, functionally insignificant. In vitro, the incubation of fast- and slow-twitch muscle SR with peroxynitrite (ONOO-) (but not NO/O2) results in the selective nitration only of the SERCA2a, suggesting that ONOO- may be the source of the nitrating agent in vivo. A correlation of the SR Ca2+-ATPase activity and covalent protein modifications in vitro and in vivo suggests that tyrosine nitration may affect the Ca2+-ATPase activity. By means of partial and complete proteolytic digestion of purified SERCA2a with trypsin or Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease, followed by Western-blot, amino acid and HPLC-electrospray-MS (ESI-MS) analysis, we localized a large part of the age-dependent tyrosine nitration to the sequence Tyr294-Tyr295 in the M4-M8 transmembrane domain of the SERCA2a, close to sites essential for Ca2+ translocation. FAU - Viner, R I AU - Viner RI AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, Simons Building, 2095 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA. FAU - Ferrington, D A AU - Ferrington DA FAU - Williams, T D AU - Williams TD FAU - Bigelow, D J AU - Bigelow DJ FAU - Schoneich, C AU - Schoneich C LA - eng GR - P01AG12993/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - England TA - Biochem J JT - The Biochemical journal JID - 2984726R RN - 0 (Isoenzymes) RN - 0 (Nitrates) RN - 0 (Peptide Fragments) RN - 0 (Sulfhydryl Compounds) RN - 26404-66-0 (peroxynitric acid) RN - 31C4KY9ESH (Nitric Oxide) RN - 3604-79-3 (3-nitrotyrosine) RN - 42HK56048U (Tyrosine) RN - EC 3.4.- (Endopeptidases) RN - EC 7.2.2.10 (Calcium-Transporting ATPases) RN - K848JZ4886 (Cysteine) RN - S88TT14065 (Oxygen) RN - SY7Q814VUP (Calcium) SB - IM MH - Aging/*metabolism MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Animals MH - Biological Transport MH - Calcium/metabolism MH - Calcium-Transporting ATPases/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Cysteine/metabolism MH - Endopeptidases/metabolism MH - Isoenzymes/chemistry/metabolism MH - Muscle Fibers, Fast-Twitch/enzymology MH - Muscle Fibers, Slow-Twitch/enzymology MH - Nitrates/metabolism MH - Nitric Oxide/metabolism MH - Oxygen/metabolism MH - Peptide Fragments/chemistry/metabolism MH - *Protein Processing, Post-Translational MH - Rats MH - Rats, Inbred F344 MH - Sarcoplasmic Reticulum/*enzymology/metabolism MH - Sulfhydryl Compounds/metabolism MH - Tyrosine/*analogs & derivatives/analysis/*metabolism PMC - PMC1220296 EDAT- 1999/06/09 00:00 MHDA- 1999/06/09 00:01 CRDT- 1999/06/09 00:00 PHST- 1999/06/09 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1999/06/09 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/06/09 00:00 [entrez] PST - ppublish SO - Biochem J. 1999 Jun 15;340 ( Pt 3):657-69.