Inhibition of Actin−Myosin Subfragment 1 ATPase Activity by Troponin I and IC:  Relationship to the Thin Filament States of Muscle†

Biochemistry ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (31) ◽  
pp. 9345-9350 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Geeves ◽  
M. Chai ◽  
S. S. Lehrer
1997 ◽  
Vol 321 (2) ◽  
pp. 519-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pawel T. SZYMANSKI ◽  
Zenon GRABAREK ◽  
Terence TAO

Calponin is a thin-filament-associated protein that has been implicated in the regulation of smooth-muscle contractility. It binds to F-actin and inhibits the MgATPase activity of actomyosin. In the present work we have examined the effect of recombinant chicken gizzard α-calponin (RαCaP) on the binding of rabbit skeletal-muscle myosin subfragment 1 (S1) to F-actin and on the inhibition of its actin-activated MgATPase. We have found that binding of one RαCaP molecule to every three to four actin monomers is sufficient for maximal inhibition of actoŐS1 ATPase. At this RαCaP/actin ratio RαCaP does not interfere with S1 binding to F-actin. At higher concentrations, RαCaP displaces S1 from F-actin and a 1:1 RαCaPŐactin monomer complex is formed. RαCaP is also able to displace troponin I from its complex with F-actin which may reflect the amino acid sequence similarity between RαCaP and troponin I in their actin-binding regions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 4421
Author(s):  
Yurii S. Borovikov ◽  
Armen O. Simonyan ◽  
Stanislava V. Avrova ◽  
Vladimir V. Sirenko ◽  
Charles S. Redwood ◽  
...  

Substitution of Ala for Glu residue in position 173 of γ-tropomyosin (Tpm3.12) is associated with muscle weakness. Here we observe that this mutation increases myofilament Ca2+-sensitivity and inhibits in vitro actin-activated ATPase activity of myosin subfragment-1 at high Ca2+. In order to determine the critical conformational changes in myosin, actin and tropomyosin caused by the mutation, we used the technique of polarized fluorimetry. It was found that this mutation changes the spatial arrangement of actin monomers and myosin heads, and the position of the mutant tropomyosin on the thin filaments in muscle fibres at various mimicked stages of the ATPase cycle. At low Ca2+ the E173A mutant tropomyosin shifts towards the inner domains of actin at all stages of the cycle, and this is accompanied by an increase in the number of switched-on actin monomers and myosin heads strongly bound to F-actin even at relaxation. Contrarily, at high Ca2+ the amount of the strongly bound myosin heads slightly decreases. These changes in the balance of the strongly bound myosin heads in the ATPase cycle may underlie the occurrence of muscle weakness. W7, an inhibitor of troponin Ca2+-sensitivity, restores the increase in the number of myosin heads strongly bound to F-actin at high Ca2+ and stops their strong binding at relaxation, suggesting the possibility of using Ca2+-desensitizers to reduce the damaging effect of the E173A mutation on muscle fibre contractility.


1980 ◽  
Vol 185 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
S B Marston ◽  
R M Trevett ◽  
M Walters

Myosin and actin competition tests indicated the presence of both thin-filament and myosin-linked Ca2+-regulatory systems in pig aorta and turkey gizzard smooth-muscle actomyosin. A thin-filament preparation was obtained from pig aortas. The thin filaments had no significant ATPase activity [1.1 +/- 2.6 nmol/mg per min (mean +/- S.D.)], but they activated skeletal-muscle myosin ATPase up to 25-fold [500 nmol/mg of myosin per min (mean +/- S.D.)] in the presence of 10(-4) M free Ca2+. At 10(-8) M-Ca2+ the thin filaments activated myosin ATPase activity only one-third as much. Thin-filament activation of myosin ATPase activity increased markedly in the range 10(-6)-10(-5) M-Ca2+ and was half maximal at 2.7 × 10(-6) M (pCa2+ 5.6). The skeletal myosin-aorta-thin-filament mixture gave a biphasic ATPase-rate-versus-ATP-concentration curve at 10(-8) M-Ca2+ similar to the curve obtained with skeletal-muscle thin filaments. Thin filaments bound up to 9.5 mumol of Ca2+/g in the presence of MgATP2-. In the range 0.06-27 microM-Ca2+ binding was hyperbolic with an estimated binding constant of (0.56 +/- 0.07) x 10(6) M-1 (mean +/- S.D.) and maximum binding of 8.0 +/- 0.8 mumol/g (mean +/- S.D.). Significantly less Ca2+ bound in the absence of ATP. The thin filaments contained actin, tropomyosin and several other unidentified proteins. 6 M-Urea/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis at pH 8.3 showed proteins that behaved like troponin I and troponin C. This was confirmed by forming interspecific complexes between radioactive skeletal-muscle troponin I and troponin C and the aorta thin-filament proteins. The thin filaments contained at least 1.4 mumol of a troponin C-like protein/g and at least 1.1 mumol of a troponin I-like protein/g.


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