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Segmental flexibility and head-head interaction in scallop myosin. A study using saturation transfer electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Abstract：

:Saturation transfer electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to investigate the rotational motion of the head domains of native and desensitized scallop myosin and its proteolytic subfragments. Scallop myosin was spin-labelled with 4-(2-iodoacetamido)-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinooxyl, which reacted with a heavy chain residue in the subfragment 1 domain. As previously shown for rabbit skeletal muscle myosin (Thomas et al., 1975), the two head domains of native scallop myosin appear to have independent motion (rotational correlation time, pi, = 0.8 X 10(-7) s for subfragment 1; 1.4 X 10(-7) s for myosin). However, removal of a regulatory light chain, to effect desensitization of the actin-activated ATPase, was associated with an increase in pi for myosin to a value of 2.4 X 10(-6) s. The Ca2+ sensitivity and initial correlation time were restored on recombination of the regulatory light chain in the presence of Mg2+. Sedimentation velocity profiles in an analytical ultracentrifuge indicated that the desensitized myosin preparations were largely monomeric and therefore the change in pi appears to reflect an intramolecular event. Addition of EDTA to spin-labelled scallop heavy meromyosin caused an immediate 2.5 to 4-fold increase in pi and a partial desensitization of the ATPase activity. Comparable experiments with subfragment 1 yielded a barely detectable increase in pi (1.5-fold) in the first ten minutes. The restricted rotational motion observed in desensitized myosin and heavy meromyosin could arise by a conformational change in the subfragment 1-subfragment 2 hinge region or by an association of one head with its partner. The latter mechanism, involving the exposed light chain binding site, would also explain the preferential release of one regulatory light chain from scallop myosin, and might account for some other co-operative effects observed in this molecule (Bagshaw, 1980).

journal_name

J Mol Biol

journal_title

Journal of molecular biology

authors

Wells C,Bagshaw CR

doi

10.1016/0022-2836(83)90090-6

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1983-02-15 00:00:00

pages

137-57

issue

eissn

0022-2836

issn

1089-8638

pii

0022-2836(83)90090-6

journal_volume

164

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Segmental flexibility and head-head interaction in scallop myosin. A study using saturation transfer electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy.