Abstract：
:Tropomyosin (TM) is a coiled-coil that binds head-to-tail along the helical actin filament. The ends of 284-residue tropomyosins are believed to overlap by about nine amino acids. The present study investigates the function of the N- and C-terminal overlap regions. Recombinant tropomyosins were produced in Escherichia coli in which nine amino acids were truncated from the N-terminal, C-terminal, or both ends of striated muscle alpha-tropomyosin (TM9a) and TM2 (TM9d), a nonmuscle alpha-tropomyosin expressed in many cells. The two isoforms are identical except for the C-terminal 27 amino acids encoded by exon 9a (striated) or exon 9d (TM2). Removal of either end greatly reduces the actin affinity of both tropomyosins in all conditions and the cooperativity with which myosin promotes tropomyosin binding to actin in the open state. N-Terminal truncations generally are more deleterious than C-terminal truncations. With TM9d, truncation of the N-terminus is as deleterious as both for myosin S1-induced binding. None of the TM9d variants binds well to actin with troponin (+/-Ca(2+)). TM9a with the truncated N-terminus binds more weakly to actin with troponin (-Ca(2+)) than when the C-terminus is removed but more strongly than when both ends are removed; the actin binding of all three forms is cooperative. The results show that the ends of TM9a, though important, are not required for cooperative function and suggest they have independent functions beyond formation of an overlap complex. The nonadditivity of the TM9d truncations suggests that the ends may primarily function as a complex in this isoform. A surprising result is that all variants bound with the same affinity, and noncooperatively, to actin saturated with myosin S1. Evidently, end-to-end interactions are not required for high-affinity binding to acto-myosin S1.
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Biochemistryjournal_title
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Moraczewska J,Hitchcock-DeGregori SEdoi
10.1021/bi000242bsubject
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2000-06-13 00:00:00pages
6891-7issue
23eissn
0006-2960issn
1520-4995pii
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