Functional transitions in myosin: Formation of a critical salt-bridge and transmission of effect to the sensitive tryptophan

AUTOR(ES)

Onishi, Hirofumi

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

For analyzing the mechanism of energy transduction in the “motor” protein, myosin, it is opportune both to model the structural change in the hydrolytic transition, ATP (myosin-bound) + H2O → ADP⋅Pi (myosin-bound) and to check the plausibility of the model by appropriate site-directed mutations in the functional system. Here, we made a series of mutations to investigate the role of the salt-bridge between Glu-470 and Arg-247 (of chicken smooth muscle myosin) that has been inferred from crystallography to be a central feature of the transition [Fisher, A. J., Smith, C. A., Thoden, J. B., Smith, R., Sutoh, K., Holden, H. M., & Rayment, I. (1995) Biochemistry 34, 8960–8972]. Our results suggest that whether in the normal, or in the inverted, direction an intact salt-bridge is necessary for ATP hydrolysis, but when the salt-bridge is in the inverted direction it does not support actin activation. Normally, fluorescence changes result from adding nucleotides to myosin; these signals are reported by Trp-512 (of chicken smooth muscle myosin). Our results also suggest that structural impairments in the 470–247 region interfere with the transmission of these signals to the responsive Trp.

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