Interaction of thymosin beta 4 with muscle and platelet actin: implications for actin sequestration in resting platelets.
Interaction of thymosin beta 4 with muscle and platelet actin: implications for actin sequestration in resting platelets.
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胸腺素β4与肌肉和血小板肌动蛋白的相互作用:对静息血小板中肌动蛋白隔离的影响。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00142a002
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发表时间:
1992
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Safer,D
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作者:
Weber,A;Nachmias,VT;Pennise,CR;Pring,M;Safer,D
Revised Manuscript Received April 21, 1992 abstract: Quantitative measurements of the interactions of Tj84 with muscle actin suggest that its only physiological role is monomer sequestration. T/34 forms a 1: 1 complex with monomeric actin under physiological salt conditions. Its K¿ for actin is not affected by calcium. T¡ 84 binds only to actin monomers and not to filament ends or alongside the filament. T/? 4-actincomplexes do not elongate actin filaments at either the barbed or the pointed end, and, unlike actobindin, T/S4 does not specifically suppress the nucleation of polymerization. We assessed the fraction of monomeric actin that can be sequesteredby ß4 in resting platelets. This was done on the basis of (a) its Kd of 0.4-0.7 µ for platelet actin, which had been prepared by a newly devised simpler method, and (b) the values for the concentrations of monomeric actin and of Tj84 which we measured as 280 and 560 µ, respectively. Using the higher Kd value of 0.7 µ, the T04-complexed actin is calculated to be between 70 and 240 µ, depending on the steady-state free G-actin concentration. This may vary from 0.1 to 0.5 µ, the critical concentrations for uncapped and for fully barbed-end-capped actin filaments. If the Kd in the platelet is the same as in vitro, most of the sequestered actin would be bound to T/34 if more than 95% of the actin filaments are capped at their barbed ends in resting platelets.