Single-molecule imaging reveals how mavacamten and PKA modulate ATP turnover in skeletal muscle myofibrils.
Single-molecule imaging reveals how mavacamten and PKA modulate ATP turnover in skeletal muscle myofibrils.
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10.1085/jgp.202213087
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2023-01-02
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Control of muscle contraction is still not understood. Here, we image fluorescently tagged ATP with single-molecule precision to reveal the activity of individual myosins in different sarcomeric locations. We show how treatment with PKA and the FDA-approved drug mavacamten affects relaxed myofibrils. Muscle contraction is controlled at two levels: the thin and the thick filaments. The latter level of control involves three states of myosin heads: active, disordered relaxed (DRX), and super-relaxed (SRX), the distribution of which controls the number of myosins available to interact with actin. How these are controlled is still uncertain. Using fluorescently labeled ATP, we were able to spatially assign the activity of individual myosins within the sarcomere. We observed that SRX comprises 53% of all heads in the C-zone compared with 35% and 44% in the P- and D-zones, respectively. The recently FDA-approved hypertrophic cardiomyopathy drug, mavacamten (mava), significantly decreased DRX, favoring SRX in both the C- and D-zones at 60% and 63%, respectively. Since thick filament regulation is in part regulated by the myosin-binding protein-C (MyBP-C), we also studied PKA phosphorylation. This had the opposite effect as mava, specifically in the C-zone where it decreased SRX to 34%, favoring DRX. These results directly show that excess concentrations of mava do increase SRX, but the effect is limited across the sarcomere, suggesting mava is less effective on skeletal muscle. In addition, we show that PKA directly affects the contractile machinery of skeletal muscle leading to the liberation of repressed heads. Since the effect is focused on the C-zone, this suggests it is likely through MyBP-C phosphorylation, although our data suggest that a further reserve of myosins remain that are not accessible to PKA treatment.