Regulation of binding of subfragment 1 in isolated rigor myofibrils.
Regulation of binding of subfragment 1 in isolated rigor myofibrils.
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分离的僵硬肌原纤维中亚片段 1 结合的调节。
DOI:
10.1083/jcb.111.6.2989
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发表时间:
1990
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Marsh,BB
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作者:
Swartz,DR;Greaser,ML;Marsh,BB
A steric-hindrance model has been used to explain the regulation of muscle contraction by tropomyosin-troponin complex. The regulation of binding was studied by microscopic observation of mixtures of fluorescent subfragment 1 (S1) with rigor myofibrils at different actin-to-S1 ratios and in the presence and absence of calcium. Procedures were adapted to protect the critical thiols of S1 before conjugation to thiol-specific fluorochromes, this giving fluorescent S1 with unaltered enzyme activity. S1 binding was greatest in the I band (except at the Z-lines) in the presence of calcium regardless of the [S1]. The patterns in the absence of calcium depended on the actin-to-S1 ratios: low [S1], binding in the myosin-actin overlap region; intermediate [S1], highest binding at the AI junction; high [S1], greatest binding in the I-band. The two distinct binding patterns observed at low [S1] were demonstrated by dual-channel fluorescence microscopy when myofibrils were sequentially incubated with fluorescent S1 without calcium followed by a different fluorescent S1 with calcium. These observations support the concept of rigor activation of actin sites. The change in the pattern upon increasing IS1] without calcium demonstrate cooperative interactions along the thin filament. However, these interactions (under the conditions used without calcium) do not appear to extend over> 2-3 tropomyosintroponin-7 actin functional units.M USC LE contracts by a sliding of the actin-containing thin filaments over the myosin-containing thick filaments (Huxley and Neidergerke, 1954; Huxley and Hanson, 1954), a process using the ATP driven, cyclical interaction between actin and the myosin head to produce both movement and force. The regulation of contraction in vertebrate skeletal muscle is a complex process employing a minimum of six different protein species and calcium (Ebashi et al., 1969; Weber and Murray, 1973). Both tropomyosin and troponin are required for demonstrating calcium sensitivity of ATPase activity in acto-myosin preparations. The tropomyosin-troponin complex spans seven actin monomers, and this group has been defined as the functional unit of the thin filament (Bremel and Weber, 1972). The troponin complex is composed of three subunits, troponin-T, troponin-I, and troponin-C. The latter confers calcium sensitivity to regulated acto-myosin ATPase activity, while the combination of troponin-T and troponin-I without troponin-C inhibits ATPase activity (Greaser and Gergely, 1973). The structural mechanism by which tropomyosin and tropouin regulate contraction has been studied by x-ray diffraction of intact muscle fibers. Early studies demonstrated that there was a difference in the intensity pattern of the actin layer lines between relaxed and contracted muscles; it was explained by a small movement of tropomyosin from a peripheral position on the thin filament to a position nearer to the groove of the actin filament (Haselgrove, 1972; Huxley, 1972; Parry and Squire, 1973). These structural observations and the proposed mechanism for the regulation of