COUPLING BETWEEN THE ENZYMATIC SITE OF MYOSIN AND THE MECHANICAL OUTPUT OF MUSCLE
COUPLING BETWEEN THE ENZYMATIC SITE OF MYOSIN AND THE MECHANICAL OUTPUT OF MUSCLE
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(79)90121-9
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
CLARKE, ML
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作者:
MARSTON, SB;TREGEAR, RT;CLARKE, ML
When Mg-imido-ATP binds to the active site of myosin in glycerol-extracted insect [Lethacerus cordofanus, L. indicus and L. griseus] muscle fibers it causes a rapid, fully reversible and stress-independent increase in rest length of 2 nm per 1/2 sarcomere, while the isotonic stiffness remains within 2% of the rigor value. Mg-ADP and H-imido-ATP bind but have less mechanical effect and also less effect on the equatorial X-ray diffraction pattern. Coupling of binding to length change is quantitatively reversible, since stress of 200 nm per fiber doubles the amount of Mg-imido-ATP or Mg-ATP bound at low concentrations but has no effect on Mg-ADP or H-imido-ATP binding. Linkage between the nucleotide and actin binding sites is shown by studies with subfragment 1 in solution. By fluorometric titration the nucleotide affinity for subfragment 1 increased in the order of H-imido-ATP, Mg-ADP and Mg-imido-ATP, while by a sedimentation technique the affinity of actin for subfragment 1-nucleotide decreased in the same order. The data are interpreted in terms of a simple cross-bridge model and their relevance to the mechanism of muscle contraction is discussed.