title: Interaction of AMP-aminohydrolase with myosin and its subfragments.
abstract: We have shown that purified rabbit skeletal muscle AMP-aminohydrolase binds to rabbit muscle myosin, heavy meromyosin, and Subfragment 2 but does not bind to light meromyosin nor to Subfragment 1. The dissociation constant for binding to myosin was determined to be 0.14 muM. A new sedimentation boundary, presumably reflecting formation of a complex between AMP-aminohydrolase and heavy meromyosin or Subfragment 2, can be observed using the analytical ultracentrifuge. Binding of AMP-aminohydrolase to myosin, heavy meromyosin, or Subfragment 2 is abolished by phosphate (less than 10 mM), an inhibitor of AMP-aminohydrolase. No other rabbit muscle enzyme tested showed any interaction with myosin under the same conditions and there was no indication of complex formation between AMP-aminohydrolase and phosphofructokinase or phosphocreatine kinase in the analytical ultracentrifuge.
mesh_terms: D000659:AMP Deaminase / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008970:Molecular Weight; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism; D015879:Myosin Subfragments / Q000378:metabolism; D009218:Myosins / Q000378:metabolism; D009709:Nucleotide Deaminases / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D011817:Rabbits
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D015879:Myosin Subfragments; D009709:Nucleotide Deaminases; D000659:AMP Deaminase; D009218:Myosins