title: Effect of ethylene glycol on the interaction of different myosin subfragment 1.nucleotide complexes with actin.
abstract: To elucidate the structure of the cross-bridge intermediates in the actomyosin ATPase cycle, several laboratories have added both ethylene glycol and AMP-PNP to muscle fibers. These studies suggested that ethylene glycol shifts the structure of myosin.AMP-PNP toward the weak-binding conformation, i.e., toward the structure of myosin.ATP. Since only the weak-binding conformation of myosin subfragment 1 (S-1) binds with no apparent cooperativity to the troponin-tropomyosin-actin complex (regulated actin), we used this as a probe to examine the conformation of various S-1.nucleotide complexes in ethylene glycol. Our results show that ethylene glycol markedly weakens the binding strength of S-1, S-1.ADP, and S-1.AMP-PNP to actin but has almost no effect on the binding strength of S-1.ATP. As in muscle fibers, at 40% ethylene glycol, the binding strength of S-1.AMP-PNP to actin becomes very similar to the binding strength of S-1.ATP. In the presence of troponin-tropomyosin, the binding of S-1.AMP-PNP to actin shows no apparent cooperativity in 40% ethylene glycol. Therefore, our results confirm that ethylene glycol shifts the structure of the myosin.AMP-PNP toward the weak-binding conformation. However, our results also suggest that ethylene glycol has a direct effect on the regulated actin complex. This is shown by the fact that ethylene glycol markedly increases the cooperative binding of S-1.ADP to regulated actin both in the presence and in the absence of Ca2+.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mushtaq
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism*; D000227:Adenine Nucleotides / Q000378:metabolism*; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000266:Adenylyl Imidodiphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D011756:Diphosphates / Q000378:metabolism*; D019855:Ethylene Glycol; D005026:Ethylene Glycols / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007700:Kinetics; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism; D015879:Myosin Subfragments / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D011817:Rabbits
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D000227:Adenine Nucleotides; D011756:Diphosphates; D005026:Ethylene Glycols; D015879:Myosin Subfragments; D000266:Adenylyl Imidodiphosphate; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D019855:Ethylene Glycol