title: Stopped-flow calorimetry of myosin ATP hydrolysis: an implication of chemomechanical energy transduction.
abstract: Measurements were made of heat production in the pre-steady state phase of ATP hydrolysis by myosin subfragment 1 using an improved stopped-flow calorimeter. This instrument can measure temperature changes as small as 3 X 10(-4) K with a thermal response time of less than 10 ms. When SF-1 was mixed with ATP at 0 degrees C, there was a fairly rapid heat absorbing phase (rate constant, 20-25 s-1 at pH 8) after a burst of heat production was complete within the dead time of the instrument (10 ms). Then followed a phase of very slow heat production with a heat rate of 7 kJ/mol/s. This result indicates that the ATP binding to SF-1 is an exothermic process whereas the subsequent isoenergetic splitting of ATP on the myosin site is endothermic. Thus, a decrease in the internal energy drives the ATP binding which may be regarded as the chemical energy trapping process. By contrast, the myosin intermediate with hydrolysis products (ADP + Pi) is stabilized by a large increase in entropy. In energy transduction by myosin/actin system of muscle, therefore, switching of chemical energy into a form available for mechanical work would be a transition from a low entropy to a high entropy state of weakly actin binding conformations of myosin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Okayama University Dental School, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kodama
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000378:metabolism; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002151:Calorimetry; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007700:Kinetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009218:Myosins / Q000378:metabolism*; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D009218:Myosins