title: Myosin subfragment-1-induced polymerization of G-actin. Formation of partially decorated filaments at high actin-S1 ratios.
abstract: Myosin subfragment-1-induced polymerization of G-actin into arrowhead-decorated F-actin-myosin subfragment-1 (S1) filaments has been studied at low ionic strength and in the absence of ATP, using a combination of light scattering, fluorescence of 4-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-7-yl- or pyrenyl-labeled actin, sedimentation, and electron microscopy techniques. When G-actin is in excess over myosin subfragment-1, the initial formation of fully decorated F-actin-S1 filaments, in which the actin:S1 molar ratio is 1:1, is followed by further incorporation of G-actin subunits in the polymer concomitant with the redistribution of the myosin heads along the polymer, leading to partially decorated filaments containing less than one S1/actin, in equilibrium with G-actin. This process leads to an overshoot in the light-scattering polymerization curves at high actin:S1 ratios. The concentration of G-actin at equilibrium with partially decorated filaments is a nonlinear function of the molar fraction of S1 in the polymer, indicating that actin-actin-S1 interactions are energetically more favorable than actin-actin or actin-S1-actin-S1 interactions.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Enzymologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Carlier
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Didry
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Erk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lepault
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pantaloni
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D000818:Animals; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D007700:Kinetics; D008027:Light; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008433:Mathematics; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism*; D015879:Myosin Subfragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D011817:Rabbits; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D015879:Myosin Subfragments