title: A functional recombinant myosin II lacking a regulatory light chain-binding site.
abstract: Myosin II, which converts the energy of adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis into the movement of actin filaments, is a hexamer of two heavy chains, two essential light chains, and two regulatory light chains (RLCs). Dictyostelium myosin II is known to be regulated in vitro by phosphorylation of the RLC. Cells in which the wild-type myosin II heavy chain was replaced with a recombinant form that lacks the binding site for RLC carried out cytokinesis and almost normal development, processes known to be dependent on functional myosin II. Characterization of the purified recombinant protein suggests that a complex of RLC and the RLC binding site of the heavy chain plays an inhibitory role for adenosine triphosphatase activity and a structural role for the movement of myosin along actin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305.
authors.forename: T Q
authors.initials: TQ
authors.lastname: Uyeda
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Spudich
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D017301:Ca(2+) Mg(2+)-ATPase / Q000378:metabolism; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases / Q000378:metabolism; D002455:Cell Division; D004023:Dictyostelium / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009219:Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase / Q000378:metabolism; D009218:Myosins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D009219:Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase; D017301:Ca(2+) Mg(2+)-ATPase; D009218:Myosins; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases