title: Myosin surface loop 4 modulates inhibition of actomyosin 1b ATPase activity by tropomyosin.
abstract: Structural studies of the class I myosin, MyoE, led to the predictions that loop 4, a surface loop near the actin-binding region that is longer in class I myosins than in other myosin subclasses, might limit binding of myosins I to actin when actin-binding proteins, like tropomyosin, are present, and might account for the exclusion of myosin I from stress fibers. To test these hypotheses, mutant molecules of the related mammalian class I myosin, Myo1b, in which loop 4 was truncated (from an amino acid sequence of RMNGLDES to NGLD) or replaced with the shorter and distinct loop 4 found in Dictyostelium myosin II (GAGEGA), were expressed in vitro and their interaction with actin and with actin-tropomyosin was tested. Saturating amounts of expressed fibroblast tropomyosin-2 resulted in a decrease in the maximum actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity of wild-type Myo1b but had little or no effect on the actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity of the two mutants. In motility assays, few actin filaments bound tightly to Myo1b-WT-coated cover slips when tropomyosin-2 was present, whereas actin filaments both bound and were translocated by Myo1b-NGLD or Myo1b-GAGEGA in both the presence and absence of tropomyosin-2. When expressed in mammalian cells, like the wild type, the mutant myosins were largely excluded from tropomyosin-containing actin filaments, indicating that in the cell additional factors besides loop 4 determine targeting of myosins I to specific subpopulations of actin filaments.
authors.affiliation: Boston Biomedical Research Institute, 64 Grove Street, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472, USA.
authors.forename: Alena
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lieto-Trivedi
authors.forename: Sheffali
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dash
authors.forename: Lynne M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Coluccio
mesh_terms: D000205:Actomyosin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D009218:Myosins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011817:Rabbits; D014335:Tropomyosin / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D014335:Tropomyosin; D000205:Actomyosin; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D009218:Myosins