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The crystal structure of the C-terminal fragment of striated-muscle alpha-tropomyosin reveals a key troponin T recognition site.

ABSTRACT: Contraction in striated and cardiac muscles is regulated by the motions of a Ca(2+)-sensitive tropomyosin/troponin switch. In contrast, troponin is absent in other muscle types and in nonmuscle cells, and actomyosin regulation is myosin-linked. Here we report an unusual crystal structure at 2.7 A of the C-terminal 31 residues of rat striated-muscle alpha-tropomyosin (preceded by a fragment of the GCN4 leucine zipper). The C-terminal 22 residues (263-284) of the structure do not form a two-stranded alpha-helical coiled coil as does the rest of the molecule, but here the alpha-helices splay apart and are stabilized by the formation of a tail-to-tail dimer with a symmetry-related molecule. The site of splaying involves a small group of destabilizing core residues that is present only in striated muscle tropomyosin isoforms. These results reveal a specific recognition site for troponin T and clarify the physical basis for the unique regulatory mechanism of striated muscles.

SUBMITTER: Li Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC124239 | biostudies-literature | 2002 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The crystal structure of the C-terminal fragment of striated-muscle alpha-tropomyosin reveals a key troponin T recognition site.

Li Yu Y Mui Suet S Brown Jerry H JH Strand James J Reshetnikova Ludmilla L Tobacman Larry S LS Cohen Carolyn C

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20020501 11

Contraction in striated and cardiac muscles is regulated by the motions of a Ca(2+)-sensitive tropomyosin/troponin switch. In contrast, troponin is absent in other muscle types and in nonmuscle cells, and actomyosin regulation is myosin-linked. Here we report an unusual crystal structure at 2.7 A of the C-terminal 31 residues of rat striated-muscle alpha-tropomyosin (preceded by a fragment of the GCN4 leucine zipper). The C-terminal 22 residues (263-284) of the structure do not form a two-strand ...[more]

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Project description:1. A method involving isoelectric precipitation and chromatography on SE-Sephadex (sulphoethyl-Sephadex) is described for the preparation of the troponin complex free of tropomyosin from low-ionic-strength extracts of natural actomyosin and myofibrils. 2. Purified troponin complex required tropomyosin to inhibit the Mg(2+)-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase activity and superprecipitation of desensitized actomyosin in the presence of ethanedioxybis(ethylamine)tetra-acetate. An upper limit of 35000 for the ;molecular weight' of the troponin complex was derived from the amounts required to bring about 50% of the maximum inhibition of the Mg(2+)-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase activity of desensitized actomyosin of known concentration. 3. In the presence of dissociating reagents the troponin complex could be dissociated into inhibitory and Ca(2+)-sensitizing factors, which could be isolated separately on SE-Sephadex. The inhibitory factor inhibited the Mg(2+)-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase activity and superprecipitation of desensitized actomyosin independently of the concentration of free Ca(2+) in the medium. 4. The Ca(2+)-sensitizing factor changed its electrophoretic mobility on polyacrylamide gel in the presence of ethanedioxybis(ethylamine)tetra-acetate. It formed a complex with the inhibitory factor at low ionic strength and the original biological activity of the troponin complex could be restored on mixing the inhibitory factor with the Ca(2+)-sensitizing factor in the ratio of about 3:2. 5. Evidence is presented indicating that the ability of tropomyosin preparations to restore relaxing-protein-system activity to the troponin complex and their inhibitory effect on the Ca(2+)-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase activity of desensitized actomyosin are two properties of different stability to preparative procedures and tryptic digestion. This suggests that the relaxing protein system of muscle may contain another as yet uncharacterized component.

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The crystal structure of the C-terminal fragment of striated-muscle alpha-tropomyosin reveals a key troponin T recognition site.

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The crystal structure of the C-terminal fragment of striated-muscle alpha-tropomyosin reveals a key troponin T recognition site.

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