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The characterization of myosin-product complexes and of product-release steps during the magnesium ion-dependent adenosine triphosphatase reaction.

ABSTRACT: Evidence is presented that the myosin subfragment-1-ADP complex, generated by the addition of Mg(2+) and ADP to subfragment 1, is an intermediate within the myosin Mg(2+)-dependent adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) turnover cycle. The existence of this species as a steady-state intermediate at pH8 and 5 degrees C is demonstrated by fluorescence measurements, but its concentration becomes too low to measure at 21 degrees C. This arises because there is a marked temperature-dependence on the rate of the process controlling ADP dissociation from subfragment 1 (rate=1.4s(-1) at 21 degrees C, 0.07s(-1) at 5 degrees C). In the ATPase pathway this reaction is in series with a relatively temperature-insensitive process, namely an isomerization of the subfragment-1-product complex (rate=0.055s(-1) at 21 degrees C, 0.036s(-1) at 5 degrees C). By means of studies on the P(i) inhibition of nucleotide-association rates, a myosin subfragment-1-P(i) complex was characterized with a dissociation equilibrium constant of 1.5mm. P(i) appears to bind more weakly to the myosin subfragment-1-ADP complex. The studies indicate that P(i) dissociates from subfragment 1 at a rate greater than 40s(-1), and substantiates the existence of a myosin-product isomerization before product release in the elementary processes of the Mg(2+)-dependent ATPase. In this ATPase mechanism Mg(2+) associates as a complex with ATP and is released as a complex with ADP. In 0.1m-KCl at pH8 1.0mol of H(+) is released/mol of subfragment 1 concomitant with the myosin-product isomerization or P(i) dissociation, and 0.23 mol of H(+) is released/mol of subfragment when ATP binds to the protein, but 0.23 mol of H(+) is taken up again from the medium when ADP dissociates. Within experimental sensitivity no H(+) is released into the medium in the step involving ATP cleavage.

SUBMITTER: Bagshaw CR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1168087 | biostudies-other | 1974 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Project description:1. The effects of Ca(2+) and Mg(2+) on the enzymic activity of myosin were studied with myosin preparations treated by the ion-exchange resin Chelex-100. A reaction mixture containing 0.05m-potassium chloride was chosen in which the effects of univalent ions such as K(+), Na(+) and Cl(-) do not change significantly with small variations in their concentrations. 2. The relationship between the rate of hydrolysis of ATP or ITP and the concentration of Ca(2+) suggests that a relatively weak binding of Ca(2+) either to myosin or to the substrate nucleotide is responsible for the activation of the enzymic activity. According to the experiments with an ultrafiltration technique, the binding of Ca(2+) to myosin proceeds in at least two steps, the first occurring at one site on every 500000 atomic mass units of myosin with an apparent association constant, K(app.), 1.3x10(6)m(-1), and the second seeming to be so weak that its binding parameters cannot be determined by the method used. The first type of Ca(2+) binding is not observable with N-ethylmaleimide-modified myosin, yet this modified myosin shows activation by Ca(2+) of its adenosine triphosphatase and inosine triphosphatase. 3. The inhibition by Mg(2+) can be related to a binding reaction of Mg(2+) with myosin having K(app.) approximately 10(6)m(-1). Mg(2+) replaces the Ca(2+) bound tightly to myosin. The K(app.) for Mg(2+)-myosin binding calculated by assuming a competition between Ca(2+) and Mg(2+) for the same site is 2.1x10(5)-3.0x10(5)m(-1). When myosin is modified with a thiol reagent (p-mercuribenzoate) at a certain ratio to myosin, the inhibition by Mg(2+) becomes unobservable. 4. The behaviour of the hydrolytic activity of myosin on ATP or ITP in the presence of both Ca(2+) and Mg(2+) is consistent with the explanation that the inhibition by Mg(2+) is due to the tight binding of Mg(2+) to myosin, whereas the activation by Ca(2+) is caused either by a weak binding of Ca(2+) to myosin or by CaATP(2-) or by both.

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