Spudich JA, Lin S. Cytochalasin B, its interaction with actin and actomyosin from muscle (cell movement-microfilaments-rabbit striated muscle).
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1972;
69:442-6. [PMID:
4258316 PMCID:
PMC426476 DOI:
10.1073/pnas.69.2.442]
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Abstract
Cytochalasin B, an alkaloid that inhibits a wide variety of cellular movements, interacts with actomyosin, the contractile protein complex of striated muscle. This interaction causes a decrease in viscosity of the actomyosin complex and an inhibition of acto-heavy meromyosin ATPase activity of at least 60%. Cytochalasin B does not affect the viscosity of myosin nor the ATPase activity of heavy meromyosin, suggesting that the drug might interact directly with the actin moiety of the actomyosin complex. Indeed, as judged by viscometry, there is a strong interaction of cytochalasin B with actin, at nearly stoichiometric concentrations. Myosin appears to compete with cytochalasin for binding to actin.
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