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Vyatchin IG, Shevchenko UV, Dyachuk VA. Does muscle-type myosin have ADPase activity? Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2024; 693:149371. [PMID: 38096615 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.149371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) is a nucleotide that is structurally very similar to ATP but lacks one of the two high-energy bonds due to hydrolysis. In muscle studies, ADP is usually considered exclusively as a product formed during myosin cross-bridge cycling and is not otherwise involved in this process. In our study, we question the widely held view of ADP as a final product formed during muscle contraction. Using biophysical and biochemical methods, we managed to show that ADP can act as a substrate for myosins in at least three types of muscles: smooth and striated adductor muscles of bivalves (Mytilidae and Pectinidae), and also vertebrate skeletal muscles. According to our data, the differences in the effect of ATP and ADP on the optical, biochemical, and structural properties of actomyosins are exclusively quantitative. We explain the previous ideas about ADP as a compound capable of inhibiting the ATPase activity of actomyosin by the ability of ATP and ADP to depolymerize the polymeric myosin when the concentration in the medium reaches more than 0.3 mM.
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- Ilya G Vyatchin
- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ul. Palchevskogo 17, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ul. Palchevskogo 17, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia
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- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ul. Palchevskogo 17, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia
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Vyatchin IG, Shevchenko UV. Gelsolin from mussel's catch muscle. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2023; 688:149221. [PMID: 37976813 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.149221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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Proteins of the gelsolin family are Ca2+-dependent, multifunctional, actin-binding proteins containing three (S1-S3, about 40 kDa) or six (S1-S6, about 80 kDa) highly conserved repeats in the amino acid sequence. The pattern of interaction of these proteins with actin is complex: they can sever actin filaments; promote polymer nucleation after binding to two actin monomers; and cap the growing barbed end of actin filaments. In the present study, an actin polymerizing factor (46 kDa) from the adductor muscle of a bivalve mollusc has been discovered and identified for the first time. This protein has turned out to belong to the gelsolin family of actin regulatory proteins. The expression of gelsolin-like proteins in the tissues of bivalves was predicted after analyzing their proteome, but this is the first study where an actually expressed protein has been found. A primary determination of its physicochemical properties such as molecular weight, charge, resistance to urea, influence on actin polymerization by viscosity, and light scattering is carried out and the molecular structure analyzed.
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- Ilya G Vyatchin
- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Palchevskogo 17, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Palchevskogo 17, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia
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Vyatchin IG, Shevchenko UV, Shelud'ko NS. Modeling of the mussel catch muscle contractile apparatus in actomyosin suspension. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 533:800-805. [PMID: 32993964 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.09.086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this paper, we tried to create a contractile model from proteins of the catch muscle of the Gray mussel, similar to the well-described suspension contractile model of vertebrate skeletal muscles. This model makes it possible to characterize the processes in the reconstructed contractile apparatus with the help of monitoring the two characteristics of muscle suspensions - the optical density and the particle size. Contractile model of the catch muscle we constructed was the simplest model consisting of two proteins, actin and myosin. During this work we compared the optical manifestations of the contraction and relaxation states of constructed model with earlier data on the actomyosin suspension of skeletal muscles. It appeared that the approach used in the study of skeletal muscle actomyosin relaxing - the use of an increased amount of ATP - cannot be applied to the contractile model of the molluscan catch muscle. Nevertheless we managed to reach relaxed state of this model with modifying calcium concentration. As a result, we laid the foundation for further reconstruction of the third state of the catch muscle - the catch tone.
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- Ilya G Vyatchin
- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Palchevsky Str., Vladivostok, 690041, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Palchevsky Str., Vladivostok, 690041, Russia
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- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Palchevsky Str., Vladivostok, 690041, Russia
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Vyatchin IG, Shevchenko UV, Shelud’ko NS. Protein composition of thick filaments from molluscan catch muscle and the role of twitchin in the catch-state formation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2019; 520:634-639. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.10.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Herzog W. Passive force enhancement in striated muscle. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2019; 126:1782-1789. [PMID: 31070958 PMCID: PMC6620658 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00676.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2018] [Revised: 04/24/2019] [Accepted: 05/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Passive force enhancement is defined as the increase in passive, steady-state, isometric force of an actively stretched muscle compared with the same muscle stretched passively to that same length. Passive force enhancement is long lasting, increases with increasing muscle length and increasing stretch magnitudes, contributes to the residual force enhancement in skeletal and cardiac muscle, and is typically only observed at muscle lengths at which passive forces occur naturally. Passive force enhancement is typically equal to or smaller than the total residual force enhancement, it persists when a muscle is deactivated and reactivated, but can be abolished instantaneously when a muscle is shortened quickly from its stretched length. There is strong evidence that the passive force enhancement is caused by the filamentous sarcomeric protein titin, although the detailed molecular mechanisms underlying passive force enhancement remain unknown. Here I propose a tentative mechanism based on experimental evidence that associates passive force enhancement with the shortening of titin's free spring length in the I-band region of sarcomeres. I suggest that this shortening is accomplished by titin binding to actin and that the trigger for titin-actin interactions is associated with the formation of strongly bound cross bridges between actin and myosin that exposes actin attachment sites for titin through movement of the regulatory proteins troponin and tropomyosin.
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- Walter Herzog
- Human Performance Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary , Calgary, Alberta , Canada
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Herzog W. Why are muscles strong, and why do they require little energy in eccentric action? JOURNAL OF SPORT AND HEALTH SCIENCE 2018; 7:255-264. [PMID: 30356622 PMCID: PMC6189244 DOI: 10.1016/j.jshs.2018.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2017] [Revised: 01/22/2018] [Accepted: 03/24/2018] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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It is well acknowledged that muscles that are elongated while activated (i.e., eccentric muscle action) are stronger and require less energy (per unit of force) than muscles that are shortening (i.e., concentric contraction) or that remain at a constant length (i.e., isometric contraction). Although the cross-bridge theory of muscle contraction provides a good explanation for the increase in force in active muscle lengthening, it does not explain the residual increase in force following active lengthening (residual force enhancement), or except with additional assumptions, the reduced metabolic requirement of muscle during and following active stretch. Aside from the cross-bridge theory, 2 other primary explanations for the mechanical properties of actively stretched muscles have emerged: (1) the so-called sarcomere length nonuniformity theory and (2) the engagement of a passive structural element theory. In this article, these theories are discussed, and it is shown that the last of these-the engagement of a passive structural element in eccentric muscle action-offers a simple and complete explanation for many hitherto unexplained observations in actively lengthening muscle. Although by no means fully proven, the theory has great appeal for its simplicity and beauty, and even if over time it is shown to be wrong, it nevertheless forms a useful framework for direct hypothesis testing.
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Sun X, Liu Z, Wu B, Zhou L, Wang Q, Wu W, Yang A. Differences between fast and slow muscles in scallops revealed through proteomics and transcriptomics. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:377. [PMID: 29783952 PMCID: PMC5963113 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-4770-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Accepted: 05/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Scallops possess striated and catch adductor muscles, which have different structure and contractile properties. The striated muscle contracts very quickly for swimming, whereas the smooth catch muscle can keep the shells closed for long periods with little expenditure of energy. In this study, we performed proteomic and transcriptomic analyses of differences between the striated (fast) and catch (slow) adductor muscles in Yesso scallop Patinopecten yessoensis. RESULTS Transcriptomic analysis reveals 1316 upregulated and 8239 downregulated genes in slow compared to fast adductor muscle. For the same comparison, iTRAQ-based proteomics reveals 474 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs), 198 up- and 276 downregulated. These DEPs mainly comprise muscle-specific proteins of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, extracellular matrix, and metabolic pathways. A group of conventional muscle proteins-myosin heavy chain, myosin regulatory light chain, myosin essential light chain, and troponin-are enriched in fast muscle. In contrast, paramyosin, twitchin, and catchin are preferentially expressed in slow muscle. The association analysis of proteomic and transcriptomic data provides the evidences of regulatory events at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels in fast and slow muscles. Among 1236 differentially expressed unigenes, 22.7% show a similar regulation of mRNA levels and protein abundances. In contrast, more unigenes (53.2%) exhibit striking differences between gene expression and protein abundances in the two muscles, which indicates the existence of fiber-type specific, posttranscriptional regulatory events in most of myofibrillar proteins, such as myosin heavy chain, titin, troponin, and twitchin. CONCLUSIONS This first, global view of protein and mRNA expression levels in scallop fast and slow muscles reveal that regulatory mechanisms at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels are essential in the maintenance of muscle structure and function. The existence of fiber-type specific, posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms in myofibrillar proteins will greatly improve our understanding of the molecular basis of muscle contraction and its regulation in non-model invertebrates.
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- Xiujun Sun
- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China.,Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266200, People's Republic of China
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- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China.,Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266200, People's Republic of China
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- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China.,Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266200, People's Republic of China
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- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China.,Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266200, People's Republic of China
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- College of Fisheries, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China.,Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266200, People's Republic of China
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- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China. .,Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266200, People's Republic of China.
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Matusovsky OS, Kachmar L, Ijpma G, Bates G, Zitouni N, Benedetti A, Lavoie JP, Lauzon AM. Peripheral Airway Smooth Muscle, but Not the Trachealis, Is Hypercontractile in an Equine Model of Asthma. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2017; 54:718-27. [PMID: 26473389 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2015-0180oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
Abstract
Heaves is a naturally occurring equine disease that shares many similarities with human asthma, including reversible antigen-induced bronchoconstriction, airway inflammation, and remodeling. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the trachealis muscle is mechanically representative of the peripheral airway smooth muscle (ASM) in an equine model of asthma. Tracheal and peripheral ASM of heaves-affected horses under exacerbation, or under clinical remission of the disease, and control horses were dissected and freed of epithelium to measure unloaded shortening velocity (Vmax), stress (force/cross-sectional area), methacholine effective concentration at which 50% of the maximum response is obtained, and stiffness. Myofibrillar Mg(2+)-ATPase activity, actomyosin in vitro motility, and contractile protein expression were also measured. Horses with heaves had significantly greater Vmax and Mg(2+)-ATPase activity in peripheral airway but not in tracheal smooth muscle. In addition, a significant correlation was found between Vmax and the time elapsed since the end of the corticosteroid treatment for the peripheral airways in horses with heaves. Maximal stress and stiffness were greater in the peripheral airways of the horses under remission compared with controls and the horses under exacerbation, potentially due to remodeling. Actomyosin in vitro motility was not different between controls and horses with heaves. These data demonstrate that peripheral ASM is mechanically and biochemically altered in heaves, whereas the trachealis behaves as in control horses. It is therefore conceivable that the trachealis muscle may not be representative of the peripheral ASM in human asthma either, but this will require further investigation.
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- Oleg S Matusovsky
- 1 Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 1 Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 1 Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 1 Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 1 Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 2 Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,3 Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Chest Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,4 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and
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- 5 Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, St.-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
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- 1 Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,2 Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Non-Straub type actin from molluscan catch muscle. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2016; 474:384-387. [PMID: 27120462 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.04.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2016] [Accepted: 04/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We have developed a method of obtaining natural actin from smooth muscles of the bivalves on the example of the Сrenomytilus grayanus catch muscle. The muscles were previously rigorized to prevent a loss of thin filaments during homogenization and washings. Thin filaments were isolated with a low ionic strength solution in the presence of ATP and sodium pyrophosphate. Surface proteins of thin filaments-tropomyosin, troponin, calponin and some minor actin-binding proteins-were dissociated from actin filaments by increasing the ionic strength to 0.6 M KCL. Natural fibrillar actin obtained in that way depolymerizes easily in low ionic strength solutions commonly used for the extraction of Straub-type actin from acetone powder. Purification of natural actin was carried out by the polymerization-depolymerization cycle. The content of inactivated actin remaining in the supernatant is much less than at a similar purification of Straub-type actin. A comparative investigation was performed between the natural mussel actin and the Straub-type rabbit skeletal actin in terms of the key properties of actin: polymerization, activation of Mg-ATPase activity of myosin, and the electron-microscopic structure of actin polymers.
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Chantler PD. Scallop Adductor Muscles. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-62710-0.00004-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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Troponin-like regulation in muscle thin filaments of the mussel Crenomytilus grayanus (Bivalvia: Mytiloida). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2015.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Shelud'ko NS, Vyatchin IG, Lazarev SS, Shevchenko UV. Hybrid and non-hybrid actomyosins reconstituted with actin, myosin and tropomyosin from skeletal and catch muscles. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2015; 464:611-5. [PMID: 26166820 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.07.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2015] [Accepted: 07/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In this study, we investigated hybrid and non-hybrid actomyosin models including key contractile proteins: actin, myosin, and tropomyosin. These proteins were isolated from the rabbit skeletal muscle and the catch muscle of the mussel Crenomytilus grayanus. Our results confirmed literature data on an unusual ability of bivalve's tropomyosin to inhibit Mg-ATPase activity of skeletal muscle actomyosin. We have shown that the degree of inhibition depends on the environmental conditions and may vary within a wide range. The inhibitory effect of mussel tropomyosin was not detected in non-hybrid model (mussel myosin + mussel actin + mussel tropomyosin). This effect was revealed only in hybrid models containing mussel tropomyosin + rabbit (or mussel) actin + rabbit myosin. We assume that mussel and rabbit myosins have mismatched binding sites for actin. In addition, mussel tropomyosin interacting with actin is able to close the binding sites of rabbit myosin with actin, which leads to inhibition of Mg-ATPase activity.
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- Nikolay S Shelud'ko
- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Palchevsky Str., Vladivostok 690041, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Palchevsky Str., Vladivostok 690041, Russia
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- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Palchevsky Str., Vladivostok 690041, Russia
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- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Palchevsky Str., Vladivostok 690041, Russia
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Matusovsky OS, Shevchenko UV, Matusovskaya GG, Sobieszek A, Dobrzhanskaya AV, Shelud’ko NS. Catch muscle myorod modulates ATPase activity of Myosin in a phosphorylation-dependent way. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0125379. [PMID: 25915932 PMCID: PMC4410989 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2015] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Myorod is expressed exclusively in molluscan catch muscle and localizes on the surface of thick filaments together with twitchin and myosin. Myorod is an alternatively spliced product of the myosin heavy-chain gene that contains the C-terminal rod part of myosin and a unique N-terminal domain. The unique domain is a target for phosphorylation by gizzard smooth myosin light chain kinase (smMLCK) and, perhaps, molluscan twitchin, which contains a MLCK-like domain. To elucidate the role of myorod and its phosphorylation in the catch muscle, the effect of chromatographically purified myorod on the actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity of myosin was studied. We found that phosphorylation at the N-terminus of myorod potentiated the actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity of mussel and rabbit myosins. This potentiation occurred only if myorod was phosphorylated and introduced into the ATPase assay as a co-filament with myosin. We suggest that myorod could be related to the catch state, a function specific to molluscan muscle.
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- Oleg S. Matusovsky
- A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
- School of Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia
- * E-mail: (OM); (NS)
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- A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
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- A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
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- Institute for Biomedical Aging Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
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- A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
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- A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
- * E-mail: (OM); (NS)
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Dobrzhanskaya AV, Vyatchin IG, Lazarev SS, Matusovsky OS, Shelud'ko NS. Molluscan smooth catch muscle contains calponin but not caldesmon. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2013; 34:23-33. [PMID: 23081709 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-012-9329-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2012] [Accepted: 10/08/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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We isolated Ca(2+)-regulated thin filaments from the smooth muscle of the mussel Crenomytilus grayanus and studied the protein composition of different preparations from this muscle: whole muscle, heat-stable extract, fractions from heat-stable extract, thin filaments and intermediate stages of thin filaments purification. Among the protein components of the above-listed preparations, we did not find caldesmon (CaD), although two isoforms of a calponin-like (CaP-like) protein, which along with CaD is characteristic of vertebrate smooth muscle, were present in thin filaments. Thus, CaD is not Ca(2+)-regulator of thin filaments of this muscle. On the other hand, the mussel CaP-like protein is also not such Ca(2+)-regulator since we have shown that this protein can be selectively removed from isolated mussel thin filaments without loss of their Ca(2+)-sensitivity. We suggest that thin filaments in the smooth catch muscle possess other type of Ca(2+)-regulation, different from that in vertebrate smooth muscles.
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- Anna V Dobrzhanskaya
- Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
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Avrova SV, Rysev NA, Matusovsky OS, Shelud'ko NS, Borovikov YS. Twitchin can regulate the ATPase cycle of actomyosin in a phosphorylation-dependent manner in skinned mammalian skeletal muscle fibres. Arch Biochem Biophys 2012; 521:1-9. [PMID: 22430036 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2012.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2012] [Revised: 02/27/2012] [Accepted: 03/02/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The effect of twitchin, a thick filament protein of molluscan muscles, on the actin-myosin interaction at several mimicked sequential steps of the ATPase cycle was investigated using the polarized fluorescence of 1.5-IAEDANS bound to myosin heads, FITC-phalloidin attached to actin and acrylodan bound to twitchin in the glycerol-skinned skeletal muscle fibres of mammalian. The phosphorylation-dependent multi-step changes in mobility and spatial arrangement of myosin SH1 helix, actin subunit and twitchin during the ATPase cycle have been revealed. It was shown that nonphosphorylated twitchin inhibited the movements of SH1 helix of the myosin heads and actin subunits and decreased the affinity of myosin to actin by freezing the position and mobility of twitchin in the muscle fibres. The phosphorylation of twitchin reverses this effect by changing the spatial arrangement and mobility of the actin-binding portions of twitchin. In this case, enhanced movements of SH1 helix of the myosin heads and actin subunits are observed. The data imply a novel property of twitchin incorporated into organized contractile system: its ability to regulate the ATPase cycle in a phosphorylation-dependent fashion by changing the affinity and spatial arrangement of the actin-binding portions of twitchin.
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- Stanislava V Avrova
- Laboratory of Mechanisms of Cell Motility, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky Avenue, St. Petersburg 194064, Russia
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Molluscan catch muscle myorod and its N-terminal peptide bind to F-actin and myosin in a phosphorylation-dependent manner. Arch Biochem Biophys 2011; 509:59-65. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2011.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2010] [Revised: 02/12/2011] [Accepted: 02/12/2011] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Dobrzhanskaya AV, Matusovskaya GG, Matusovsky OS, Shelud’ko NS. Thin filaments of bivalve smooth muscle may contain a calponin-like protein. Biophysics (Nagoya-shi) 2011. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006350910050039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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A force-activated kinase in a catch smooth muscle. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2011; 31:349-58. [PMID: 21286791 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-011-9240-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2010] [Accepted: 01/18/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Permeabilized anterior byssus retractor muscles (ABRM) from Mytilus edulis were used as a simple system to test whether there is a stretch dependent activation of a kinase as has been postulated for titin and the mini-titin twitchin. The ABRM is a smooth muscle that shows catch, a condition of high force maintenance and resistance to stretch following stimulation when the intracellular Ca(++) concentration has diminished to sub-maximum levels. In the catch state twitchin is unphosphorylated, and the muscle maintains force without myosin crossbridge cycling through what is likely a twitchin mediated tether between thick and thin filaments. In catch, a small change in length results in a large change in force. The phosphorylation state of an added peptide, a good substrate for molluscan twitchin kinase, with the sequence KKRAARATSNVFA was used as a measure of kinase activation. We find that there is about a two-fold increase in phosphorylation of the added peptide with a 10% stretch of the ABRM in catch. The increased phosphorylation is due to activation of a kinase rather than to an inhibition of a phosphatase. The extent of phosphorylation of the peptide is decreased when twitchin is phosphorylated and catch force is not present. However, there is also a large increase in peptide phosphorylation when the muscle is activated in pCa 5, and the catch state does not exist. The force-sensitive kinase activity is decreased by ML-9 and ML-7 which are inhibitors of twitchin kinase, but not by the Rho kinase inhibitor Y-27632. There is no detectable phosphorylation of myosin light chains, but the phosphorylation of twitchin increases by a small, but significant extent with stretch. It is possible that twitchin senses force output resulting in a force-sensitive twitchin kinase activity that results in autophosphorylation of twitchin on site(s) other than those responsible for relaxation of catch.
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Matusovsky OS, Dyachuk VA, Kiselev KV, Matusovskaya GG, Shelud’ko NS. Expression of several domains of twitchin and myorod in the ontogeny of the mussel Mytilus trossulus. Biophysics (Nagoya-shi) 2010. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006350910050015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Mechanism of catch force: tethering of thick and thin filaments by twitchin. J Biomed Biotechnol 2010; 2010:725207. [PMID: 20625409 PMCID: PMC2896863 DOI: 10.1155/2010/725207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2010] [Accepted: 03/10/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Catch is a mechanical state occurring in some invertebrate smooth muscles characterized
by high force maintenance and resistance to stretch during extremely slow relaxation.
During catch, intracellular calcium is near basal concentration and myosin crossbridge
cyctng rate is extremely slow. Catch force is relaxed by a protein kinase A-mediated
phosphorylation of sites near the N- and C- temini of the minititin twitchin (~526 kDa).
Some catch force maintenance car also occur together with cycling myosin crossbridges
at submaximal calcium concentrations, but not when the muscle is maximally activated.
Additionally, the link responsible for catch can adjust during shortening of submaximally
activated muscles and maintain catch force at the new shorter length. Twitchin binds to
both thick and thin filaments, and the thin filament binding shown by both the N- and Cterminal
portions of twitchin is decreased by phosphorylation of the sites that regulate
catch. The data suggest that the twitchin molecule itself is the catch force beanng tether
between thick and thin filaments. We present a model for the regulation of catch in
which the twitchin tether can be displaced from thin filaments by both (a) the
phosphorylation of twitchin and (b) the attachment of high force myosin crossbridges.
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Sobieszek A, Sarg B, Lindner H, Matusovsky OS, Zukowska M. Myosin Kinase of Molluscan Smooth Muscle. Regulation by Binding of Calcium to the Substrate and Inhibition of Myorod and Twitchin Phosphorylation by Myosin. Biochemistry 2010; 49:4191-9. [PMID: 20402494 DOI: 10.1021/bi100143q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Apolinary Sobieszek
- Institute for Biomedical Aging Research, Life Science Center, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Division of Clinical Biochemistry, Biocenter, Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Division of Clinical Biochemistry, Biocenter, Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute for Biomedical Aging Research, Life Science Center, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute for Biomedical Aging Research, Life Science Center, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
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Matusovsky OS, Shelud'ko NS, Permyakova TV, Zukowska M, Sobieszek A. Catch muscle of bivalve molluscs contains myosin- and twitchin-associated protein kinase phosphorylating myorod. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2010; 1804:884-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2009.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2009] [Revised: 11/11/2009] [Accepted: 12/28/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Borovikov YS, Shelud’ko NS, Avrova SV. Molluscan twitchin can control actin–myosin interaction during ATPase cycle. Arch Biochem Biophys 2010; 495:122-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2010.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2009] [Revised: 12/31/2009] [Accepted: 01/02/2010] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Avrova SV, Shelud'ko NS, Borovikov YS. A new property of twitchin to restrict the "rolling" of mussel tropomyosin and decrease its affinity for actin during the actomyosin ATPase cycle. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2010; 394:126-9. [PMID: 20184863 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.02.128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2010] [Accepted: 02/19/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A new evidence on the regulatory function of twitchin, a titin-like protein of molluscan muscles, at muscle contraction has been obtained at studying the movements of IAF-labeled mussel tropomyosin in skeletal ghost fibers during the ATP hydrolysis cycle simulated using nucleotides and non-hydrolysable ATP analogs. For the first time, myosin-induced multistep changes in mobility and in the position of mussel tropomyosin strands on the surface of the thin filament during the ATP hydrolysis cycle have been demonstrated directly. Unphosphorylated twitchin shifts the tropomyosin towards the position typical for muscle relaxation, decreases the tropomyosin affinity to actin and inhibits its movements during the ATPase cycle. Phosphorylation of twitchin by the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A reverses this effect. These data imply that twitchin is a thin filament regulator that controls actin-myosin interaction by "freezing" tropomyosin in the blocked position, resulting in the inhibition of the transformation of weak-binding states into strong-binding ones during ATPase cycle.
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- Stanislava V Avrova
- Laboratory of Mechanisms of Cell Motility, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky Avenue, St Petersburg 194064, Russia
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Andersen Ø, Torgersen JS, Pagander HH, Magnesen T, Johnston IA. Gene expression analyses of essential catch factors in the smooth and striated adductor muscles of larval, juvenile and adult great scallop (Pecten maximus). J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2009; 30:233-42. [DOI: 10.1007/s10974-009-9192-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2009] [Accepted: 11/11/2009] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Galler S, Litzlbauer J, Kröss M, Grassberger H. The highly efficient holding function of the mollusc 'catch' muscle is not based on decelerated myosin head cross-bridge cycles. Proc Biol Sci 2009; 277:803-8. [PMID: 19906664 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Certain smooth muscles are able to reduce energy consumption greatly when holding without shortening. For instance, this is the case with muscles surrounding blood vessels used for regulating blood flow and pressure. The phenomenon is most conspicuous in 'catch' muscles of molluscs, which have been used as models for investigating this important physiological property of smooth muscle. When the shells of mussels are held closed, the responsible muscles enter the highly energy-efficient state of catch. According to the traditional view, the state of catch is caused by the slowing down of the force-generating cycles of the molecular motors, the myosin heads. Here, we show that catch can still be induced and maintained when the myosin heads are prevented from generating force. This new evidence proves that the long-held explanation of the state of catch being due to the slowing down of force producing myosin head cycles is not valid and that the highly economic holding state is caused by the formation of a rigid network of inter-myofilament connections based on passive molecular structures.
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- Stefan Galler
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Salzburg, , Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria.
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Avrova SV, Shelud’ko NS, Borovikov YS, Galler S. Twitchin of mollusc smooth muscles can induce “catch”-like properties in human skeletal muscle: support for the assumption that the “catch” state involves twitchin linkages between myofilaments. J Comp Physiol B 2009; 179:945-50. [DOI: 10.1007/s00360-009-0375-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2009] [Revised: 05/28/2009] [Accepted: 05/29/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Funabara D, Osawa R, Ueda M, Kanoh S, Hartshorne DJ, Watabe S. Myosin loop 2 is involved in the formation of a trimeric complex of twitchin, actin, and myosin. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:18015-20. [PMID: 19439402 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.016485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Molluscan smooth muscles exhibit a low energy cost contraction called catch. Catch is regulated by twitchin phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. Recently, we found that the D2 fragment of twitchin containing the D2 site (Ser-4316) and flanking immunoglobulin motifs (TWD2-S) formed a heterotrimeric complex with myosin and with actin in the region that interacts with myosin loop 2 (Funabara, D., Hamamoto, C., Yamamoto, K., Inoue, A., Ueda, M., Osawa, R., Kanoh, S., Hartshorne, D. J., Suzuki, S., and Watabe, S. (2007) J. Exp. Biol. 210, 4399-4410). Here, we show that TWD2-S interacts directly with myosin loop 2 in a phosphorylation-sensitive manner. A synthesized peptide, CAQNKEAETTGTHKKRKSSA, based on the myosin loop 2 sequence (loop 2 peptide), competitively inhibited the formation of the trimeric complex. Isothermal titration calorimetry showed that TWD2-S binds to the loop 2 peptide with a K(a) of (2.44 +/- 0.09) x 10(5) m(-1) with two binding sites. The twitchin-binding peptide of actin, AGFAGDDAP, which also inhibited formation of the trimeric complex, bound to TWD2-S with a K(a) of (5.83 +/- 0.05) x 10(4) m(-1) with two binding sites. The affinity of TWD2-S to actin and myosin was slightly decreased with an increase of pH, but this effect could not account for the marked pH dependence of catch in permeabilized fibers. The complex formation also showed a moderate Ca(2+) sensitivity in that in the presence of Ca(2+) complex formation was reduced.
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- Daisuke Funabara
- Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan
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Dyachuk V, Odintsova N. Development of the larval muscle system in the mussel Mytilus trossulus (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Dev Growth Differ 2009; 51:69-79. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169x.2008.01081.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Galler S. Molecular basis of the catch state in molluscan smooth muscles: a catchy challenge. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2008; 29:73-99. [PMID: 19039672 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-008-9149-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2008] [Accepted: 10/18/2008] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The catch state (or 'catch') of molluscan smooth muscles is a passive holding state that occurs after cessation of stimulation. During catch, force and, in particular, resistance to stretch are maintained for long time periods with low (or no) energy consumption at basal intracellular free [Ca2+]. The catch state is initiated by Ca2+-stimulated dephosphorylation of the titin-like protein twitchin and is inhibited by cAMP-dependent phosphorylation of twitchin. In addition, catch is pH sensitive, but the reason for this is unknown. According to a traditional model, catch is due to slower cross-bridge cycles where myosin heads remain longer attached to the actin filaments after force generation, possibly caused by a hindered release of ADP from the myosin heads. However, this model was disproved by recent findings which showed that (i) inhibitors of myosin function, such as vanadate, do not affect catch force; (ii) factors which terminate the catch state do not accelerate myosin head detachment kinetics and (iii) a catch-like high resistance to stretch is still inducible when force development is prevented. Thus, catch probably involves passive linkage structures interconnecting the myofilaments (catch linkages). For example twitchin could (i) tie myosin heads to the thin filaments, (ii) mechanically lock them in a stretch resistant state or (iii) interconnect thick and thin filaments directly. However, it is questionable if these mechanisms are sufficient since twitchin seems to be about 15-times less abundant than myosin. Therefore, in addition, interconnections between thick filaments could exist, which could involve e.g. paramyosin or twitchin. Catch could even involve changes in the compliance of thick filaments. The function of myorod, found specifically in catch muscles in equal abundance with myosin, is not known. The suggestion is made here that catch linkages are present already during active contraction either as ratchet-like elements resisting stretch and not opposing shortening or in some kind of 'standby' mode ready to transform suddenly into the working mode by stretches or after Ca2+ removal following cessation of stimulation.
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- Stefan Galler
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020, Salzburg, Austria.
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