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Steffensen KE, Dawson JF. Actin's C-terminus coordinates actin structural changes and functions. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 2023; 80:313-329. [PMID: 37036084 DOI: 10.1002/cm.21757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 03/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 04/11/2023]
Abstract
Actin is essential to eukaryotic cellular processes. Actin's C-terminus appears to play a direct role in modulating actin's structure and properties, facilitating the binding and function of actin-binding proteins (ABPs). The structural and functional characterization of filamentous actin's C-terminus has been impeded by its inherent flexibility, as well as actin's resistance to crystallization for x-ray diffraction and the historical resolution constraints associated with electron microscopy. Many biochemical studies have established that actin's C-terminus must retain its flexibility and structural integrity to modulate actin's structure and functions. For example, C-terminal structural changes are known to affect nucleotide binding and exchange, as well as propagate actin structural changes throughout extensive allosteric networks, facilitating the binding and function of ABPs. Advances in electron microscopy have resulted in high-resolution structures of filamentous actin, providing insights into subtle structural changes that are mediated by actin's C-terminus. Here, we review existing knowledge establishing the importance of actin's C-terminus within actin structural changes and functions and discuss how modern structural characterization techniques provide the tools to understand the role of actin's C-terminus in cellular processes.
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- Karl E Steffensen
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Pospich S, Sweeney HL, Houdusse A, Raunser S. High-resolution structures of the actomyosin-V complex in three nucleotide states provide insights into the force generation mechanism. eLife 2021; 10:e73724. [PMID: 34812732 PMCID: PMC8735999 DOI: 10.7554/elife.73724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The molecular motor myosin undergoes a series of major structural transitions during its force-producing motor cycle. The underlying mechanism and its coupling to ATP hydrolysis and actin binding are only partially understood, mostly due to sparse structural data on actin-bound states of myosin. Here, we report 26 high-resolution cryo-EM structures of the actomyosin-V complex in the strong-ADP, rigor, and a previously unseen post-rigor transition state that binds the ATP analog AppNHp. The structures reveal a high flexibility of myosin in each state and provide valuable insights into the structural transitions of myosin-V upon ADP release and binding of AppNHp, as well as the actomyosin interface. In addition, they show how myosin is able to specifically alter the structure of F-actin.
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- Sabrina Pospich
- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular PhysiologyDortmundGermany
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the Myology Institute, University of FloridaGainesvilleUnited States
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- Structural Motility, Institut Curie, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueParisFrance
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- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular PhysiologyDortmundGermany
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Robert-Paganin J, Pylypenko O, Kikuti C, Sweeney HL, Houdusse A. Force Generation by Myosin Motors: A Structural Perspective. Chem Rev 2019; 120:5-35. [PMID: 31689091 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Generating force and movement is essential for the functions of cells and organisms. A variety of molecular motors that can move on tracks within cells have evolved to serve this role. How these motors interact with their tracks and how that, in turn, leads to the generation of force and movement is key to understanding the cellular roles that these motor-track systems serve. This review is focused on the best understood of these systems, which is the molecular motor myosin that moves on tracks of filamentous (F-) actin. The review highlights both the progress and the limits of our current understanding of how force generation can be controlled by F-actin-myosin interactions. What has emerged are insights they may serve as a framework for understanding the design principles of a number of types of molecular motors and their interactions with their tracks.
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- Julien Robert-Paganin
- Structural Motility , UMR 144 CNRS/Curie Institute , 26 rue d'ulm , 75258 Paris cedex 05 , France
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- Structural Motility , UMR 144 CNRS/Curie Institute , 26 rue d'ulm , 75258 Paris cedex 05 , France
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- Structural Motility , UMR 144 CNRS/Curie Institute , 26 rue d'ulm , 75258 Paris cedex 05 , France
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- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics and the Myology Institute , University of Florida College of Medicine , PO Box 100267, Gainesville , Florida 32610-0267 , United States
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- Structural Motility , UMR 144 CNRS/Curie Institute , 26 rue d'ulm , 75258 Paris cedex 05 , France
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Sidhu N, Dawson JF. A crosslinked and ribosylated actin trimer does not interact productively with myosin. Biochem Cell Biol 2019; 97:140-147. [DOI: 10.1139/bcb-2018-0082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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A purified F-actin-derived actin trimer that interacts with end-binding proteins did not activate or bind the side-binding protein myosin under rigor conditions. Remodeling of the actin trimer by the binding of gelsolin did not rescue myosin binding, nor did the use of different means of inhibiting the polymerization of the trimer. Our results demonstrate that ADP-ribosylation on all actin subunits of an F-actin-derived trimer inhibits myosin binding and that the binding of DNase-I to the pointed end subunits of a crosslinked trimer also remodels the myosin binding site. Taken together, this work highlights the need for a careful balance between modification of actin subunits and maintaining protein–protein interactions to produce a physiologically relevant short F-actin complex.
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- Navneet Sidhu
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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Gurel PS, Kim LY, Ruijgrok PV, Omabegho T, Bryant Z, Alushin GM. Cryo-EM structures reveal specialization at the myosin VI-actin interface and a mechanism of force sensitivity. eLife 2017; 6:e31125. [PMID: 29199952 PMCID: PMC5762158 DOI: 10.7554/elife.31125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2017] [Accepted: 12/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Despite extensive scrutiny of the myosin superfamily, the lack of high-resolution structures of actin-bound states has prevented a complete description of its mechanochemical cycle and limited insight into how sequence and structural diversification of the motor domain gives rise to specialized functional properties. Here we present cryo-EM structures of the unique minus-end directed myosin VI motor domain in rigor (4.6 Å) and Mg-ADP (5.5 Å) states bound to F-actin. Comparison to the myosin IIC-F-actin rigor complex reveals an almost complete lack of conservation of residues at the actin-myosin interface despite preservation of the primary sequence regions composing it, suggesting an evolutionary path for motor specialization. Additionally, analysis of the transition from ADP to rigor provides a structural rationale for force sensitivity in this step of the mechanochemical cycle. Finally, we observe reciprocal rearrangements in actin and myosin accompanying the transition between these states, supporting a role for actin structural plasticity during force generation by myosin VI.
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- Pinar S Gurel
- Laboratory of Structural Biophysics and MechanobiologyThe Rockefeller UniversityNew YorkUnited States
- Cell Biology and Physiology CenterNational Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute, National Institutes of HealthBethesdaUnited States
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- Cell Biology and Physiology CenterNational Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute, National Institutes of HealthBethesdaUnited States
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- Department of BioengineeringStanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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- Department of BioengineeringStanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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- Department of BioengineeringStanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
- Department of Structural BiologyStanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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- Laboratory of Structural Biophysics and MechanobiologyThe Rockefeller UniversityNew YorkUnited States
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Grintsevich EE, Yesilyurt HG, Rich SK, Hung RJ, Terman JR, Reisler E. F-actin dismantling through a redox-driven synergy between Mical and cofilin. Nat Cell Biol 2016; 18:876-85. [PMID: 27454820 PMCID: PMC4966907 DOI: 10.1038/ncb3390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2016] [Accepted: 06/21/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Numerous cellular functions depend on actin filament (F-actin) disassembly. The
best-characterized disassembly proteins, the ADF/cofilins/twinstar, sever filaments and
recycle monomers to promote actin assembly. Cofilin is also a relatively weak actin
disassembler, posing questions about mechanisms of cellular F-actin destabilization. Here
we uncover a key link to targeted F-actin disassembly by finding that F-actin is
efficiently dismantled through a post-translational-mediated synergism between cofilin and
the actin-oxidizing enzyme Mical. We find that Mical-mediated oxidation of actin improves
cofilin binding to filaments, where their combined effect dramatically accelerates F-actin
disassembly compared to either effector alone. This synergism is also necessary and
sufficient for F-actin disassembly in vivo, magnifying the effects of
both Mical and cofilin on cellular remodeling, axon guidance, and Semaphorin/Plexin
repulsion. Mical and cofilin, therefore, form a Redox-dependent synergistic pair that
promotes F-actin instability by rapidly dismantling F-actin and generating
post-translationally modified actin that has altered assembly properties.
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- Elena E Grintsevich
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.,Molecular Biology Institute, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Callahan DM, Miller MS, Sweeny AP, Tourville TW, Slauterbeck JR, Savage PD, Maugan DW, Ades PA, Beynnon BD, Toth MJ. Muscle disuse alters skeletal muscle contractile function at the molecular and cellular levels in older adult humans in a sex-specific manner. J Physiol 2014; 592:4555-73. [PMID: 25038243 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.279034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Physical inactivity that accompanies ageing and disease may hasten disability by reducing skeletal muscle contractility. To characterize skeletal muscle functional adaptations to muscle disuse, we compared contractile performance at the molecular, cellular and whole‐muscle levels in healthy active older men and women (n = 15) and inactive older men and women with advanced‐stage, symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA) (n = 16). OA patients showed reduced (P < 0.01) knee extensor function. At the cellular level, single muscle fibre force production was reduced in OA patients in myosin heavy chain (MHC) I and IIA fibres (both P < 0.05) and differences in IIA fibres persisted after adjustments for fibre cross‐sectional area (P < 0.05). Although no group differences in contractile velocity or power output were found for any fibre type, sex was found to modify the effect of OA, with a reduction in MHC IIA power output and a trend towards reduced shortening velocity in women, but increases in both variables in men (P < 0.05 and P = 0.07, respectively). At the molecular level, these adaptations in MHC IIA fibre function were explained by sex‐specific differences (P ≤ 0.05) in myosin–actin cross‐bridge kinetics. Additionally, cross‐bridge kinetics were slowed in MHC I fibres in OA patients (P < 0.01), attributable entirely to reductions in women with knee OA (P < 0.05), a phenotype that could be reproduced in vitro by chemical modification of protein thiol residues. Our results identify molecular and cellular functional adaptations in skeletal muscle that may contribute to reduced physical function with knee OA‐associated muscle disuse, with sex‐specific differences that may explain a greater disposition towards disability in women.
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- Damien M Callahan
- Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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Barreiro E. Protein carbonylation and muscle function in COPD and other conditions. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2014; 33:219-236. [PMID: 24167039 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2013] [Revised: 06/17/2013] [Accepted: 06/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
Skeletal muscle, the most abundant tissue in mammals, is essential for any activity in life. Muscle dysfunction is a common systemic manifestation in highly prevalent conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cancer cachexia, and sepsis. It has a significant impact on exercise tolerance, thus worsening the patients' quality of life and survival. Among several factors, oxidative stress is a major player in the etiology of skeletal muscle dysfunction associated with those conditions. Whereas low levels of oxidants are absolutely required for normal cell adaptation, high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) alter the function and structure of molecules such as proteins, DNA, and lipids. Specifically, protein carbonylation, a common variety of protein oxidation, was shown to alter the function of key enzymes and structural proteins involved in muscle contractile performance. Moreover, increased levels of ROS may also activate proteolytic systems, thus leading to enhanced protein breakdown in several models. In the current review, the specific modifications induced by carbonylation in protein structure and function in muscles have been described. Furthermore, the potential role of ROS in the activation of proteolytic systems in skeletal muscles is also discussed. The review summarizes the effects of protein carbonylation on muscles in several models and conditions such as COPD, disuse muscle atrophy, cancer cachexia, sepsis, and aging. Future research should focus on the elucidation of the specific protein sites modified by ROS in these muscles using redox proteomics analyses and on the assessment of the consequent alterations in protein function and stability.
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- Esther Barreiro
- Pulmonology Department-Muscle Research, Respiratory System Unit (URMAR), Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM)-Hospital del Mar, Department of Experimental, Health Sciences (CEXS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona (PRBB), Dr. Aiguader, 88, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Bunyola, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
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Castro JP, Jung T, Grune T, Almeida H. Actin carbonylation: from cell dysfunction to organism disorder. J Proteomics 2013; 92:171-80. [PMID: 23684956 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2013.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2012] [Revised: 05/03/2013] [Accepted: 05/06/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Protein carbonylation is an important event in the context of proteostasis because of its frequency, non-enzymatic nature and irreversible effects. The carbonylation of proteins disturbs their function and leads to protein aggregates, which may precede cellular senescence and cell death. Actin, an evolutionarily conserved cytoskeletal protein that is involved in important cellular processes, is one of the proteins most susceptible to carbonylation. Conditions resulting in oxidative stress are likely to lead to its carbonylation, loss of function and aggregate formation. In this review, we summarise actin susceptibility to carbonylation, as verified in cell free extracts, cell lines and animal models, and review its fate through the activation of cell mechanisms aimed at removing damaged proteins. Their insufficient activity may underlie age-related diseases and the ageing process. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Posttranslational Protein modifications in biology and Medicine.
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- José Pedro Castro
- Departamento de Biologia Experimental, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal; IBMC-Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal; Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Dornburger Str. 24, 07743 Jena, Germany
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Behrmann E, Müller M, Penczek PA, Mannherz HG, Manstein DJ, Raunser S. Structure of the rigor actin-tropomyosin-myosin complex. Cell 2012; 150:327-38. [PMID: 22817895 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.05.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 267] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2012] [Revised: 03/13/2012] [Accepted: 05/20/2012] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Regulation of myosin and filamentous actin interaction by tropomyosin is a central feature of contractile events in muscle and nonmuscle cells. However, little is known about molecular interactions within the complex and the trajectory of tropomyosin movement between its "open" and "closed" positions on the actin filament. Here, we report the 8 Å resolution structure of the rigor (nucleotide-free) actin-tropomyosin-myosin complex determined by cryo-electron microscopy. The pseudoatomic model of the complex, obtained from fitting crystal structures into the map, defines the large interface involving two adjacent actin monomers and one tropomyosin pseudorepeat per myosin contact. Severe forms of hereditary myopathies are linked to mutations that critically perturb this interface. Myosin binding results in a 23 Å shift of tropomyosin along actin. Complex domain motions occur in myosin, but not in actin. Based on our results, we propose a structural model for the tropomyosin-dependent modulation of myosin binding to actin.
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- Elmar Behrmann
- Department of Physical Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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The field of mechanobiology has witnessed an explosive growth over the past several years as interest has greatly increased in understanding how mechanical forces are transduced by cells and how cells migrate, adhere and generate traction. Actin, a highly abundant and anomalously conserved protein, plays a large role in forming the dynamic cytoskeleton that is so essential for cell form, motility and mechanosensitivity. While the actin filament (F-actin) has been viewed as dynamic in terms of polymerization and depolymerization, new results suggest that F-actin itself may function as a highly dynamic tension sensor. This property may help explain the unusual conservation of actin's sequence, as well as shed further light on actin's essential role in structures from sarcomeres to stress fibers.
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- Vitold E Galkin
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0733, USA
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Noguchi TQP, Komori T, Umeki N, Demizu N, Ito K, Iwane AH, Tokuraku K, Yanagida T, Uyeda TQP. G146V mutation at the hinge region of actin reveals a myosin class-specific requirement of actin conformations for motility. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:24339-45. [PMID: 22637580 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.321752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The G146V mutation in actin is dominant lethal in yeast. G146V actin filaments bind cofilin only minimally, presumably because cofilin binding requires the large and small actin domains to twist with respect to one another around the hinge region containing Gly-146, and the mutation inhibits that twisting motion. A number of studies have suggested that force generation by myosin also requires actin filaments to undergo conformational changes. This prompted us to examine the effects of the G146V mutation on myosin motility. When compared with wild-type actin filaments, G146V filaments showed a 78% slower gliding velocity and a 70% smaller stall force on surfaces coated with skeletal heavy meromyosin. In contrast, the G146V mutation had no effect on either gliding velocity or stall force on myosin V surfaces. Kinetic analyses of actin-myosin binding and ATPase activity indicated that the weaker affinity of actin filaments for myosin heads carrying ADP, as well as reduced actin-activated ATPase activity, are the cause of the diminished motility seen with skeletal myosin. Interestingly, the G146V mutation disrupted cooperative binding of myosin II heads to actin filaments. These data suggest that myosin-induced conformational changes in the actin filaments, presumably around the hinge region, are involved in mediating the motility of skeletal myosin but not myosin V and that the specific structural requirements for the actin subunits, and thus the mechanism of motility, differ among myosin classes.
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- Taro Q P Noguchi
- Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan.
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Cofilin/ADF proteins play key roles in the dynamics of actin, one of the most abundant and highly conserved eukaryotic proteins. We used cryoelectron microscopy to generate a 9-Å resolution three-dimensional reconstruction of cofilin-decorated actin filaments, the highest resolution achieved for a complex of F-actin with an actin-binding protein. We show that the cofilin-induced change in the filament twist is due to a unique conformation of the actin molecule unrelated to any previously observed state. The changes between the actin protomer in naked F-actin and in the actin-cofilin filament are greater than the conformational changes between G- and F-actin. Our results show the structural plasticity of actin, suggest that other actin-binding proteins may also induce large but different conformational changes, and show that F-actin cannot be described by a single molecular model.
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Screening of novel dominant negative mutant actins using glycine targeted scanning identifies G146V actin that cooperatively inhibits cofilin binding. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2010; 396:1006-11. [PMID: 20471369 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.05.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2010] [Accepted: 05/10/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A number of studies suggested that the structure of actin filaments changes by interaction with actin-binding proteins such as cofilin and myosin, and that the conformational changes of the actin subunits within a filament are cooperative. To understand the functions of these cooperative conformational changes induced by actin-binding proteins, we sought to obtain dominant negative mutant actins impaired in cooperative conformational changes. A series of mutant actin genes in which glycine residues in actin were systematically substituted by valine residues were constructed, and were expressed individually in yeast cells that carry a wild-type endogenous actin gene. Six dominant negative actin mutations were identified on the basis of growth inhibition. Among them, G146V mutation was chosen for further biochemical analysis because the Gly146 residue is located at the strategic hinge position connecting the large and small domains of an actin molecule. We found that G146V actin filaments hardly bind cofilin, consistent with a previous suggestion that cofilin binding causes conformational changes of actin around Gly146 (Galkin et al. [3]). Notably, copolymer that consists of 1:10 mixture of the mutant and wild-type actin molecules showed significantly reduced affinity for cofilin, suggesting that G146V mutant actin affects the conformation of neighboring wild-type actin within a filament, and inhibits cofilin binding.
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Noguchi TQP, Gomibuchi Y, Murakami K, Ueno H, Hirose K, Wakabayashi T, Uyeda TQP. Dominant negative mutant actins identified in flightless Drosophila can be classified into three classes. J Biol Chem 2009; 285:4337-47. [PMID: 19933578 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.059881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Strongly dominant negative mutant actins, identified by An and Mogami (An, H. S., and Mogami, K. (1996) J. Mol. Biol. 260, 492-505), in the indirect flight muscle of Drosophila impaired its flight, even when three copies of the wild-type gene were present. Understanding how these strongly dominant negative mutant actins disrupt the function of wild-type actin would provide useful information about the molecular mechanism by which actin functions in vivo. Here, we expressed and purified six of these strongly dominant negative mutant actins in Dictyostelium and classified them into three groups based on their biochemical phenotypes. The first group, G156D, G156S, and G268D actins, showed impaired polymerization and a tendency to aggregate under conditions favoring polymerization. G63D actin of the second group was also unable to polymerize but, unlike those in the first group, remained soluble under polymerizing conditions. Kinetic analyses using G63D actin or G63D actin.gelsolin complexes suggested that the pointed end surface is defective, which would alter the polymerization kinetics of wild-type actin when mixed and could affect formation of thin filament structures in indirect flight muscle. The third group, R95C and E226K actins, was normal in terms of polymerization, but their motility on heavy meromyosin surfaces in the presence of tropomyosin-troponin indicated altered sensitivity to Ca(2+). Cofilaments in which R95C or E226K actins were copolymerized with a 3-fold excess of wild-type actin also showed altered Ca(2+) sensitivity in the presence of tropomyosin-troponin.
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- Taro Q P Noguchi
- Research Institute for Cell Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan
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F-actin structure destabilization and DNase I binding loop: fluctuations mutational cross-linking and electron microscopy analysis of loop states and effects on F-actin. J Mol Biol 2009; 395:544-57. [PMID: 19900461 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2009] [Revised: 10/30/2009] [Accepted: 11/02/2009] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The conformational dynamics of filamentous actin (F-actin) is essential for the regulation and functions of cellular actin networks. The main contribution to F-actin dynamics and its multiple conformational states arises from the mobility and flexibility of the DNase I binding loop (D-loop; residues 40-50) on subdomain 2. Therefore, we explored the structural constraints on D-loop plasticity at the F-actin interprotomer space by probing its dynamic interactions with the hydrophobic loop (H-loop), the C-terminus, and the W-loop via mutational disulfide cross-linking. To this end, residues of the D-loop were mutated to cysteines on yeast actin with a C374A background. These mutants showed no major changes in their polymerization and nucleotide exchange properties compared to wild-type actin. Copper-catalyzed disulfide cross-linking was investigated in equimolar copolymers of cysteine mutants from the D-loop with either wild-type (C374) actin or mutant S265C/C374A (on the H-loop) or mutant F169C/C374A (on the W-loop). Remarkably, all tested residues of the D-loop could be cross-linked to residues 374, 265, and 169 by disulfide bonds, demonstrating the plasticity of the interprotomer region. However, each cross-link resulted in different effects on the filament structure, as detected by electron microscopy and light-scattering measurements. Disulfide cross-linking in the longitudinal orientation produced mostly no visible changes in filament morphology, whereas the cross-linking of D-loop residues >45 to the H-loop, in the lateral direction, resulted in filament disruption and the presence of amorphous aggregates on electron microscopy images. A similar aggregation was also observed upon cross-linking the residues of the D-loop (>41) to residue 169. The effects of disulfide cross-links on F-actin stability were only partially accounted for by the simulations of current F-actin models. Thus, our results present evidence for the high level of conformational plasticity in the interprotomer space and document the link between D-loop interactions and F-actin stability.
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Kim HC, Mofarrahi M, Hussain SNA. Skeletal muscle dysfunction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 2009; 3:637-58. [PMID: 19281080 PMCID: PMC2650609 DOI: 10.2147/copd.s4480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a debilitating disease characterized by inflammation-induced airflow limitation and parenchymal destruction. In addition to pulmonary manifestations, patients with COPD develop systemic problems, including skeletal muscle and other organ-specific dysfunctions, nutritional abnormalities, weight loss, and adverse psychological responses. Patients with COPD often complain of dyspnea on exertion, reduced exercise capacity, and develop a progressive decline in lung function with increasing age. These symptoms have been attributed to increases in the work of breathing and in impairments in gas exchange that result from airflow limitation and dynamic hyperinflation. However, there is mounting evidence to suggest that skeletal muscle dysfunction, independent of lung function, contributes significantly to reduced exercise capacity and poor quality of life in these patients. Limb and ventilatory skeletal muscle dysfunction in COPD patients has been attributed to a myriad of factors, including the presence of low grade systemic inflammatory processes, nutritional depletion, corticosteroid medications, chronic inactivity, age, hypoxemia, smoking, oxidative and nitrosative stresses, protein degradation and changes in vascular density. This review briefly summarizes the contribution of these factors to overall skeletal muscle dysfunction in patients with COPD, with particular attention paid to the latest advances in the field.
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- Ho Cheol Kim
- Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Gyeongsang University Hospital, Jinju, Korea
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Muscle contraction and other forms of cell motility occur as a result of cyclic interactions between myosin molecules and actin filaments. Force generation is generally attributed to ATP-driven structural changes in myosin, whereas a passive role is ascribed to actin. However, some results challenge this view, predicting structural changes in actin during motor activity, e.g., when the actin filaments slide on a myosin-coated surface in vitro. Here, we analyzed statistical properties of the sliding filament paths, allowing us to detect changes of this type. It is interesting to note that evidence for substantial structural changes that led to increased bending flexibility of the filaments was found in phalloidin-stabilized, but not in phalloidin-free, actin filaments. The results are in accordance with the idea that a high-flexibility structural state of actin is a prerequisite for force production, but not the idea that a low-to-high flexibility transition of the actin filament should be an important component of the force-generating step per se. Finally, our data challenge the general view that phalloidin-stabilized filaments behave as native actin filaments in their interaction with myosin. This has important implications, since phalloidin stabilization is a routine procedure in most studies of actomyosin function.
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Miller BM, Trybus KM. Functional effects of nemaline myopathy mutations on human skeletal alpha-actin. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:19379-88. [PMID: 18477565 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m801963200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mutations in human alpha-skeletal actin have been implicated in causing congenital nemaline myopathy, a disease characterized histopathologically by nemaline bodies in skeletal muscle and manifested in the patient as skeletal muscle weakness. Here we investigate the functional effects of three severe nemaline myopathy mutations (V43F, A138P, and R183G) in human alpha-skeletal actin. Wild-type and mutant actins were expressed and purified from the baculovirus/insect cell expression system. The mutations are located in different subdomains of actin; Val-43 is located in a flexible loop of subdomain 2, Ala-138 is near a hydrophobic cleft in the "hinge" region between subdomains 1 and 3, and Arg-183 is near the nucleotide-binding site. None of the three mutations affected the folding of the actin monomer, the velocity at which skeletal myosin moves actin in an in vitro motility assay, or the relative average isometric force supported by F-actin. Defects in fundamental actomyosin interactions are, therefore, unlikely to account for the muscle weakness observed in affected patients. There were, however, significant changes observed in the polymerization kinetics of V43F and A138P and in the rate of nucleotide release for V43F. No detectable defect was found for R183G. If these subtle changes in polymerization observed in vitro are amplified in the context of the sarcomere, it could in principle be one of the primary insults that triggers the development of nemaline myopathy.
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- Becky M Miller
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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Sawaya MR, Kudryashov DS, Pashkov I, Adisetiyo H, Reisler E, Yeates TO. Multiple crystal structures of actin dimers and their implications for interactions in the actin filament. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D: BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2008; 64:454-65. [PMID: 18391412 PMCID: PMC2631129 DOI: 10.1107/s0907444908003351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2007] [Accepted: 01/30/2008] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Multiple crystal structures are reported of cross-linked actin dimers. Interactions that are conserved across crystal structures suggest detailed interactions that are likely to be present in F-actin filaments. The structure of actin in its monomeric form is known at high resolution, while the structure of filamentous F-actin is only understood at considerably lower resolution. Knowing precisely how the monomers of actin fit together would lead to a deeper understanding of the dynamic behavior of the actin filament. Here, a series of crystal structures of actin dimers are reported which were prepared by cross-linking in either the longitudinal or the lateral direction in the filament state. Laterally cross-linked dimers, comprised of monomers belonging to different protofilaments, are found to adopt configurations in crystals that are not related to the native structure of filamentous actin. In contrast, multiple structures of longitudinal dimers consistently reveal the same interface between monomers within a single protofilament. The reappearance of the same longitudinal interface in multiple crystal structures adds weight to arguments that the interface visualized is similar to that in actin filaments. Highly conserved atomic interactions involving residues 199–205 and 287–291 are highlighted.
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- Michael R Sawaya
- UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA
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Reisler E, Egelman EH. Actin Structure and Function: What We Still Do Not Understand. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:36133-7. [DOI: 10.1074/jbc.r700030200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Kozuka J, Yokota H, Arai Y, Ishii Y, Yanagida T. Dynamic polymorphism of actin as activation mechanism for cell motility. Biosystems 2006; 88:273-82. [PMID: 17184905 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2006] [Accepted: 07/20/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Actin filament dynamics are crucial in cell motility. Actin filaments, and their bundles, networks, and gels assemble and disassemble spontaneously according to thermodynamic rules. These dynamically changing structures of actin are harnessed for some of its functions in cells. The actin systems respond to external signals, forces, or environments by biasing the fluctuation of actin assembly structures. In this study, dynamic conformation of actin molecules was studied by monitoring conformational dynamics of actin molecules at the single molecule level in real time. Actin conformation spontaneously fluctuates between multiple conformational states. Regarding myosin motility, the dynamic equilibrium of actin conformation was interpreted as between states that activates and inhibits the motility. The binding of myosin to actin filaments activates myosin motility by shifting the conformational fluctuation of actin towards the state that activates the motility. Thus, the activation mechanism based on thermal fluctuation is suggested at molecular level as well as at cellular level.
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- Jun Kozuka
- Formation of Soft Nanomachines Project, Core Research for Evolution Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
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Hegyi G, Belágyi J. Intermonomer cross-linking of F-actin alters the dynamics of its interaction with H-meromyosin in the weak-binding state. FEBS J 2006; 273:1896-905. [PMID: 16640554 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05197.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Previous cross-linking studies [Kim E, Bobkova E, Hegyi G, Muhlrad A & Reisler E (2002) Biochemistry 41, 86-93] have shown that site-specific cross-linking among F-actin monomers inhibits the motion and force generation of actomyosin. However, it does not change the steady-state ATPase parameters of actomyosin. These apparently contradictory findings have been attributed to the uncoupling of force generation from other processes of actomyosin interaction as a consequence of reduced flexibility at the interface between actin subdomains-1 and -2. In this study, we use EPR spectroscopy to investigate the effects of cross-linking constituent monomers upon the molecular dynamics of the F-actin complex. We show that cross-linking reduces the rotational mobility of an attached probe. It is consistent with the filaments becoming more rigid. Addition of heavy meromyosin (HMM) to the cross-linked filaments further restricts the rotational mobility of the probe. The effect of HMM on the actin filaments is highly cooperative: even a 1 : 10 molar ratio of HMM to actin strongly restricts the dynamics of the filaments. More interesting results are obtained when nucleotides are also added. In the presence of HMM and ADP, similar strongly reduced mobility of the probe was found than in a rigor state. In the presence of adenosine 5'[betagamma-imido] triphosphate (AMPPNP), a nonhydrolyzable analogue of ATP, weak binding of HMM to either cross-linked or native F-actin increases probe mobility. By contrast, weak binding by the HMM/ADP/AlF4 complex has different effects upon the two systems. This protein-nucleotide complex increases probe mobility in native actin filaments, as does HMM + AMPPNP. However, its addition to cross-linked filaments leaves probe mobility as constrained as in the rigor state. These findings suggest that the dynamic change upon weak binding by HMM/ADP/AlF4 which is inhibited by cross-linking is essential to the proper mechanical behaviour of the filaments during movement.
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- György Hegyi
- Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest , Hungary.
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Siddique MSP, Mogami G, Miyazaki T, Katayama E, Uyeda TQP, Suzuki M. Cooperative structural change of actin filaments interacting with activated myosin motor domain, detected with copolymers of pyrene-labeled actin and acto-S1 chimera protein. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 337:1185-91. [PMID: 16226711 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.09.159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2005] [Accepted: 09/26/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Acto-S1 chimera proteins CP24 and CP18 carry the entire actin sequence, inserted in loop 2 of the motor domain of Dictyostelium myosin II, and have MgATPase activity close to that of natural Dictyostelium actomyosin [M.S.P. Siddique, T. Miyazaki, E. Katayama, T.Q.P. Uyeda, M. Suzuki, Evidence against essential roles of subdomain 1 of actin in actomyosin sliding movements, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 332 (2005) 474-481]. Here, we examined and detected cooperative structural change of actin filaments accompanying interaction with myosin motor domain in the presence of ATP using copolymer filaments consisting of pyrene-labeled skeletal actin (SA) and either CP24 or CP18. Upon addition of ATP, the fluorescence intensity increased over the range from 380 to 480nm using 365-nm excitation. The relative increases of fluorescence intensity at 390nm were 14%, 46%, and 77% for the copolymer filaments with the CP24 to actin molar ratios of 0.0625, 0.143, and 0.333, respectively, and demonstrated a sigmoid behavior. Stoichiometric analysis indicates that each CP24 molecule appears to affect four actin molecules, on average, in SA-CP24 copolymers, and each CP18 molecule appears to affect three actin molecules in SA-CP18 copolymers.
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- Md Shahjahan P Siddique
- Department of Materials Processing, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama 6-6-02, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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Kudryashov DS, Sawaya MR, Adisetiyo H, Norcross T, Hegyi G, Reisler E, Yeates TO. The crystal structure of a cross-linked actin dimer suggests a detailed molecular interface in F-actin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:13105-10. [PMID: 16141336 PMCID: PMC1196358 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0506429102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The 2.5-A resolution crystal structure is reported for an actin dimer, composed of two protomers cross-linked along the longitudinal (or vertical) direction of the F-actin filament. The crystal structure provides an atomic resolution view of a molecular interface between actin protomers, which we argue represents a near-native interaction in the F-actin filament. The interaction involves subdomains 3 and 4 from distinct protomers. The atomic positions in the interface visualized differ by 5-10 A from those suggested by previous models of F-actin. Such differences fall within the range of uncertainties allowed by the fiber diffraction and electron microscopy methods on which previous models have been based. In the crystal, the translational arrangement of protomers lacks the slow twist found in native filaments. A plausible model of F-actin can be constructed by reintroducing the known filament twist, without disturbing significantly the interface observed in the actin dimer crystal.
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- Dmitry S Kudryashov
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Barreiro E, Gea J, Di Falco M, Kriazhev L, James S, Hussain SNA. Protein Carbonyl Formation in the Diaphragm. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2005; 32:9-17. [PMID: 15472139 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2004-0021oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Although protein carbonyl formation is an index of oxidative stress in skeletal muscles, the exact proteins, which undergo oxidation in these muscles, remain unknown. We used 2D electrophoresis, immunoblotting, and mass spectrometry to identify carbonylated proteins in the diaphragm in septic animals. Rats were injected with saline (control) or Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and killed after various intervals. Diaphragm protein carbonylation increased significantly and peaked 12 h after LPS injection, and it was localized both inside muscle fibers and in blood vessels supplying muscle fibers. Aldolase A, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, enolase 3beta, mitochondrial and cytosolic creatine kinases, alpha-actin, carbonic anyhdrase III, and ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase were all carbonylated in septic rat diaphragms. In addition, we found significant negative correlations between the intensity of carbonylation and creatine kinase and aldolase activities. We conclude that glycolysis, ATP production, CO2 hydration, and contractile proteins are targeted by oxygen radicals inside the diaphragm during sepsis.
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- Esther Barreiro
- Critical Care Division, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, and Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Hatori K, Tamura T, Kawano K, Tamura M, Honda H. Significance of kinetic degrees of freedom in operation of the actomyosin motor. Biosystems 2004; 78:149-53. [PMID: 15555765 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2004.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2004] [Revised: 08/31/2004] [Accepted: 09/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The actomyosin motor as a principal functional component of cell motility is highly coordinated in regulating the participating molecular components. At the same time, it has to be flexible and plastic enough to accommodate itself to a wide variety of operational conditions. We prepared two different types of actomyosin systems. One is a natural intact actomyosin system with no artificial constraint on the kinetic degrees of freedom of the actin filaments, and the other is a regulated one with actin filaments supplemented by intra- and intermolecular crosslinking to suppress the kinetic degrees of freedom to a certain extent. Crosslinked actomyosin systems were found to remain almost insensitive to calcium regulation even when intact troponin-tropomyosin regulatory component was incorporated. Both the ATPase and the motile activities of the actin filaments sliding on myosin molecules were markedly lowered by the crosslinking. In contrast, once the crosslinking was cleaved, both properties returned to the normal as with intact actomyosin systems.
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- Kuniyuki Hatori
- Department of BioEngineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka 940-2188, Japan.
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Coureux PD, Sweeney HL, Houdusse A. Three myosin V structures delineate essential features of chemo-mechanical transduction. EMBO J 2004; 23:4527-37. [PMID: 15510214 PMCID: PMC533045 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 225] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2004] [Accepted: 10/05/2004] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The molecular motor, myosin, undergoes conformational changes in order to convert chemical energy into force production. Based on kinetic and structural considerations, we assert that three crystal forms of the myosin V motor delineate the conformational changes that myosin motors undergo upon detachment from actin. First, a motor domain structure demonstrates that nucleotide-free myosin V adopts a specific state (rigor-like) that is not influenced by crystal packing. A second structure reveals an actomyosin state that favors rapid release of ADP, and differs from the rigor-like state by a P-loop rearrangement. Comparison of these structures with a third structure, a 2.0 angstroms resolution structure of the motor bound to an ATP analog, illuminates the structural features that provide communication between the actin interface and nucleotide-binding site. Paramount among these is a region we name the transducer, which is composed of the seven-stranded beta-sheet and associated loops and linkers. Reminiscent of the beta-sheet distortion of the F1-ATPase, sequential distortion of this transducer region likely controls sequential release of products from the nucleotide pocket during force generation.
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- Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, A700 Richards Bldg, 3700 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6085, USA. Tel.: +1 215 898 0486; Fax: +1 215 898 0475; E-mail:
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- Structural Motility, Institut Curie CNRS, UMR144, Paris, France
- Structural Motility, Institut Curie CNRS, UMR 144, 26 rue d'ULM, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France. Tel.: +33 1 4234 6395; Fax: +33 1 4234 6382; E-mail:
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The epoch-making techniques for manipulating a single myosin molecule have recently been developed, and the unitary mechanical reactions of a single actomyosin, muscle motor molecule, are directly measured. The data show that the unitary mechanical step during sliding along an actin filament of approximately 5.5 nm, but groups of two to five rapid steps in succession produce displacements of approximately 11-30 nm. The instances of multiple stepping are produced by single myosin heads during one biochemical cycle of ATP hydrolysis. Thus, the coupling between ATP hydrolysis cycle and mechanical step is variable, i.e. loose-coupling. Such a unique operation of actomyosin molecules is different from that of man-made machines, and most likely explains the flexible and effective mechanisms of molecular machines in the biosystems.
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- Kazuo Kitamura
- Single Molecule Processes Project, ICORP, JST, 2-4-14 Senba-higashi, Mino, Osaka 562-0035, Japan.
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Moraczewska J, Gruszczynska-Biegala J, Redowicz MJ, Khaitlina SY, Strzelecka-Golaszewska H. The DNase-I binding loop of actin may play a role in the regulation of actin-myosin interaction by tropomyosin/troponin. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:31197-204. [PMID: 15159400 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m400794200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Various lines of evidence suggest that communication between tropomyosin and myosin in the regulation of vertebrate-striated muscle contraction involves yet unknown changes in actin conformation. Possible participation of loop 38-52 in this communication has recently been questioned based on unimpaired Ca(2+) regulation of myosin interaction, in the presence of the tropomyosin-troponin complex, with actin cleaved by subtilisin between Met(47) and Gly(48). We have compared the effects of actin cleavage by subtilisin and by protease ECP32, between Gly(42) and Val(43), on its interaction with myosin S1 in the presence and absence of tropomyosin or tropomyosin-troponin. Both individual modifications reduced activation of S1 ATPase by actin to a similar extent. The effect of ECP cleavage, but not of subtilisin cleavage, was partially reversed by stabilization of interprotomer contacts with phalloidin, indicating different pathways of signal transmission from the N- and C-terminal parts of loop 38-52 to myosin binding sites. ECP cleavage diminished the affinity to tropomyosin and reduced its inhibition of acto-S1 ATPase at low S1 concentrations, but increased the tropomyosin-mediated cooperative enhancement of the ATPase by S1 binding to actin. These effects were reversed by phalloidin. Subtilisin-cleaved actin more closely resembled unmodified actin than the ECP-modified actin. Limited proteolysis of the modified and unmodified F-actins revealed an allosteric effect of ECP cleavage on the conformation of the actin subdomain 4 region that is presumably involved in tropomyosin binding. Our results point to a possible role of the N-terminal part of loop 38-52 of actin in communication between tropomyosin and myosin through changes in actin structure.
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- Joanna Moraczewska
- Department of Muscle Biochemistry, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, 3 Pasteur Street, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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Griffin M, Casadio R, Bergamini CM. Transglutaminases: nature's biological glues. Biochem J 2002; 368:377-96. [PMID: 12366374 PMCID: PMC1223021 DOI: 10.1042/bj20021234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 756] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2002] [Revised: 09/12/2002] [Accepted: 10/04/2002] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Transglutaminases (Tgases) are a widely distributed group of enzymes that catalyse the post-translational modification of proteins by the formation of isopeptide bonds. This occurs either through protein cross-linking via epsilon-(gamma-glutamyl)lysine bonds or through incorporation of primary amines at selected peptide-bound glutamine residues. The cross-linked products, often of high molecular mass, are highly resistant to mechanical challenge and proteolytic degradation, and their accumulation is found in a number of tissues and processes where such properties are important, including skin, hair, blood clotting and wound healing. However, deregulation of enzyme activity generally associated with major disruptions in cellular homoeostatic mechanisms has resulted in these enzymes contributing to a number of human diseases, including chronic neurodegeneration, neoplastic diseases, autoimmune diseases, diseases involving progressive tissue fibrosis and diseases related to the epidermis of the skin. In the present review we detail the structural and regulatory features important in mammalian Tgases, with particular focus on the ubiquitous type 2 tissue enzyme. Physiological roles and substrates are discussed with a view to increasing and understanding the pathogenesis of the diseases associated with transglutaminases. Moreover the ability of these enzymes to modify proteins and act as biological glues has not gone unnoticed by the commercial sector. As a consequence, we have included some of the present and future biotechnological applications of this increasingly important group of enzymes.
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- Martin Griffin
- Department of Life Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, U.K
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