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Buonfiglio V, Pertici I, Marcello M, Morotti I, Caremani M, Reconditi M, Linari M, Fanelli D, Lombardi V, Bianco P. Force and kinetics of fast and slow muscle myosin determined with a synthetic sarcomere-like nanomachine. Commun Biol 2024; 7:361. [PMID: 38521889 PMCID: PMC10960843 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06033-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/25/2024] Open
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Myosin II is the muscle molecular motor that works in two bipolar arrays in each thick filament of the striated (skeletal and cardiac) muscle, converting the chemical energy into steady force and shortening by cyclic ATP-driven interactions with the nearby actin filaments. Different isoforms of the myosin motor in the skeletal muscles account for the different functional requirements of the slow muscles (primarily responsible for the posture) and fast muscles (responsible for voluntary movements). To clarify the molecular basis of the differences, here the isoform-dependent mechanokinetic parameters underpinning the force of slow and fast muscles are defined with a unidimensional synthetic nanomachine powered by pure myosin isoforms from either slow or fast rabbit skeletal muscle. Data fitting with a stochastic model provides a self-consistent estimate of all the mechanokinetic properties of the motor ensemble including the motor force, the fraction of actin-attached motors and the rate of transition through the attachment-detachment cycle. The achievements in this paper set the stage for any future study on the emergent mechanokinetic properties of an ensemble of myosin molecules either engineered or purified from mutant animal models or human biopsies.
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy.
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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Ma PQ, Huang FW, Xie YQ, Li HR, Li HD, Ye BC, Yin BC. Universal DNA-Based Sensing Toolbox for Programming Cell Functions. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:28224-28232. [PMID: 38108623 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c11232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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By recombining natural cell signaling systems and further reprogramming cell functions, use of genetically engineered cells and bacteria as therapies is an innovative emerging concept. However, the inherent properties and structures of the natural signal sensing and response pathways constrain further development. We present a universal DNA-based sensing toolbox on the cell surface to endow new signal sensing abilities for cells, control cell states, and reprogram multiple cell functions. The sensing toolbox contains a triangular-prismatic-shaped DNA origami framework and a sensing core anchored inside the internal confined space to enhance the specificity and efficacy of the toolbox. As a proof of principle, the sensing toolbox uses the customizable sensing core with signal sensing switches and converters to recognize unconventional signal inputs, deliver functional components to cells, and then control cell responses, including specific tumor cell death, immune cell disinhibition and adhesion, and bacterial expression. This work expands the diversity of cell sensing signals and reprograms biological functions by constructing nanomechanical-natural hybrid cells, providing new strategies for engineering cells and bacteria in diagnosis and treatment applications.
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- Pei-Qiang Ma
- Lab of Biosystem and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Lab of Biosystem and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Lab of Biosystem and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Lab of Biosystem and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Lab of Biosystem and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Lab of Biosystem and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
- Institute of Engineering Biology and Health, Collaborative Innovation Center of Yangtze River Delta Region Green Pharmaceuticals, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310014, China
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- Lab of Biosystem and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China
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Walter F, Seydewitz R, Mitterbach P, Siebert T, Böl M. On a three-dimensional model for the description of the passive characteristics of skeletal muscle tissue. Biomech Model Mechanobiol 2023; 22:1499-1514. [PMID: 36550242 PMCID: PMC10511390 DOI: 10.1007/s10237-022-01664-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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In this work, a three-dimensional model was developed to describe the passive mechanical behaviour of anisotropic skeletal muscle tissue. To validate the model, orientation-dependent axial ([Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]) and semi-confined compression experiments (mode I, II, III) were performed on soleus muscle tissue from rabbits. In the latter experiments, specimen deformation is prescribed in the loading direction and prevented in an additional spatial direction, fibre compression at [Formula: see text] (mode I), fibre elongation at [Formula: see text] (mode II) and a neutral state of the fibres at [Formula: see text] where their length is kept constant (mode III). Overall, the model can adequately describe the mechanical behaviour with a relatively small number of model parameters. The stiffest tissue response during orientation-dependent axial compression ([Formula: see text] kPa) occurs when the fibres are oriented perpendicular to the loading direction ([Formula: see text]) and are thus stretched during loading. Semi-confined compression experiments yielded the stiffest tissue ([Formula: see text] kPa) in mode II when the muscle fibres are stretched. The extensive data set collected in this study allows to study the different error measures depending on the deformation state or the combination of deformation states.
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- Fabian Walter
- Institute of Mechanics and Adaptronics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, D-38106, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute of Mechanics and Adaptronics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, D-38106, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, NLD-5612, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Sport and Motion Science, University of Stuttgart, D-70569, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Mechanics and Adaptronics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, D-38106, Braunschweig, Germany.
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Pertici I, Bongini L, Caremani M, Reconditi M, Linari M, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Bianco P. Matching Mechanics and Energetics of Muscle Contraction Suggests Unconventional Chemomechanical Coupling during the Actin-Myosin Interaction. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:12324. [PMID: 37569700 PMCID: PMC10418673 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241512324] [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: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2023] Open
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The mechanical performances of the vertebrate skeletal muscle during isometric and isotonic contractions are interfaced with the corresponding energy consumptions to define the coupling between mechanical and biochemical steps in the myosin-actin energy transduction cycle. The analysis is extended to a simplified synthetic nanomachine in which eight HMM molecules purified from fast mammalian skeletal muscle are brought to interact with an actin filament in the presence of 2 mM ATP, to assess the emergent properties of a minimum number of motors working in ensemble without the effects of both the higher hierarchical levels of striated muscle organization and other sarcomeric, regulatory and cytoskeleton proteins. A three-state model of myosin-actin interaction is able to predict the known relationships between energetics and transient and steady-state mechanical properties of fast skeletal muscle either in vivo or in vitro only under the assumption that during shortening a myosin motor can interact with two actin sites during one ATP hydrolysis cycle. Implementation of the molecular details of the model should be achieved by exploiting kinetic and structural constraints present in the transients elicited by stepwise perturbations in length or force superimposed on the isometric contraction.
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; (I.P.); (L.B.); (M.C.); (M.R.); (M.L.); (G.P.); (P.B.)
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Vilfan A, Šarlah A. Theoretical efficiency limits and speed-efficiency trade-off in myosin motors. PLoS Comput Biol 2023; 19:e1011310. [PMID: 37478158 PMCID: PMC10395908 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023] Open
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Muscle myosin is a non-processive molecular motor generates mechanical work when cooperating in large ensembles. During its cyle, each individual motor keeps attaching and detaching from the actin filament. The random nature of attachment and detachment inevitably leads to losses and imposes theoretical limits on the energetic efficiency. Here, we numerically determine the theoretical efficiency limit of a classical myosin model with a given number of mechano-chemical states. All parameters that are not bounded by physical limits (like rate limiting steps) are determined by numerical efficiency optimization. We show that the efficiency is limited by the number of states, the stiffness and the rate-limiting kinetic steps. There is a trade-off between speed and efficiency. Slow motors are optimal when most of the available free energy is allocated to the working stroke and the stiffness of their elastic element is high. Fast motors, on the other hand, work better with a lower and asymmetric stiffness and allocate a larger fraction of free energy to the release of ADP. Overall, many features found in myosins coincide with the findings from the model optimization: there are at least 3 bound states, the largest part of the working stroke takes place during the first transition, the ADP affinity is adapted differently in slow and fast myosins and there is an asymmetry in elastic elements.
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- Andrej Vilfan
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Göttingen, Germany
- J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Deng Z, Zhang Y, Yan S. Mechanism of elastic energy storage of honey bee abdominal muscles under stress relaxation. JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2023; 23:7176136. [PMID: 37220090 DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/iead026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Revised: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 04/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Energy storage of passive muscles plays an important part in frequent activities of honey bee abdomens due to the muscle distribution and open circulatory system. However, the elastic energy and mechanical properties of structure in passive muscles remain unclear. In this article, stress relaxation tests on passive muscles from the terga of the honey bee abdomens were performed under different concentrations of blebbistatin and motion parameters. In stress relaxation, the load drop with the rapid and slow stages depending on stretching velocity and stretching length reflects the features of myosin-titin series structure and cross-bridge-actin cyclic connections in muscles. Then a model with 2 parallel modules based on the 2 feature structures in muscles was thus developed. The model described the stress relaxation and stretching of passive muscles from honey bee abdomen well for a good fitting in stress relaxation and verification in loading process. In addition, the stiffness change of cross-bridge under different concentrations of blebbistatin is obtained from the model. We derived the elastic deformation of cross-bridge and the partial derivatives of energy expressions on motion parameters from this model, which accorded the experimental results. This model reveals the mechanism of passive muscles from honey bee abdomens suggesting that the temporary energy storage of cross-bridge in terga muscles under abdomen bending provides potential energy for springback during the periodic abdomen bending of honey bee or other arthropod insects. The finding also provides an experimental and theoretical basis for the novel microstructure and material design of bionic muscle.
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- Zhizhong Deng
- Division of Intelligent and Biomechanical Systems, State Key Laboratory of Tribology in Advanced Equipment, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China
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- Division of Intelligent and Biomechanical Systems, State Key Laboratory of Tribology in Advanced Equipment, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China
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- Division of Intelligent and Biomechanical Systems, State Key Laboratory of Tribology in Advanced Equipment, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China
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Matusovsky OS, Månsson A, Rassier DE. Cooperativity of myosin II motors in the non-regulated and regulated thin filaments investigated with high-speed AFM. J Gen Physiol 2023; 155:213801. [PMID: 36633585 PMCID: PMC9859764 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202213190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Revised: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Skeletal myosins II are non-processive molecular motors that work in ensembles to produce muscle contraction while binding to the actin filament. Although the molecular properties of myosin II are well known, there is still debate about the collective work of the motors: is there cooperativity between myosin motors while binding to the actin filaments? In this study, we use high-speed AFM to evaluate this issue. We observed that the initial binding of small arrays of myosin heads to the non-regulated actin filaments did not affect the cooperative probability of subsequent bindings and did not lead to an increase in the fractional occupancy of the actin binding sites. These results suggest that myosin motors are independent force generators when connected in small arrays, and that the binding of one myosin does not alter the kinetics of other myosins. In contrast, the probability of binding of myosin heads to regulated thin filaments under activating conditions (at high Ca2+ concentration in the presence of 2 μM ATP) was increased with the initial binding of one myosin, leading to a larger occupancy of available binding sites at the next half-helical pitch of the filament. The result suggests that myosin cooperativity is observed over five pseudo-repeats and defined by the activation status of the thin filaments.
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- Oleg S. Matusovsky
- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada,Correspondence to Dilson E. Rassier:
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Baker JE. Thermodynamics and Kinetics of a Binary Mechanical System: Mechanisms of Muscle Contraction. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2022; 38:15905-15916. [PMID: 36520019 PMCID: PMC9798825 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c01622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Revised: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Biological motors function at the interface of biology, physics, and chemistry, and it remains unsettled what rules from which disciplines account for how these motors work. Myosin motors are enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of ATP through a mechanism involving a switch-like myosin structural change (a lever arm rotation) induced by actin binding that generates a small displacement of an actin filament. In muscle, individual myosin motors are widely assumed to function as molecular machines having mechanical properties that resemble those of muscle. In a fundamental departure from this perspective, here, I show that muscle more closely resembles a heat engine with mechanical properties that emerge from the thermodynamics of a myosin motor ensemble. The transformative impact of thermodynamics on our understanding of how a heat engine works guides a parallel transformation in our understanding of how muscle works. I consider the simplest possible model of force generation: a binary mechanical system. I develop the mechanics, energetics, and kinetics of this system and show that a single binding reaction generates force when muscle is held at a fixed length and performs work when muscle is allowed to shorten. This creates a network of thermodynamic binding pathways that resembles many of the characteristic mechanical and energetic behaviors of muscle including the muscle force-velocity relationship, heat output by shortening muscle, four phases of a muscle tension transient, spontaneous oscillatory contractions, and force redevelopment. Analogous to the thermodynamic (Carnot) cycle for a heat engine, isothermal and adiabatic binding and detachment reactions create a thermodynamic cycle for muscle that resembles cardiac pressure-volume loops (i.e., how the heart works). This paper provides an outline for how to re-interpret muscle mechanic data using thermodynamics - an ongoing effort that will continue providing novel insights into how muscle and molecular motors work.
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- Josh E. Baker
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada89557United States
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Månsson A, Rassier DE. Insights into Muscle Contraction Derived from the Effects of Small-Molecular Actomyosin-Modulating Compounds. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232012084. [PMID: 36292937 PMCID: PMC9603234 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232012084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2022] [Revised: 09/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Bottom-up mechanokinetic models predict ensemble function of actin and myosin based on parameter values derived from studies using isolated proteins. To be generally useful, e.g., to analyze disease effects, such models must also be able to predict ensemble function when actomyosin interaction kinetics are modified differently from normal. Here, we test this capability for a model recently shown to predict several physiological phenomena along with the effects of the small molecular compound blebbistatin. We demonstrate that this model also qualitatively predicts effects of other well-characterized drugs as well as varied concentrations of MgATP. However, the effects of one compound, amrinone, are not well accounted for quantitatively. We therefore systematically varied key model parameters to address this issue, leading to the increased amplitude of the second sub-stroke of the power stroke from 1 nm to 2.2 nm, an unchanged first sub-stroke (5.3−5.5 nm), and an effective cross-bridge attachment rate that more than doubled. In addition to better accounting for the effects of amrinone, the modified model also accounts well for normal physiological ensemble function. Moreover, a Monte Carlo simulation-based version of the model was used to evaluate force−velocity data from small myosin ensembles. We discuss our findings in relation to key aspects of actin−myosin operation mechanisms causing a non-hyperbolic shape of the force−velocity relationship at high loads. We also discuss remaining limitations of the model, including uncertainty of whether the cross-bridge elasticity is linear or not, the capability to account for contractile properties of very small actomyosin ensembles (<20 myosin heads), and the mechanism for requirements of a higher cross-bridge attachment rate during shortening compared to during isometric contraction.
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- Alf Månsson
- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +46-708-866243
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- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, QC H2W 1S4, Canada
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Reindl T, Giese S, Greve JN, Reinke PY, Chizhov I, Latham SL, Mulvihill DP, Taft MH, Manstein DJ. Distinct actin–tropomyosin cofilament populations drive the functional diversification of cytoskeletal myosin motor complexes. iScience 2022; 25:104484. [PMID: 35720262 PMCID: PMC9204724 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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The effects of N-terminal acetylation of the high molecular weight tropomyosin isoforms Tpm1.6 and Tpm2.1 and the low molecular weight isoforms Tpm1.12, Tpm3.1, and Tpm4.2 on the actin affinity and the thermal stability of actin-tropomyosin cofilaments are described. Furthermore, we show how the exchange of cytoskeletal tropomyosin isoforms and their N-terminal acetylation affects the kinetic and chemomechanical properties of cytoskeletal actin-tropomyosin-myosin complexes. Our results reveal the extent to which the different actin-tropomyosin-myosin complexes differ in their kinetic and functional properties. The maximum sliding velocity of the actin filament as well as the optimal motor density for continuous unidirectional movement, parameters that were previously considered to be unique and invariant properties of each myosin isoform, are shown to be influenced by the exchange of the tropomyosin isoform and the N-terminal acetylation of tropomyosin. Tpm diversity is largely determined by sequences contributing to the overlap region Global sequence differences are of greater importance than variable exon 6 usage Tpm isoforms confer distinctly altered properties to cytoskeletal myosin motors Cytoskeletal myosins are differentially affected by N-terminal acetylation of Tpm
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Baker JE. A chemical thermodynamic model of motor enzymes unifies chemical-Fx and powerstroke models. Biophys J 2022; 121:1184-1193. [PMID: 35192841 PMCID: PMC9034244 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.02.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Revised: 12/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Molecular motors play a central role in many biological processes, ranging from pumping blood and breathing to growth and wound healing. Through motor-catalyzed chemical reactions, these nanomachines convert the chemical free energy from ATP hydrolysis into two different forms of mechanical work. Motor enzymes perform reversible work, wrev, through an intermediate step in their catalyzed reaction cycle referred to as a working step, and they perform Fx work when they move a distance, x, against a force, F. In a powerstroke model, wrev is performed when the working step stretches a spring within a given motor enzyme. In a chemical-Fx model, wrev is performed in generating a conserved Fx potential defined external to the motor enzyme. It is difficult to find any common ground between these models even though both have been shown to account for mechanochemical measurements of motor enzymes with reasonable accuracy. Here, I show that, by changing one simple assumption in each model, the powerstroke and chemical-Fx model can be reconciled through a chemical thermodynamic model. The formal and experimental justifications for changing these assumptions are presented. The result is a unifying model for mechanochemical coupling in motor enzymes first presented by A.V. Hill in 1938 that is consistent with single-molecule structural and mechanical data.
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- Josh E Baker
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada.
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α-catenin switches between a slip and an asymmetric catch bond with F-actin to cooperatively regulate cell junction fluidity. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1146. [PMID: 35241656 PMCID: PMC8894357 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28779-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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α-catenin is a crucial protein at cell junctions that provides connection between the actin cytoskeleton and the cell membrane. At adherens junctions (AJs), α-catenin forms heterodimers with β-catenin that are believed to resist force on F-actin. Outside AJs, α-catenin forms homodimers that regulates F-actin organization and directly connect the cell membrane to the actin cytoskeleton, but their mechanosensitive properties are inherently unknown. By using ultra-fast laser tweezers we found that a single α-β-catenin heterodimer does not resist force but instead slips along F-actin in the direction of force. Conversely, the action of 5 to 10 α-β-catenin heterodimers together with force applied toward F-actin pointed end engaged a molecular switch in α-catenin, which unfolded and strongly bound F-actin as a cooperative catch bond. Similarly, an α-catenin homodimer formed an asymmetric catch bond with F-actin triggered by protein unfolding under force. Our data suggest that α-catenin clustering together with intracellular tension engage a fluid-to-solid phase transition at the membrane-cytoskeleton interface.
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Caremani M, Reconditi M. Anisotropic Elasticity of the Myosin Motor in Muscle. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23052566. [PMID: 35269709 PMCID: PMC8909946 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23052566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2021] [Revised: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To define the mechanics and energetics of the myosin motor action in muscles, it is mandatory to know fundamental parameters such as the stiffness and the force of the single myosin motor, and the fraction of motors attached during contraction. These parameters can be defined in situ using sarcomere-level mechanics in single muscle fibers under the assumption that the stiffness of a myosin dimer with both motors attached (as occurs in rigor, when all motors are attached) is twice that of a single motor (as occurs in the isometric contraction). We use a mechanical/structural model to identify the constraints that underpin the stiffness of the myosin dimer with both motors attached to actin. By comparing the results of the model with the data in the literature, we conclude that the two-fold axial stiffness of the dimers with both motors attached is justified by a stiffness of the myosin motor that is anisotropic and higher along the axis of the myofilaments. A lower azimuthal stiffness of the motor plays an important role in the complex architecture of the sarcomere by allowing the motors to attach to actin filaments at different azimuthal angles relative to the thick filament.
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- Marco Caremani
- PhysioLab, Università di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy;
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- PhysioLab, Università di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy;
- Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, Università di Firenze, 50134 Firenze, Italy
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +39-055-457-4714
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Ušaj M, Moretto L, Månsson A. Critical Evaluation of Current Hypotheses for the Pathogenesis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:2195. [PMID: 35216312 PMCID: PMC8880276 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23042195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Hereditary hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), due to mutations in sarcomere proteins, occurs in more than 1/500 individuals and is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people. The clinical course exhibits appreciable variability. However, typically, heart morphology and function are normal at birth, with pathological remodeling developing over years to decades, leading to a phenotype characterized by asymmetric ventricular hypertrophy, scattered fibrosis and myofibrillar/cellular disarray with ultimate mechanical heart failure and/or severe arrhythmias. The identity of the primary mutation-induced changes in sarcomere function and how they trigger debilitating remodeling are poorly understood. Support for the importance of mutation-induced hypercontractility, e.g., increased calcium sensitivity and/or increased power output, has been strengthened in recent years. However, other ideas that mutation-induced hypocontractility or non-uniformities with contractile instabilities, instead, constitute primary triggers cannot yet be discarded. Here, we review evidence for and criticism against the mentioned hypotheses. In this process, we find support for previous ideas that inefficient energy usage and a blunted Frank-Starling mechanism have central roles in pathogenesis, although presumably representing effects secondary to the primary mutation-induced changes. While first trying to reconcile apparently diverging evidence for the different hypotheses in one unified model, we also identify key remaining questions and suggest how experimental systems that are built around isolated primarily expressed proteins could be useful.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Linnaeus University, SE-39182 Kalmar, Sweden; (M.U.); (L.M.)
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Marston S. Force Measurements From Myofibril to Filament. Front Physiol 2022; 12:817036. [PMID: 35153821 PMCID: PMC8829514 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.817036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Contractility, the generation of force and movement by molecular motors, is the hallmark of all muscles, including striated muscle. Contractility can be studied at every level of organization from a whole animal to single molecules. Measurements at sub-cellular level are particularly useful since, in the absence of the excitation-contraction coupling system, the properties of the contractile proteins can be directly investigated; revealing mechanistic details not accessible in intact muscle. Moreover, the conditions can be manipulated with ease, for instance changes in activator Ca2+, small molecule effector concentration or phosphorylation levels and introducing mutations. Subcellular methods can be successfully applied to frozen materials and generally require the smallest amount of tissue, thus greatly increasing the range of possible experiments compared with the study of intact muscle and cells. Whilst measurement of movement at the subcellular level is relatively simple, measurement of force is more challenging. This mini review will describe current methods for measuring force production at the subcellular level including single myofibril and single myofilament techniques.
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Stewart TJ, Murthy V, Dugan SP, Baker JE. Velocity of myosin-based actin sliding depends on attachment and detachment kinetics and reaches a maximum when myosin-binding sites on actin saturate. J Biol Chem 2021; 297:101178. [PMID: 34508779 PMCID: PMC8560993 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2021] [Revised: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Molecular motors such as kinesin and myosin often work in groups to generate the directed movements and forces critical for many biological processes. Although much is known about how individual motors generate force and movement, surprisingly, little is known about the mechanisms underlying the macroscopic mechanics generated by multiple motors. For example, the observation that a saturating number, N, of myosin heads move an actin filament at a rate that is influenced by actin–myosin attachment and detachment kinetics is accounted for neither experimentally nor theoretically. To better understand the emergent mechanics of actin–myosin mechanochemistry, we use an in vitro motility assay to measure and correlate the N-dependence of actin sliding velocities, actin-activated ATPase activity, force generation against a mechanical load, and the calcium sensitivity of thin filament velocities. Our results show that both velocity and ATPase activity are strain dependent and that velocity becomes maximized with the saturation of myosin-binding sites on actin at a value that is 40% dependent on attachment kinetics and 60% dependent on detachment kinetics. These results support a chemical thermodynamic model for ensemble motor mechanochemistry and imply molecularly explicit mechanisms within this framework, challenging the assumption of independent force generation.
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- Travis J Stewart
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, USA.
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Kijima S, Delmont TO, Miyazaki U, Gaia M, Endo H, Ogata H. Discovery of Viral Myosin Genes With Complex Evolutionary History Within Plankton. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683294. [PMID: 34163457 PMCID: PMC8215601 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.683294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs) infect diverse eukaryotes and form a group of viruses with capsids encapsulating large genomes. Recent studies are increasingly revealing a spectacular array of functions encoded in their genomes, including genes for energy metabolisms, nutrient uptake, as well as cytoskeleton. Here, we report the discovery of genes homologous to myosins, the major eukaryotic motor proteins previously unrecognized in the virosphere, in environmental genomes of NCLDVs from the surface of the oceans. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that most viral myosins (named "virmyosins") belong to the Imitervirales order, except for one belonging to the Phycodnaviridae family. On the one hand, the phylogenetic positions of virmyosin-encoding Imitervirales are scattered within the Imitervirales. On the other hand, Imitervirales virmyosin genes form a monophyletic group in the phylogeny of diverse myosin sequences. Furthermore, phylogenetic trends for the virmyosin genes and viruses containing them were incongruent. Based on these results, we argue that multiple transfers of myosin homologs have occurred not only from eukaryotes to viruses but also between viruses, supposedly during co-infections of the same host. Like other viruses that use host motor proteins for their intracellular transport or motility, these viruses may use the virally encoded myosins for the intracellular trafficking of giant viral particles.
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- Soichiro Kijima
- Chemical Life Science, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
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- Metabolic Genomics, Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris Saclay, Évry-Courcouronnes, France
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- Chemical Life Science, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
- Laboratory of Marine Environmental Microbiology, Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Metabolic Genomics, Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris Saclay, Évry-Courcouronnes, France
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- Chemical Life Science, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
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- Chemical Life Science, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
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Pertici I, Bianchi G, Bongini L, Cojoc D, Taft MH, Manstein DJ, Lombardi V, Bianco P. Muscle myosin performance measured with a synthetic nanomachine reveals a class-specific Ca 2+ -sensitivity of the frog myosin II isoform. J Physiol 2021; 599:1815-1831. [PMID: 33507554 DOI: 10.1113/jp280976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS A nanomachine made of an ensemble of seven heavy-meromyosin (HMM) fragments of muscle myosin interacting with an actin filament is able to mimic the half-sarcomere generating steady force and constant-velocity shortening. To preserve Ca2+ as a free parameter, the Ca2+ -insensitive gelsolin fragment TL40 is used to attach the correctly oriented actin filament to the laser-trapped bead acting as a force transducer. The new method reveals that the performance of the nanomachine powered by myosin from frog hind-limb muscles depends on [Ca2+ ], an effect mediated by a Ca2+ -binding site in the regulatory light chain of HMM. The Ca2+ -sensitivity is class-specific because the performance of the nanomachine powered by mammalian skeletal muscle myosin is Ca2+ independent. A model simulation is able to interface the nanomachine performance with that of the muscle of origin and provides a molecular explanation of the functional diversity of muscles with different orthologue isoforms of myosin. ABSTRACT An ensemble of seven heavy-meromyosin (HMM) fragments of myosin-II purified from the hindlimb muscles of the frog (Rana esculenta) is used to drive a synthetic nanomachine that pulls an actin filament in the absence of confounding effects of other sarcomeric proteins. In the present version of the nanomachine the +end of the actin filament is attached to the laser trapped bead via the Ca2+ -insensitive gelsolin fragment TL40, making [Ca2+ ] a free parameter. Frog myosin performance in 2 mm ATP is affected by Ca2+ : in 0.1 mm Ca2+ , the isometric steady force (F0 , 15.25 pN) is increased by 50% (P = 0.004) with respect to that in Ca2+ -free solution, the maximum shortening velocity (V0 , 4.6 μm s-1 ) is reduced by 27% (P = 0.46) and the maximum power (Pmax , 7.6 aW) is increased by 21% (P = 0.17). V0 reduction is not significant for the paucity of data at low force, although it is solidified by a similar decrease (33%, P < 0.0001) in the velocity of actin sliding as indicated by an in vitro motility assay (Vf ). The rate of ATP-hydrolysis in solution (φ) exhibits a similar calcium dependence. Ca2+ titration curves for Vf and φ give Kd values of ∼30 μm. All the above mechanical and kinetic parameters are independent of Ca2+ when HMM from rabbit psoas myosin is used, indicating that the Ca2+ -sensitivity is a class-specific property of muscle myosin. A unique multiscale model allows interfacing of the nanomachine performance to that of the muscle of origin and identifies the kinetic steps responsible for the Ca2+ -sensitivity of frog myosin.
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- Irene Pertici
- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Fritz-Hartmann-Centre for Medical Research, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Fritz-Hartmann-Centre for Medical Research, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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Hypothesis: Single Actomyosin Properties Account for Ensemble Behavior in Active Muscle Shortening and Isometric Contraction. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21218399. [PMID: 33182367 PMCID: PMC7664901 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21218399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2020] [Revised: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Muscle contraction results from cyclic interactions between myosin II motors and actin with two sets of proteins organized in overlapping thick and thin filaments, respectively, in a nearly crystalline lattice in a muscle sarcomere. However, a sarcomere contains a huge number of other proteins, some with important roles in muscle contraction. In particular, these include thin filament proteins, troponin and tropomyosin; thick filament proteins, myosin binding protein C; and the elastic protein, titin, that connects the thin and thick filaments. Furthermore, the order and 3D organization of the myofilament lattice may be important per se for contractile function. It is possible to model muscle contraction based on actin and myosin alone with properties derived in studies using single molecules and biochemical solution kinetics. It is also possible to reproduce several features of muscle contraction in experiments using only isolated actin and myosin, arguing against the importance of order and accessory proteins. Therefore, in this paper, it is hypothesized that “single molecule actomyosin properties account for the contractile properties of a half sarcomere during shortening and isometric contraction at almost saturating Ca concentrations”. In this paper, existing evidence for and against this hypothesis is reviewed and new modeling results to support the arguments are presented. Finally, further experimental tests are proposed, which if they corroborate, at least approximately, the hypothesis, should significantly benefit future effective analysis of a range of experimental studies, as well as drug discovery efforts.
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Pertici I, Bianchi G, Bongini L, Lombardi V, Bianco P. A Myosin II-Based Nanomachine Devised for the Study of Ca 2+-Dependent Mechanisms of Muscle Regulation. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E7372. [PMID: 33036217 PMCID: PMC7583892 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21197372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Revised: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The emergent properties of the array arrangement of the molecular motor myosin II in the sarcomere of the striated muscle, the generation of steady force and shortening, can be studied in vitro with a synthetic nanomachine made of an ensemble of eight heavy-meromyosin (HMM) fragments of myosin from rabbit psoas muscle, carried on a piezoelectric nanopositioner and brought to interact with a properly oriented actin filament attached via gelsolin (a Ca2+-regulated actin binding protein) to a bead trapped by dual laser optical tweezers. However, the application of the original version of the nanomachine to investigate the Ca2+-dependent regulation mechanisms of the other sarcomeric (regulatory or cytoskeleton) proteins, adding them one at a time, was prevented by the impossibility to preserve [Ca2+] as a free parameter. Here, the nanomachine is implemented by assembling the bead-attached actin filament with the Ca2+-insensitive gelsolin fragment TL40. The performance of the nanomachine is determined both in the absence and in the presence of Ca2+ (0.1 mM, the concentration required for actin attachment to the bead with gelsolin). The nanomachine exhibits a maximum power output of 5.4 aW, independently of [Ca2+], opening the possibility for future studies of the Ca2+-dependent function/dysfunction of regulatory and cytoskeletal proteins.
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy; (I.P.); (G.B.); (L.B.); (P.B.)
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Kimmig F, Caruel M. Hierarchical modeling of force generation in cardiac muscle. Biomech Model Mechanobiol 2020; 19:2567-2601. [PMID: 32681201 DOI: 10.1007/s10237-020-01357-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2019] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Performing physiologically relevant simulations of the beating heart in clinical context requires to develop detailed models of the microscale force generation process. These models, however, may reveal difficult to implement in practice due to their high computational costs and complex calibration. We propose a hierarchy of three interconnected muscle contraction models-from the more refined to the more simplified-that are rigorously and systematically related to each other, offering a way to select, for a specific application, the model that yields a good trade-off between physiological fidelity, computational cost and calibration complexity. The three model families are compared to the same set of experimental data to systematically assess what physiological indicators can be reproduced or not and how these indicators constrain the model parameters. Finally, we discuss the applicability of these models for heart simulation.
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- François Kimmig
- LMS, CNRS, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France.
- Inria, Inria Saclay-Ile-de-France, Palaiseau, France.
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Wang G, Wang T, Hu Y, Wang J, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Li F, Liu W, Sun Y, Yu B, Kou J. NMMHC IIA triggers neuronal autophagic cell death by promoting F-actin-dependent ATG9A trafficking in cerebral ischemia/reperfusion. Cell Death Dis 2020; 11:428. [PMID: 32513915 PMCID: PMC7280511 DOI: 10.1038/s41419-020-2639-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2019] [Revised: 05/22/2020] [Accepted: 05/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Previous findings have shown that non-muscle myosin heavy-chain IIA (NMMHC IIA) is involved in autophagy induction triggered by starvation in D. melanogaster; however, its functional contribution to neuronal autophagy remains unclear. The aim of this study is to explore the function of NMMHC IIA in cerebral ischemia-induced neuronal autophagy and the underlying mechanism related to autophagy-related gene 9A (ATG9A) trafficking. Functional assays and molecular mechanism studies were used to investigate the role of NMMHC IIA in cerebral ischemia-induced neuronal autophagy in vivo and in vitro. A middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model in mice was used to evaluate the therapeutic effect of blebbistatin, a myosin II ATPase inhibitor. Herein, either depletion or knockdown of NMMHC IIA led to increased cell viability in both primary cultured cortical neurons and pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells exposed to oxygen–glucose deprivation/reoxygenation (OGD/R). In addition, NMMHC IIA and autophagic marker LC3B were upregulated by OGD/R, and inhibition of NMMHC IIA significantly reduced OGD-induced neuronal autophagy. Furthermore, NMMHC IIA-induced autophagy is through its interactions with F-actin and ATG9A in response to OGD/R. The NMMHC IIA–actin interaction contributes to ATG9A trafficking and autophagosome formation. Inhibition of the NMMHC IIA–actin interaction using blebbistatin and the F-actin polymerization inhibitor cytochalasin D significantly suppressed ATG9A trafficking and autophagy induction. Furthermore, blebbistatin significantly improved neurological deficits and infarct volume after ischemic attack in mice, accompanied by ATG9A trafficking and autophagy inhibition. These findings demonstrate neuroprotective effects of NMMHC IIA inhibition on regulating ATG9A trafficking-dependent autophagy activation in the context of cerebral ischemia/reperfusion.
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- Guangyun Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Natural Products, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Pharmacology of Chinese Material Medica, School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 211198, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Products, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Pharmacology of Chinese Material Medica, School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 211198, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Products, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Pharmacology of Chinese Material Medica, School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 211198, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Products, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Pharmacology of Chinese Material Medica, School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 211198, China
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine and Shriners Hospital, Sacramento, CA, 95817, Berkeley, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Products, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Pharmacology of Chinese Material Medica, School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 211198, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Products, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Pharmacology of Chinese Material Medica, School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 211198, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neurodegeneration, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Deparment of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Products, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Resource and Developmemt of Chinese Material Medica, School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 211198, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Products, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of TCM Evaluation and Translational Research, Department of Pharmacology of Chinese Material Medica, School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 211198, China.
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Linari M, Piazzesi G, Pertici I, Dantzig JA, Goldman YE, Lombardi V. Straightening Out the Elasticity of Myosin Cross-Bridges. Biophys J 2020; 118:994-1002. [PMID: 31968230 PMCID: PMC7063436 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2019] [Revised: 12/21/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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In a contracting muscle, myosin cross-bridges extending from thick filaments pull the interdigitating thin (actin-containing) filaments during cyclical ATP-driven interactions toward the center of the sarcomere, the structural unit of striated muscle. Cross-bridge attachments in the sarcomere have been reported to exhibit a similar stiffness under both positive and negative forces. However, in vitro measurements on filaments with a sparse complement of heads detected a decrease of the cross-bridge stiffness at negative forces attributed to the buckling of the subfragment 2 tail portion. Here, we review some old and new data that confirm that cross-bridge stiffness is nearly linear in the muscle filament lattice. The implications of high myosin stiffness at positive and negative strains are considered in muscle fibers and in nonmuscle intracellular cargo transport.
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- Marco Linari
- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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Ciferri A, Crumbliss AL. Supramolecular and Liquid Crystalline Contributions to the Assembly of Myofibril. Molecules 2020; 25:E862. [PMID: 32075335 PMCID: PMC7070872 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25040862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Revised: 02/06/2020] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We compare steps observed during the fibrillogenesis of myofibrils with the sequence of steps predictable by a recent analysis of the structurization and functioning of striated muscles. The predicted assembly steps are based solely on fundamental equilibrium processes, particularly supramolecular interactions and liquid crystalline alignment of the rigid thick and thin filaments hosted within the sarcomer. Satisfactory agreement is obtained between several of the observed and the predicted fibrillogenesis steps. In several cases, however, the actual steps appear to be more complex than expected, evidencing the occurrence of transport and kinetic pathways that may assist the attainment of the equilibrium structure. The memory of the order of a precursor mesophase is imprinted during the remodeling of the surfaces at which the two sets of filaments are anchored. The relevance of the present analysis to the functioning of the myofibril is considered.
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- Alberto Ciferri
- Chemistry Department, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA;
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Cheng YS, de Souza Leite F, Rassier DE. The load dependence and the force-velocity relation in intact myosin filaments from skeletal and smooth muscles. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2020; 318:C103-C110. [PMID: 31618078 PMCID: PMC6985831 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00339.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Revised: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 10/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In the present study we evaluated the load dependence of force produced by isolated muscle myosin filaments interacting with fluorescently labeled actin filaments, using for the first time whole native myosin filaments. We used a newly developed approach that allowed the use of physiological levels of ATP. Single filaments composed of either skeletal or smooth muscle myosin and single filaments of actin were attached between pairs of nano-fabricated cantilevers of known stiffness. The filaments were brought into contact to produce force, which caused sliding of the actin filaments over the myosin filaments. We applied load to the system by either pushing or pulling the filaments during interactions and observed that increasing the load increased the force produced by myosin and decreasing the load decreased the force. We also performed additional experiments in which we clamped the filaments at predetermined levels of force, which caused the filaments to slide to adjust the different loads, allowing us to measure the velocity of length changes to construct a force-velocity relation. Force values were in the range observed previously with myosin filaments and molecules. The force-velocity curves for skeletal and smooth muscle myosins resembled the relations observed for muscle fibers. The technique can be used to investigate many issues of interest and debate in the field of muscle biophysics.
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- Yu-Shu Cheng
- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Månsson A. The effects of inorganic phosphate on muscle force development and energetics: challenges in modelling related to experimental uncertainties. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2019; 42:33-46. [PMID: 31620962 PMCID: PMC7932973 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-019-09558-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Muscle force and power are developed by myosin cross-bridges, which cyclically attach to actin, undergo a force-generating transition and detach under turnover of ATP. The force-generating transition is intimately associated with release of inorganic phosphate (Pi) but the exact sequence of events in relation to the actual Pi release step is controversial. Details of this process are reflected in the relationships between [Pi] and the developed force and shortening velocity. In order to account for these relationships, models have proposed branched kinetic pathways or loose coupling between biochemical and force-generating transitions. A key hypothesis underlying the present study is that such complexities are not required to explain changes in the force–velocity relationship and ATP turnover rate with altered [Pi]. We therefore set out to test if models without branched kinetic paths and Pi-release occurring before the main force-generating transition can account for effects of varied [Pi] (0.1–25 mM). The models tested, one assuming either linear or non-linear cross-bridge elasticity, account well for critical aspects of muscle contraction at 0.5 mM Pi but their capacity to account for the maximum power output vary. We find that the models, within experimental uncertainties, account for the relationship between [Pi] and isometric force as well as between [Pi] and the velocity of shortening at low loads. However, in apparent contradiction with available experimental findings, the tested models produce an anomalous force–velocity relationship at elevated [Pi] and high loads with more than one possible velocity for a given load. Nevertheless, considering experimental uncertainties and effects of sarcomere non-uniformities, these discrepancies are insufficient to refute the tested models in favour of more complex alternatives.
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- Alf Månsson
- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Linnaeus University, Universitetskajen, 391 82, Kalmar, Sweden.
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Wang F, Zhang X, Liu X, Fan C, Li Q. Programming Motions of DNA Origami Nanomachines. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2019; 15:e1900013. [PMID: 30908896 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201900013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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DNA nanotechnology enables the precise fabrication of DNA-based machines with nanoscale dimensions. A wide range of DNA nanomachines are designed, which can be activated by specific inputs to perform various movement and functions. The excellent rigidity and unprecedented addressability of DNA origami have made it an excellent platform for manipulating and investigating the motion behaviors of DNA machines at single-molecule level. In this Concept, power supply, machine actuation, and motion behavior of DNA machines on origami platforms are summarized and classified. The strategies utilized for programming motion behavior of DNA machines on DNA origami are also discussed with representative examples. The challenges and outlook for future development of manipulating DNA nanomachines at the single molecule level are presented and discussed.
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- Fei Wang
- Joint Research Center for Precision Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital South Campus, Southern Medical University Affiliated Fengxian Hospital, Shanghai, 201499, China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Joint Research Center for Precision Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital South Campus, Southern Medical University Affiliated Fengxian Hospital, Shanghai, 201499, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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Månsson A. Comparing models with one versus multiple myosin-binding sites per actin target zone: The power of simplicity. J Gen Physiol 2019; 151:578-592. [PMID: 30872560 PMCID: PMC6445577 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201812301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 02/16/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Mechanokinetic statistical models describe the mechanisms of muscle contraction on the basis of the average behavior of a large ensemble of actin-myosin motors. Such models often assume that myosin II motor domains bind to regularly spaced, discrete target zones along the actin-based thin filaments and develop force in a series of strain-dependent transitions under the turnover of ATP. The simplest models assume that there is just one myosin-binding site per target zone and a uniform spatial distribution of the myosin motor domains in relation to each site. However, most of the recently developed models assume three myosin-binding sites per target zone, and some models include a spatially explicit 3-D treatment of the myofilament lattice and thereby of the geometry of the actin-myosin contact points. Here, I show that the predictions for steady-state contractile behavior of muscle are very similar whether one or three myosin-binding sites per target zone is assumed, provided that the model responses are appropriately scaled to the number of sites. Comparison of the model predictions for isometrically contracting mammalian muscle cells suggests that each target zone contains three or more myosin-binding sites. Finally, I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of one-site spatially inexplicit models in relation to three-site models, including those that take into account the detailed 3-D geometry of the myofilament lattice. The results of this study suggest that single-site models, with reduced computational cost compared with multisite models, are useful for several purposes, e.g., facilitated molecular mechanistic insights.
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- Alf Månsson
- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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Ishii S, Suzuki M, Ishiwata S, Kawai M. Functional significance of HCM mutants of tropomyosin, V95A and D175N, studied with in vitro motility assays. Biophys Physicobiol 2019; 16:28-40. [PMID: 30923661 PMCID: PMC6435021 DOI: 10.2142/biophysico.16.0_28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The majority of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is caused by mutations in sarcomere proteins. We examined tropomyosin (Tpm)’s HCM mutants in humans, V95A and D175N, with in vitro motility assay using optical tweezers to evaluate the effects of the Tpm mutations on the actomyosin interaction at the single molecular level. Thin filaments were reconstituted using these Tpm mutants, and their sliding velocity and force were measured at varying Ca2+ concentrations. Our results indicate that the sliding velocity at pCa ≥8.0 was significantly increased in mutants, which is expected to cause a diastolic problem. The velocity that can be activated by Ca2+ decreased significantly in mutants causing a systolic problem. With sliding force, Ca2+ activatable force decreased in V95A and increased in D175N, which may cause a systolic problem. Our results further demonstrate that the duty ratio determined at the steady state of force generation in saturating [Ca2+] decreased in V95A and increased in D175N. The Ca2+ sensitivity and cooperativity were not significantly affected by the mutations. These results suggest that the two mutants modulate molecular processes of the actomyosin interaction differently, but to result in the same pathology known as HCM.
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- Shuya Ishii
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.,PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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