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Johnson CA, Behbehani R, Buss F. Unconventional Myosins from Caenorhabditis elegans as a Probe to Study Human Orthologues. Biomolecules 2022; 12:biom12121889. [PMID: 36551317 PMCID: PMC9775386 DOI: 10.3390/biom12121889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Revised: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Unconventional myosins are a superfamily of actin-based motor proteins that perform a number of roles in fundamental cellular processes, including (but not limited to) intracellular trafficking, cell motility, endocytosis, exocytosis and cytokinesis. 40 myosins genes have been identified in humans, which belong to different 12 classes based on their domain structure and organisation. These genes are widely expressed in different tissues, and mutations leading to loss of function are associated with a wide variety of pathologies while over-expression often results in cancer. Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is a small, free-living, non-parasitic nematode. ~38% of the genome of C. elegans has predicted orthologues in the human genome, making it a valuable tool to study the function of human counterparts and human diseases. To date, 8 unconventional myosin genes have been identified in the nematode, from 6 different classes with high homology to human paralogues. The hum-1 and hum-5 (heavy chain of an unconventional myosin) genes encode myosin of class I, hum-2 of class V, hum-3 and hum-8 of class VI, hum-6 of class VII and hum-7 of class IX. The hum-4 gene encodes a high molecular mass myosin (307 kDa) that is one of the most highly divergent myosins and is a member of class XII. Mutations in many of the human orthologues are lethal, indicating their essential properties. However, a functional characterisation for many of these genes in C. elegans has not yet been performed. This article reviews the current knowledge of unconventional myosin genes in C. elegans and explores the potential use of the nematode to study the function and regulation of myosin motors to provide valuable insights into their role in diseases.
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Latham SL, Weiß N, Schwanke K, Thiel C, Croucher DR, Zweigerdt R, Manstein DJ, Taft MH. Myosin-18B Regulates Higher-Order Organization of the Cardiac Sarcomere through Thin Filament Cross-Linking and Thick Filament Dynamics. Cell Rep 2021; 32:108090. [PMID: 32877672 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Revised: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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MYO18B loss-of-function mutations and depletion significantly compromise the structural integrity of striated muscle sarcomeres. The molecular function of the encoded protein, myosin-18B (M18B), within the developing muscle is unknown. Here, we demonstrate that recombinant M18B lacks motor ATPase activity and harbors previously uncharacterized N-terminal actin-binding domains, properties that make M18B an efficient actin cross-linker and molecular brake capable of regulating muscle myosin-2 contractile forces. Spatiotemporal analysis of M18B throughout cardiomyogenesis and myofibrillogenesis reveals that this structural myosin undergoes nuclear-cytoplasmic redistribution during myogenic differentiation, where its incorporation within muscle stress fibers coincides with actin striation onset. Furthermore, this analysis shows that M18B is directly integrated within the muscle myosin thick filament during myofibril maturation. Altogether, our data suggest that M18B has evolved specific biochemical properties that allow it to define and maintain sarcomeric organization from within the thick filament via its dual actin cross-linking and motor modulating capabilities.
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- Sharissa L Latham
- Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover 30625, Germany; The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover 30625, Germany
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- Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO), Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, REBIRTH-Cluster of Excellence, Hannover Medical School, Hannover 30625, Germany
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- Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover 30625, Germany
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- The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO), Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, REBIRTH-Cluster of Excellence, Hannover Medical School, Hannover 30625, Germany
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- Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover 30625, Germany
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- Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover 30625, Germany.
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Pillon M, Doublet P. Myosins, an Underestimated Player in the Infectious Cycle of Pathogenic Bacteria. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22020615. [PMID: 33435466 PMCID: PMC7826972 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22020615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Revised: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Myosins play a key role in many cellular processes such as cell migration, adhesion, intracellular trafficking and internalization processes, making them ideal targets for bacteria. Through selected examples, such as enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), Neisseria, Salmonella, Shigella, Listeria or Chlamydia, this review aims to illustrate how bacteria target and hijack host cell myosins in order to adhere to the cell, to enter the cell by triggering their internalization, to evade from the cytosolic autonomous cell defense, to promote the biogenesis of intracellular replicative niche, to disseminate in tissues by cell-to-cell spreading, to exit out the host cell, and also to evade from macrophage phagocytosis. It highlights the diversity and sophistication of the strategy evolved by bacteria to manipulate one of their privileged targets, the actin cytoskeleton.
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- Margaux Pillon
- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Legionella Pathogenesis Group, Université de Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France;
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1111, 69007 Lyon, France
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France
- Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69007 Lyon, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR5308, 69007 Lyon, France
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Legionella Pathogenesis Group, Université de Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France;
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1111, 69007 Lyon, France
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France
- Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69007 Lyon, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR5308, 69007 Lyon, France
- Correspondence:
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Class IX Myosins: Motorized RhoGAP Signaling Molecules. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2020; 1239:381-389. [PMID: 32451867 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38062-5_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Class IX myosins are simultaneously motor and signaling molecules. In addition to myosin class-specific functions of the tail region, they feature unique motor properties. Within their motor region they contain a long insertion with a calmodulin- and a F-actin-binding site. The rate-limiting step in the ATPase cycle is ATP hydrolysis rather than, typical for other myosins, the release of either product. This means that class IX myosins spend a large fraction of their cycle time in the ATP-bound state, which is typically a low F-actin affinity state. Nevertheless, class IX myosins in the ATP-bound state stochastically switch between a low and a high F-actin affinity state. Single motor domains even show characteristics of processive movement towards the plus end of actin filaments. The insertion thereby acts as an actin tether. The motor domain transports as intramolecular cargo a signaling Rho GTPase-activating protein domain located in the tail region. Rho GTPase-activating proteins catalyze the conversion of active GTP-bound Rho to inactive GDP-bound Rho by stimulating GTP hydrolysis. In cells, Rho activity regulates actin cytoskeleton organization and actomyosin II contractility. Thus, class IX myosins regulate cell morphology, cell migration, cell-cell junctions and membrane trafficking. These cellular functions affect embryonic development, adult organ homeostasis and immune responses. Human diseases associated with mutations in the two class IX myosins, Myo9a and Myo9b, have been identified, including hydrocephalus and congenital myasthenic syndrome in connection with Myo9a and autoimmune diseases in connection with Myo9b.
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Heissler SM, Chinthalapudi K, Sellers JR. Kinetic signatures of myosin-5B, the motor involved in microvillus inclusion disease. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:18372-18385. [PMID: 28882893 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.801456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2017] [Revised: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Myosin-5B is a ubiquitous molecular motor that transports cargo vesicles of the endomembrane system in intracellular recycling pathways. Myosin-5B malfunction causes the congenital enteropathy microvillus inclusion disease, underlining its importance in cellular homeostasis. Here we describe the interaction of myosin-5B with F-actin, nucleotides, and the pyrazolopyrimidine compound myoVin-1. We show that single-headed myosin-5B is an intermediate duty ratio motor with a kinetic ATPase cycle that is rate-limited by the release of phosphate. The presence of a second head generates strain and gating in the myosin-5B dimer that alters the kinetic signature by reducing the actin-activated ADP release rate to become rate-limiting. This kinetic transition into a high-duty ratio motor is a prerequisite for the proposed transport function of myosin-5B in cellular recycling pathways. Moreover, we show that the small molecule compound myoVin-1 inhibits the enzymatic and functional activity of myosin-5B in vitro Partial inhibition of the actin-activated steady-state ATPase activity and sliding velocity suggests that caution should be used when probing the effect of myoVin-1 on myosin-5-dependent transport processes in cells.
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- Sarah M Heissler
- From the Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-8015 and
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- the Cell Adhesion Laboratory, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458
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- From the Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-8015 and
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Masters TA, Kendrick-Jones J, Buss F. Myosins: Domain Organisation, Motor Properties, Physiological Roles and Cellular Functions. Handb Exp Pharmacol 2017; 235:77-122. [PMID: 27757761 DOI: 10.1007/164_2016_29] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Myosins are cytoskeletal motor proteins that use energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to generate force and movement along actin filaments. Humans express 38 myosin genes belonging to 12 classes that participate in a diverse range of crucial activities, including muscle contraction, intracellular trafficking, cell division, motility, actin cytoskeletal organisation and cell signalling. Myosin malfunction has been implicated a variety of disorders including deafness, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Usher syndrome, Griscelli syndrome and cancer. In this chapter, we will first discuss the key structural and kinetic features that are conserved across the myosin family. Thereafter, we summarise for each member in turn its unique functional and structural adaptations, cellular roles and associated pathologies. Finally, we address the broad therapeutic potential for pharmacological interventions that target myosin family members.
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- Thomas A Masters
- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, UK.
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- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0XY, UK
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Self-organization of actin networks by a monomeric myosin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:E8387-E8395. [PMID: 27956608 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612719113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The organization of actomyosin networks lies at the center of many types of cellular motility, including cell polarization and collective cell migration during development and morphogenesis. Myosin-IXa is critically involved in these processes. Using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, we resolved actin bundles assembled by myosin-IXa. Electron microscopic data revealed that the bundles consisted of highly ordered lattices with parallel actin polarity. The myosin-IXa motor domains aligned across the network, forming cross-links at a repeat distance of precisely 36 nm, matching the helical repeat of actin. Single-particle image processing resolved three distinct conformations of myosin-IXa in the absence of nucleotide. Using cross-correlation of a modeled actomyosin crystal structure, we identified sites of additional mass, which can only be accounted for by the large insert in loop 2 exclusively found in the motor domain of class IX myosins. We show that the large insert in loop 2 binds calmodulin and creates two coordinated actin-binding sites that constrain the actomyosin interactions generating the actin lattices. The actin lattices introduce orientated tracks at specific sites in the cell, which might install platforms allowing Rho-GTPase-activating protein (RhoGAP) activity to be focused at a definite locus. In addition, the lattices might introduce a myosin-related, force-sensing mechanism into the cytoskeleton in cell polarization and collective cell migration.
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Yi F, Kong R, Ren J, Zhu L, Lou J, Wu JY, Feng W. Noncanonical Myo9b-RhoGAP Accelerates RhoA GTP Hydrolysis by a Dual-Arginine-Finger Mechanism. J Mol Biol 2016; 428:3043-57. [PMID: 27363609 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2016.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2016] [Revised: 06/17/2016] [Accepted: 06/19/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The GTP hydrolysis activities of Rho GTPases are stimulated by GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs), which contain a RhoGAP domain equipped with a characteristic arginine finger and an auxiliary asparagine for catalysis. However, the auxiliary asparagine is missing in the RhoGAP domain of Myo9b (Myo9b-RhoGAP), a unique motorized RhoGAP that specifically targets RhoA for controlling cell motility. Here, we determined the structure of Myo9b-RhoGAP in complex with GDP-bound RhoA and magnesium fluoride. Unexpectedly, Myo9b-RhoGAP contains two arginine fingers at its catalytic site. The first arginine finger resembles the one within the canonical RhoGAP domains and inserts into the nucleotide-binding pocket of RhoA, whereas the second arginine finger anchors the Switch I loop of RhoA and interacts with the nucleotide, stabilizing the transition state of GTP hydrolysis and compensating for the lack of the asparagine. Mutating either of the two arginine fingers impaired the catalytic activity of Myo9b-RhoGAP and affected the Myo9b-mediated cell migration. Our data indicate that Myo9b-RhoGAP accelerates RhoA GTP hydrolysis by a previously unknown dual-arginine-finger mechanism, which may be shared by other noncanonical RhoGAP domains lacking the auxiliary asparagine.
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- Fengshuang Yi
- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Neurology, Center for Genetic Medicine, Lurie Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 E Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 USA.
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China.
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Ankyrin domain of myosin 16 influences motor function and decreases protein phosphatase catalytic activity. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2015; 44:207-18. [PMID: 25775934 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-015-1015-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2014] [Revised: 02/17/2015] [Accepted: 02/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The unconventional myosin 16 (Myo16), which may have a role in regulation of cell cycle and cell proliferation, can be found in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm. It has a unique, eight ankyrin repeat containing pre-motor domain, the so-called ankyrin domain (My16Ank). Ankyrin repeats are present in several other proteins, e.g., in the regulatory subunit (MYPT1) of the myosin phosphatase holoenzyme, which binds to the protein phosphatase-1 catalytic subunit (PP1c). My16Ank shows sequence similarity to MYPT1. In this work, the interactions of recombinant and isolated My16Ank were examined in vitro. To test the effects of My16Ank on myosin motor function, we used skeletal muscle myosin or nonmuscle myosin 2B. The results showed that My16Ank bound to skeletal muscle myosin (K D ≈ 2.4 µM) and the actin-activated ATPase activity of heavy meromyosin (HMM) was increased in the presence of My16Ank, suggesting that the ankyrin domain can modulate myosin motor activity. My16Ank showed no direct interaction with either globular or filamentous actin. We found, using a surface plasmon resonance-based binding technique, that My16Ank bound to PP1cα (K D ≈ 540 nM) and also to PP1cδ (K D ≈ 600 nM) and decreased its phosphatase activity towards the phosphorylated myosin regulatory light chain. Our results suggest that one function of the ankyrin domain is probably to regulate the function of Myo16. It may influence the motor activity, and in complex with the PP1c isoforms, it can play an important role in the targeted dephosphorylation of certain, as yet unidentified, intracellular proteins.
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Adamek N, Geeves MA. Use of pyrene-labelled actin to probe actin-myosin interactions: kinetic and equilibrium studies. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 105:87-104. [PMID: 25095992 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0856-9_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Studying the dynamics of the interaction between actin and myosin and how this is modulated by ATP and other nucleotides is fundamental to any understanding of myosin motor protein activity. The fluorescent label pyrene, covalently attached to actin (at Cys 374), has been one of the most useful optical probes to report myosin binding to actin. The unique spectral features of pyrene make it sensitive to changes in the microenvironment of the probe and allow to monitor processes such as conformational changes and protein-protein interactions. Here we describe how to make and use pyrene-labelled actin and describe a set of fluorescence stopped-flow measurements that allow the actin-myosin interaction to be explored at protein concentrations from μM to nM for many of the known myosin motors.
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- Nancy Adamek
- School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NJ, UK
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Batters C, Veigel C, Homsher E, Sellers JR. To understand muscle you must take it apart. Front Physiol 2014; 5:90. [PMID: 24653704 PMCID: PMC3949407 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2013] [Accepted: 02/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Striated muscle is an elegant system for study at many levels. Much has been learned about the mechanism of contraction from studying the mechanical properties of intact and permeabilized (or skinned) muscle fibers. Structural studies using electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction or spectroscopic probes attached to various contractile proteins were possible because of the highly ordered sarcomeric arrangement of actin and myosin. However, to understand the mechanism of force generation at a molecular level, it is necessary to take the system apart and study the interaction of myosin with actin using in vitro assays. This reductionist approach has lead to many fundamental insights into how myosin powers muscle contraction. In addition, nature has provided scientists with an array of muscles with different mechanical properties and with a superfamily of myosin molecules. Taking advantage of this diversity in myosin structure and function has lead to additional insights into common properties of force generation. This review will highlight the development of the major assays and methods that have allowed this combined reductionist and comparative approach to be so fruitful. This review highlights the history of biochemical and biophysical studies of myosin and demonstrates how a broad comparative approach combined with reductionist studies have led to a detailed understanding of how myosin interacts with actin and uses chemical energy to generate force and movement in muscle contraction and motility in general.
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- Christopher Batters
- Department of Cellular Physiology and Centre for Nanosciences (CeNS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München München, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Physiology and Centre for Nanosciences (CeNS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München München, Germany
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- Physiology Department, University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA
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Karagiannis P, Ishii Y, Yanagida T. Molecular machines like myosin use randomness to behave predictably. Chem Rev 2014; 114:3318-34. [PMID: 24484383 DOI: 10.1021/cr400344n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Peter Karagiannis
- Quantitative Biology Center, Riken (QBiC) , Furuedai 6-2-3, Suita, Osaka 565-0874, Japan
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Elfrink K, Liao W, Pieper U, Oeding SJ, Bähler M. The loop2 insertion of type IX myosin acts as an electrostatic actin tether that permits processive movement. PLoS One 2014; 9:e84874. [PMID: 24416302 PMCID: PMC3887004 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2013] [Accepted: 11/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Although class IX myosins are single-headed, they demonstrate characteristics of processive movement along actin filaments. Double-headed myosins that move processively along actin filaments achieve this by successive binding of the two heads in a hand-over-hand mechanism. This mechanism, obviously, cannot operate in single-headed myosins. However, it has been proposed that a long class IX specific insertion in the myosin head domain at loop2 acts as an F-actin tether, allowing for single-headed processive movement. Here, we tested this proposal directly by analysing the movement of deletion constructs of the class IX myosin from Caenorhabditis elegans (Myo IX). Deletion of the large basic loop2 insertion led to a loss of processive behaviour, while deletion of the N-terminal head extension, a second unique domain of class IX myosins, did not influence the motility of Myo IX. The processive behaviour of Myo IX is also abolished with increasing salt concentrations. These observations directly demonstrate that the insertion located in loop2 acts as an electrostatic actin tether during movement of Myo IX along the actin track.
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- Kerstin Elfrink
- Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Westfalian Wilhelms-University, Muenster, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Westfalian Wilhelms-University, Muenster, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Westfalian Wilhelms-University, Muenster, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Westfalian Wilhelms-University, Muenster, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Westfalian Wilhelms-University, Muenster, Germany
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Cao Y, White HD, Li XD. Drosophila myosin-XX functions as an actin-binding protein to facilitate the interaction between Zyx102 and actin. Biochemistry 2014; 53:350-60. [PMID: 24393048 DOI: 10.1021/bi401236c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The class XX myosin is a member of the diverse myosin superfamily and exists in insects and several lower invertebrates. DmMyo20, the class XX myosin in Drosophila, is encoded by dachs, which functions as a crucial downstream component of the Fat signaling pathway, influencing growth, affinity, and gene expression during development. Sequence analysis shows that DmMyo20 contains a unique N-terminal extension, the motor domain, followed by one IQ motif, and a C-terminal tail. To investigate the biochemical properties of DmMyo20, we expressed several DmMyo20 truncated constructs containing the motor domain in the baculovirus/Sf9 system. We found that the motor domain of DmMyo20 had neither ATPase activity nor the ability to bind to ATP, suggesting that DmMyo20 does not function as a molecular motor. We found that the motor domain of DmMyo20 could specifically bind to actin filaments in an ATP-independent manner and enhance the interaction between actin filaments and Zyx102, a downstream component of DmMyo20 in the Fat signaling pathway. These results suggest that DmMyo20 functions as a scaffold protein, but not as a molecular motor, in a signaling pathway controlling cell differentiation.
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- Yang Cao
- Group of Cell Motility and Muscle Contraction, National Laboratory of Integrated Management of Insect Pests and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101, China
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Taft MH, Behrmann E, Munske-Weidemann LC, Thiel C, Raunser S, Manstein DJ. Functional characterization of human myosin-18A and its interaction with F-actin and GOLPH3. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:30029-30041. [PMID: 23990465 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.497180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Molecular motors of the myosin superfamily share a generic motor domain region. They commonly bind actin in an ATP-sensitive manner, exhibit actin-activated ATPase activity, and generate force and movement in this interaction. Class-18 myosins form heavy chain dimers and contain protein interaction domains located at their unique N-terminal extension. Here, we characterized human myosin-18A molecular function in the interaction with nucleotides, F-actin, and its putative binding partner, the Golgi-associated phosphoprotein GOLPH3. We show that myosin-18A comprises two actin binding sites. One is located in the KE-rich region at the start of the N-terminal extension and appears to mediate ATP-independent binding to F-actin. The second actin-binding site resides in the generic motor domain and is regulated by nucleotide binding in the absence of intrinsic ATP hydrolysis competence. This core motor domain displays its highest actin affinity in the ADP state. Electron micrographs of myosin-18A motor domain-decorated F-actin filaments show a periodic binding pattern independent of the nucleotide state. We show that the PDZ module mediates direct binding of myosin-18A to GOLPH3, and this interaction in turn modulates the actin binding properties of the N-terminal extension. Thus, myosin-18A can act as an actin cross-linker with multiple regulatory modulators that targets interacting proteins or complexes to the actin-based cytoskeleton.
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- Manuel H Taft
- From the Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, OE 4350, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany and.
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- the Department of Physical Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- From the Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, OE 4350, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany and
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- From the Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, OE 4350, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany and
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- the Department of Physical Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- From the Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, OE 4350, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany and
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Adikes RC, Unrath WC, Yengo CM, Quintero OA. Biochemical and bioinformatic analysis of the myosin-XIX motor domain. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 2013; 70:281-95. [PMID: 23568824 DOI: 10.1002/cm.21110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2013] [Revised: 03/25/2013] [Accepted: 04/02/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Mitochondrial dynamics are dependent on both the microtubule and actin cytoskeletal systems. Evidence for the involvement of myosin motors has been described in many systems, and until recently a candidate mitochondrial myosin transport motor had not been described in vertebrates. Myosin-XIX (MYO19) was predicted to represent a novel class of myosin and had previously been shown to bind to mitochondria and increase mitochondrial network dynamics when ectopically expressed. Our analyses comparing ∼40 MYO19 orthologs to ∼2000 other myosin motor domain sequences identified instances of homology well-conserved within class XIX myosins that were not found in other myosin classes, suggesting MYO19-specific mechanochemistry. Steady-state biochemical analyses of the MYO19 motor domain indicate that Homo sapiens MYO19 is a functional motor. Insect cell-expressed constructs bound calmodulin as a light chain at the predicted stoichiometry and displayed actin-activated ATPase activity. MYO19 constructs demonstrated high actin affinity in the presence of ATP in actin-co-sedimentation assays, and translocated actin filaments in gliding assays. Expression of GFP-MYO19 containing a mutation impairing ATPase activity did not enhance mitochondrial network dynamics, as occurs with wild-type MYO19, indicating that myosin motor activity is required for mitochondrial motility. The measured biochemical properties of MYO19 suggest it is a high-duty ratio motor that could serve to transport mitochondria or anchor mitochondria, depending upon the cellular microenvironment.
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- Rebecca C Adikes
- Program in Biochemistry, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA
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Mammals contain two class IX myosins, Myo9a and Myo9b. They are actin-based motorized signalling molecules that negatively regulate RhoA signalling. Myo9a has been implicated in the regulation of epithelial cell morphology and differentiation, whereas Myo9b has been shown to play an important role in the regulation of macrophage shape and motility.
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Guzik-Lendrum S, Nagy A, Takagi Y, Houdusse A, Sellers JR. Drosophila melanogaster myosin-18 represents a highly divergent motor with actin tethering properties. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:21755-66. [PMID: 21498886 PMCID: PMC3122231 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.218669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The gene encoding Drosophila myosin-18 is complex and can potentially yield six alternatively spliced mRNAs. One of the major features of this myosin is an N-terminal PDZ domain that is included in some of the predicted alternatively spliced products. To explore the biochemical properties of this protein, we engineered two minimal motor domain (MMD)-like constructs, one that contains the N-terminal PDZ (myosin-18 M-PDZ) domain and one that does not (myosin-18 M-ΔPDZ). These two constructs were expressed in the baculovirus/Sf9 system. The results suggest that Drosophila myosin-18 is highly divergent from most other myosins in the superfamily. Neither of the MMD constructs had an actin-activated MgATPase activity, nor did they even bind ATP. Both myosin-18 M-PDZ and M-ΔPDZ proteins bound to actin with Kd values of 2.61 and 1.04 μm, respectively, but only about 50–75% of the protein bound to actin even at high actin concentrations. Unbound proteins from these actin binding assays reiterated the 60% saturation maximum, suggesting an equilibrium between actin-binding and non-actin-binding conformations of Drosophila myosin-18 in vitro. Neither the binding affinity nor the substoichiometric binding was significantly affected by ATP. Optical trapping of single molecules in three-bead assays showed short lived interactions of the myosin-18 motors with actin filaments. Combined, these data suggest that this highly divergent motor may function as an actin tethering protein.
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- Stephanie Guzik-Lendrum
- Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Sugita M, Iwataki Y, Nakano K, Numata O. Unique sequences and predicted functions of myosins in Tetrahymena thermophila. Gene 2011; 480:10-20. [PMID: 21338663 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2011.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2010] [Revised: 02/07/2011] [Accepted: 02/13/2011] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Myosins are eukaryotic actin-dependent molecular motors that play important roles in many cellular events. The function of each myosin is determined by a variety of functional domains in its tail region. In some major model organisms, the functions and properties of myosins have been investigated based on their amino acid sequences. However, in protists, myosins have been little studied beyond the level of genome sequences. We therefore investigated the mRNA expression levels and amino acid sequences of 13 myosin genes in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. This study is an overview of myosins in T. thermophila, which has no typical myosins, such as class I, II, or V myosins. We showed that all 13 myosins were expressed in vegetative cells. Furthermore, these myosins could be divided into 3 subclasses based on four functional domains in their tail regions. Subclass 1 comprised of 8 myosins has both MyTH4 and FERM domains, and has a potential to function in vesicle transport or anchoring between membrane and actin filaments. Subclass 2 comprised of 4 myosins has RCC1 (regulator of chromosome condensation 1) domains, which are found only in some protists, and may have unconventional features. Subclass 3 is comprised of one myosin, which has a long coiled-coil domain like class II myosin. In addition, phylogenetic analysis on the basis of motor domains showed that T. thermophila myosins are separated into two clusters: one consists of subclasses 1 and 2, and the other consists of subclass 3.
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- Maki Sugita
- Structural Biosciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennohdai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Liao W, Elfrink K, Bähler M. Head of myosin IX binds calmodulin and moves processively toward the plus-end of actin filaments. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:24933-42. [PMID: 20538589 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.101105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mammalian myosin IXb (Myo9b) has been shown to exhibit unique motor properties in that it is a single-headed processive motor and the rate-limiting step in its chemical cycle is ATP hydrolysis. Furthermore, it has been reported to move toward the minus- and the plus-end of actin filaments. To analyze the contribution of the light chain-binding domain to the movement, processivity, and directionality of a single-headed processive myosin, we expressed constructs of Caenorhabditis elegans myosin IX (Myo9) containing either the head (Myo9-head) or the head and the light chain-binding domain (Myo9-head-4IQ). Both constructs supported actin filament gliding and moved toward the plus-end of actin filaments. We identified in the head of class IX myosins a calmodulin-binding site at the N terminus of loop 2 that is unique among the myosin superfamily members. Ca(2+)/calmodulin negatively regulated ATPase and motility of the Myo9-head. The Myo9-head demonstrated characteristics of a processive motor in that it supported actin filament gliding and pivoting at low motor densities. Quantum dot-labeled Myo9-head moved along actin filaments with a considerable run length and frequently paused without dissociating even in the presence of obstacles. We conclude that class IX myosins are plus-end-directed motors and that even a single head exhibits characteristics of a processive motor.
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- Wanqin Liao
- Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Westfalian Wilhelms-University, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Xie P. A model for processive movement of single-headed myosin-IX. Biophys Chem 2010; 151:71-80. [PMID: 20627400 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2010.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2010] [Revised: 05/14/2010] [Accepted: 05/14/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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It is puzzling that in spite of its single-headed structure, myosin-IX can move processively along actin. Here, based on the experimental evidence that the strong binding of myosin to actin in rigor state induces structural changes to several local actin monomers, a Brownian ratchet model is proposed to describe this processive movement. In the model, the actin plays an active role in the motility of single-headed myosin, in contrast to the common belief that the actin acts only as a passive track for the motility of the myosin. The unidirectional movement is due to both the asymmetric periodic potential of the myosin interacting with actin and the forward Stokes force induced by the relative rotation of the neck domain to the motor domain, while the processivity is determined by the binding affinity of the myosin for actin in ATP state. This gives a good explanation to the high processivity of myosin-IX, which results from its high binding affinity for actin in ATP state due to the presence of unique loop 2 insertion or N-terminal extension. The experimental results on the motility of myosin-IX such as the step size, large forward/backward stepping ratio, run length, stall force, etc, are explained well.
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- Ping Xie
- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Hodges AR, Bookwalter CS, Krementsova EB, Trybus KM. A nonprocessive class V myosin drives cargo processively when a kinesin- related protein is a passenger. Curr Biol 2009; 19:2121-5. [PMID: 20005107 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.10.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2009] [Revised: 10/14/2009] [Accepted: 10/22/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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During secretory events, kinesin transports cargo along microtubules and then shifts control to myosin V for delivery on actin filaments to the cell membrane [1]. When kinesin and myosin V are present on the same cargo, kinesin interacts electrostatically with actin to enhance myosin V-based transport in vitro [2]. The relevance of this observation within the cell was questioned. In budding yeast, overexpression of a kinesin-family protein (Smy1p) suppressed a transport defect in a strain with a mutant class V myosin (Myo2p) [3]. We postulate that this is a cellular manifestation of the in vitro observation. We demonstrate that Smy1p binds electrostatically to actin bundles. Although a single Myo2p cannot transport cargo along actin bundles, addition of Smy1p causes the complex to undergo long-range, continuous movement. We propose that the kinesin-family protein acts as a tether that prevents cargo dissociation from actin, allowing the myosin to take many steps before dissociating. We demonstrate that both the tether and the motor reside on moving secretory vesicles in yeast cells, a necessary feature for this mechanism to apply in vivo. The presence of both kinesin and myosin on the same cargo may be a general mechanism to enhance cellular transport in yeast and higher organisms.
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- Alex R Hodges
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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Leskovar A, Reinstein J. Photophysical properties of popular fluorescent adenosine nucleotide analogs used in enzyme mechanism probing. Arch Biochem Biophys 2008; 473:16-24. [PMID: 18342617 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2008.02.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2007] [Revised: 02/26/2008] [Accepted: 02/26/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Fluorescent nucleotide analogs are widely used in mechanistic studies of nucleotide binding and utilizing proteins. We describe here an overview of the photophysical parameters of the most popular nucleotide analogs that have a fluorescent N-methylanthraniloyl-group attached at various positions of the nucleotide. Steady state absorption and fluorescence spectra of free chromophores depend on the type of modification (ribose, base or phosphate moiety) and the addition of proteins suggests that the labeled nucleotides also vary in sensitivity depending upon their local protein environment. Fluorescence lifetime measurements imply two to three lifetimes for each nucleotide with complex changes in dependence on solvent but more importantly also on the protein. The measured quantum yields quantify the increase in fluorescence for (C8)-MABA-ADP, MANT-ATP and (Pgamma)-MABA-ATP as 153%, 93% and 14% when bound to DnaK, ClpB and Trap1, respectively, compared to free in buffer solution.
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- Adriane Leskovar
- Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Department of Biomolecular Mechanisms, Jahnstrasse 29, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Redowicz MJ. Unconventional myosins in muscle. Eur J Cell Biol 2007; 86:549-58. [PMID: 17662501 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2007.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2007] [Revised: 05/30/2007] [Accepted: 05/31/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Myosins, actin-based molecular motors originally isolated from muscle tissues, are ubiquitously expressed in all eukaryotic cells. They are involved in a panoply of cellular functions, including cell migration, intracellular trafficking, adhesion, and cytokinesis. Several unconventional myosins belonging to classes I, V, VI, VII, IX, and XVIII have been detected in myogenic cells and/or adult muscle where they seem to play important roles in muscle functioning and/or differentiation. For example, a point mutation within the myosin VI gene leads to a cardiac dysfunction, and myosin XVIIIB (expressed predominantly in striated muscle) may be involved in muscle gene transcription. This review summarizes data addressing the functioning of these unconventional myosins in muscle and/or myogenic cells.
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- Maria Jolanta Redowicz
- Department of Biochemistry, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, 3 Pasteur Street, PL 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
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van den Boom F, Düssmann H, Uhlenbrock K, Abouhamed M, Bähler M. The Myosin IXb motor activity targets the myosin IXb RhoGAP domain as cargo to sites of actin polymerization. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 18:1507-18. [PMID: 17314409 PMCID: PMC1838980 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-08-0771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2006] [Revised: 12/26/2006] [Accepted: 02/05/2007] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Myosin IXb (Myo9b) is a single-headed processive myosin that exhibits Rho GTPase-activating protein (RhoGAP) activity in its tail region. Using live cell imaging, we determined that Myo9b is recruited to extending lamellipodia, ruffles, and filopodia, the regions of active actin polymerization. A functional motor domain was both necessary and sufficient for targeting Myo9b to these regions. The head domains of class IX myosins comprise a large insertion in loop2. Deletion of the large Myo9b head loop 2 insertion abrogated the enrichment in extending lamellipodia and ruffles, but enhanced significantly the enrichment at the tips of filopodia and retraction fibers. The enrichment in the tips of filopodia and retraction fibers depended on four lysine residues C-terminal to the loop 2 insertion and the tail region. Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching and photoactivation experiments in lamellipodia revealed that the dynamics of Myo9b was comparable to that of actin. The exchange rates depended on the Myo9b motor region and motor activity, and they were also dependent on the turnover of F-actin. These results demonstrate that Myo9b functions as a motorized RhoGAP molecule in regions of actin polymerization and identify Myo9b head sequences important for in vivo motor properties.
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- Frank van den Boom
- Institute for General Zoology and Genetics, Westfalian Wilhelms-University, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute for General Zoology and Genetics, Westfalian Wilhelms-University, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute for General Zoology and Genetics, Westfalian Wilhelms-University, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute for General Zoology and Genetics, Westfalian Wilhelms-University, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute for General Zoology and Genetics, Westfalian Wilhelms-University, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Kempler K, Tóth J, Yamashita R, Mapel G, Robinson K, Cardasis H, Stevens S, Sellers JR, Battelle BA. Loop 2 of limulus myosin III is phosphorylated by protein kinase A and autophosphorylation. Biochemistry 2007; 46:4280-93. [PMID: 17367164 PMCID: PMC2580675 DOI: 10.1021/bi062112u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Little is known about the functions of class III unconventional myosins although, with an N-terminal kinase domain, they are potentially both signaling and motor proteins. Limulus myosin III is particularly interesting because it is a phosphoprotein abundant in photoreceptors that becomes more heavily phosphorylated at night by protein kinase A. This enhanced nighttime phosphorylation occurs in response to signals from an endogenous circadian clock and correlates with dramatic changes in photoreceptor structure and function. We seek to understand the role of Limulus myosin III and its phosphorylation in photoreceptors. Here we determined the sites that become phosphorylated in Limulus myosin III and investigated its kinase, actin binding, and myosin ATPase activities. We show that Limulus myosin III exhibits kinase activity and that a major site for both protein kinase A and autophosphorylation is located within loop 2 of the myosin domain, an important actin binding region. We also identify the phosphorylation of an additional protein kinase A and autophosphorylation site near loop 2, and a predicted phosphorylation site within loop 2. We show that the kinase domain of Limulus myosin III shares some pharmacological properties with protein kinase A, and that it is a potential opsin kinase. Finally, we demonstrate that Limulus myosin III binds actin but lacks ATPase activity. We conclude that Limulus myosin III is an actin-binding and signaling protein and speculate that interactions between actin and Limulus myosin III are regulated by both second messenger mediated phosphorylation and autophosphorylation of its myosin domain within and near loop 2.
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- Karen Kempler
- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and the Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine 32080
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- Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University Pázmány P.s. 1/c. Budapest 1117, Hungary
- Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1762
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- Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1762
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and the Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine 32080
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and the Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine 32080
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- Proteomics Core of the ICBR, University of Florida, Gainesville 32010
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville 32010
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- Proteomics Core of the ICBR, University of Florida, Gainesville 32010
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- Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1762
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and the Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine 32080
- CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Barbara-Anne Battelle, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, 9505 Ocean Shore Blvd. St. Augustine, FL 32080. Tel. 904-461-4022; Fax 904-461-008;
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van Bodegraven AA, Curley CR, Hunt KA, Monsuur AJ, Linskens RK, Onnie CM, Crusius JBA, Annese V, Latiano A, Silverberg MS, Bitton A, Fisher SA, Steinhart AH, Forbes A, Sanderson J, Prescott NJ, Strachan DP, Playford RJ, Mathew CG, Wijmenga C, Daly MJ, Rioux JD, van Heel DA. Genetic variation in myosin IXB is associated with ulcerative colitis. Gastroenterology 2006; 131:1768-74. [PMID: 17087940 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2006] [Accepted: 08/17/2006] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Common germline genetic variation in the 3' region of myosin IXB (MYO9B) has been associated recently with susceptibility to celiac disease, with a hypothesis that MYO9B variants might influence intestinal permeability. These findings suggested the current study investigating a possible further role for MYO9B variation in inflammatory bowel disease. METHODS Eight single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were selected to tag common haplotypes from the 35-kb 3' region of MYO9B. These included the strongest celiac disease-associated variants reported in a Dutch cohort. These SNPs were studied in 3 independently collected and genotyped case-control cohorts of European descent (UK, Dutch, and Canadian/Italian), comprising in total 2717 inflammatory bowel disease patients (1197 with Crohn's disease, 1520 with ulcerative colitis) and 4440 controls. RESULTS Common variation in MYO9B was associated with susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease in all 3 cohorts examined (most associated SNP, rs1545620; meta-analysis P = 1.9 x 10(-6); odds ratio, 1.2), with the same alleles showing association as reported for celiac disease. CONCLUSIONS MYO9B genetic variants predispose to inflammatory bowel disease. Interestingly, rs1545620 is a nonsynonymous variant leading to an amino acid change (Ala1011Ser) in the third calmodulin binding IQ domain of MYO9B. Unlike previous variants (in other genes) reported to predispose to inflammatory bowel disease, the association at MYO9B was considerably stronger with ulcerative colitis, although weaker association with Crohn's disease also was observed. These data imply shared causal mechanisms underlying intestinal inflammatory diseases.
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Krzysiak TC, Gilbert SP. Dimeric Eg5 maintains processivity through alternating-site catalysis with rate-limiting ATP hydrolysis. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:39444-54. [PMID: 17062577 PMCID: PMC1866285 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m608056200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Eg5/KSP is a homotetrameric, Kinesin-5 family member whose ability to cross-link microtubules has associated it with mitotic spindle assembly and dynamics for chromosome segregation. Transient-state kinetic methodologies have been used to dissect the mechanochemical cycle of a dimeric motor, Eg5-513, to better understand the cooperative interactions that modulate processive stepping. Microtubule association, ADP release, and ATP binding are all fast steps in the pathway. However, the acid-quench analysis of the kinetics of ATP hydrolysis with substrate in excess of motor was unable to resolve a burst of product formation during the first turnover event. In addition, the kinetics of P(i) release and ATP-promoted microtubule-Eg5 dissociation were observed to be no faster than the rate of ATP hydrolysis. In combination the data suggest that dimeric Eg5 is the first kinesin motor identified to have a rate-limiting ATP hydrolysis step. Furthermore, several lines of evidence implicate alternating-site catalysis as the molecular mechanism underlying dimeric Eg5 processivity. Both mantATP binding and mantADP release transients are biphasic. Analysis of ATP hydrolysis through single turnover assays indicates a surprising substrate concentration dependence, where the observed rate is reduced by half when substrate concentration is sufficiently high to require both motor domains of the dimer to participate in the reaction.
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- Troy C Krzysiak
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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Kambara T, Komaba S, Ikebe M. Human myosin III is a motor having an extremely high affinity for actin. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:37291-301. [PMID: 17012748 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m603823200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Myosin IIIA is expressed in photoreceptor cells and thought to play a critical role in phototransduction processes, yet its function on a molecular basis is largely unknown. Here we clarified the kinetic mechanism of the ATPase cycle of human myosin IIIA. The steady-state ATPase activity was markedly activated approximately 10-fold with very low actin concentration. The rate of ADP off from actomyosin IIIA was 10 times greater than the overall cycling rate, thus not a rate-determining step. The rate constant of the ATP hydrolysis step of the actin-dissociated form was very slow, but the rate was markedly accelerated by actin binding. The dissociation constant of the ATP-bound form of myosin IIIA from actin is submicromolar, which agrees well with the low K(actin). These results indicate that ATP hydrolysis predominantly takes place in the actin-bound form for actomyosin IIIA ATPase reaction. The obtained K(actin) was much lower than the previously reported one, and we found that the autophosphorylation of myosin IIIA dramatically increased the K(actin), whereas the V(max) was unchanged. Our kinetic model indicates that both the actin-attached hydrolysis and the P(i) release steps determine the overall cycle rate of the dephosphorylated form. Although the stable steady-state intermediates of actomyosin IIIA ATPase reaction are not typical strong actin-binding intermediates, the affinity of the stable intermediates for actin is much higher than conventional weak actin binding forms. The present results suggest that myosin IIIA can spend a majority of its ATP hydrolysis cycling time on actin.
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- Taketoshi Kambara
- Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
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O'Connell CB, Tyska MJ, Mooseker MS. Myosin at work: motor adaptations for a variety of cellular functions. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2006; 1773:615-30. [PMID: 16904206 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2006.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2006] [Revised: 05/22/2006] [Accepted: 06/30/2006] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Cells have evolved multiple mechanisms to overcome the effects of entropy and diffusion to create a highly ordered environment. For cells to function properly, some components must be anchored to provide a framework or structure. Others must be rapidly transported over long distances to generate asymmetries in cell morphology and composition. To accomplish long-range transport, cells cannot rely on diffusion alone as many large organelles and macromolecular complexes are essentially immobilized by the dense meshwork of the cytosol. One strategy used by cells to overcome diffusion is to harness the free energy liberated by ATP hydrolysis through molecular motors. Myosins are a family of actin based molecular motors that have evolved a variety of ways to contribute to cellular organization through numerous modifications to the manner they convert that free energy into mechanical work.
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Geislinger B, Kawai R. Brownian molecular motors driven by rotation-translation coupling. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2006; 74:011912. [PMID: 16907132 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.74.011912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2006] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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We investigated three models of Brownian motors which convert rotational diffusion into directed translational motion by switching on and off a potential. In the first model a spatially asymmetric potential generates directed translational motion by rectifying rotational diffusion. It behaves much like a conventional flashing ratchet. The second model utilizes both rotational diffusion and drift to generate translational motion without spatial asymmetry in the potential. This second model can be driven by a combination of a Brownian motor mechanism (diffusion driven) or by powerstroke (drift driven) depending on the chosen parameters. In the third model, elements of both the Brownian motor and powerstroke mechanisms are combined by switching between three distinct states. Relevance of the model to biological motor proteins is discussed.
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- Brian Geislinger
- Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
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Nishikawa M, Nishikawa S, Inoue A, Iwane AH, Yanagida T, Ikebe M. A unique mechanism for the processive movement of single-headed myosin-IX. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 343:1159-64. [PMID: 16616011 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.03.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2006] [Accepted: 03/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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It has been puzzled that in spite of its single-headed structure, myosin-IX shows the typical character of processive motor in multi-molecule in vitro motility assay, because this cannot be explained by hand-over-hand mechanism of the two-headed processive myosins. Here, we show direct evidence of the processive movement of myosin-IX using two different single molecule techniques. Using optical trap nanometry, we found that myosin-IX takes several large ( approximately 20nm) steps before detaching from an actin filament. Furthermore, we directly visualized the single myosin-IX molecules moving on actin filaments for several hundred nanometers without dissociating from actin filament. Since myosin-IX processively moves without anchoring the neck domain, the result suggests that the neck tilting is not involved for the processive movement of myosin-IX. We propose that the myosin-IX head moves processively along an actin filament like an inchworm via a unique long and positively charged insertion in the loop 2 region of the head.
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- Masatoshi Nishikawa
- Department of Biophysical Engineering, Osaka University 1-3, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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Kambara T, Ikebe M. A unique ATP hydrolysis mechanism of single-headed processive myosin, myosin IX. J Biol Chem 2005; 281:4949-57. [PMID: 16338935 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m509141200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Recent studies have revealed that myosin IX is a single-headed processive myosin, yet it is unclear how myosin IX can achieve the processive movement. Here we studied the mechanism of ATP hydrolysis cycle of actomyosin IXb. We found that myosin IXb has a rate-limiting ATP hydrolysis step unlike other known myosins, thus populating the prehydrolysis intermediate (M.ATP). M.ATP has a high affinity for actin, and, unlike other myosins, the dissociation of M.ATP from actin was extremely slow, thus preventing myosin from dissociating away from actin. The ADP dissociation step was 10-fold faster than the overall ATP hydrolysis cycle rate and thus not rate-limiting. We propose the following model for single-headed processive myosin. Upon the formation of the M.ATP intermediate, the tight binding of actomyosin IX at the interface is weakened. However, the head is kept in close proximity to actin due to the tethering role of loop 2/large unique insertion of myosin IX. There is enough freedom for the myosin head to find the next location of the binding site along with the actin filament before complete dissociation from the filament. After ATP hydrolysis, Pi is quickly released to form a strong actin binding form, and a power stroke takes place.
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- Taketoshi Kambara
- Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
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