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Childers MC, Geeves MA, Regnier M. An atomistic model of myosin interacting heads motif dynamics and their modification by 2'-deoxy-ADP. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.06.597809. [PMID: 38895221 PMCID: PMC11185614 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.06.597809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
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The contraction of striated muscle is driven by cycling myosin motor proteins embedded within the thick filaments of sarcomeres. In addition to cross-bridge cycling with actin, these myosin proteins can enter an inactive, sequestered state in which the globular S1 heads rest along the thick filament surface and are unable to perform motor activities. Structurally, this state is called the interacting heads motif (IHM) and is a critical conformational state of myosin that regulates muscle contractility and energy expenditure. Structural perturbation of the sequestered state via missense mutations can pathologically disrupt the mechanical performance of muscle tissue. Thus, the IHM state has become a target for therapeutic intervention. An ATP analogue called 2'-deoxy-ATP (dATP) is a potent myosin activator which destabilizes the IHM. Here we use molecular dynamics simulations to study the molecular mechanisms by which dATP modifies the structure and dynamics of myosin in a sequestered state. Simulations with IHM containing ADP.Pi in both nucleotide binding pockets revealed residual dynamics in an otherwise 'inactive' and 'sequestered' state of a motor protein. Replacement of ADP.Pi by dADP.Pi triggered a series of structural changes that modify the protein-protein interface that stabilizes the sequestered state, and changes to this interface were accompanied by allosteric changes in remote regions of the protein complex. A comparative analysis of these dynamics predicted new structural sites that may affect IHM stability.
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Solaro RJ, Goldspink PH, Wolska BM. Emerging Concepts of Mechanisms Controlling Cardiac Tension: Focus on Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) and Sarcomere-Directed Therapies. Biomedicines 2024; 12:999. [PMID: 38790961 PMCID: PMC11117855 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines12050999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2024] [Revised: 04/28/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024] Open
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Novel therapies for the treatment of familial dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) are lacking. Shaping research directions to clinical needs is critical. Triggers for the progression of the disorder commonly occur due to specific gene variants that affect the production of sarcomeric/cytoskeletal proteins. Generally, these variants cause a decrease in tension by the myofilaments, resulting in signaling abnormalities within the micro-environment, which over time result in structural and functional maladaptations, leading to heart failure (HF). Current concepts support the hypothesis that the mutant sarcomere proteins induce a causal depression in the tension-time integral (TTI) of linear preparations of cardiac muscle. However, molecular mechanisms underlying tension generation particularly concerning mutant proteins and their impact on sarcomere molecular signaling are currently controversial. Thus, there is a need for clarification as to how mutant proteins affect sarcomere molecular signaling in the etiology and progression of DCM. A main topic in this controversy is the control of the number of tension-generating myosin heads reacting with the thin filament. One line of investigation proposes that this number is determined by changes in the ratio of myosin heads in a sequestered super-relaxed state (SRX) or in a disordered relaxed state (DRX) poised for force generation upon the Ca2+ activation of the thin filament. Contrasting evidence from nanometer-micrometer-scale X-ray diffraction in intact trabeculae indicates that the SRX/DRX states may have a lesser role. Instead, the proposal is that myosin heads are in a basal OFF state in relaxation then transfer to an ON state through a mechano-sensing mechanism induced during early thin filament activation and increasing thick filament strain. Recent evidence about the modulation of these mechanisms by protein phosphorylation has also introduced a need for reconsidering the control of tension. We discuss these mechanisms that lead to different ideas related to how tension is disturbed by levels of mutant sarcomere proteins linked to the expression of gene variants in the complex landscape of DCM. Resolving the various mechanisms and incorporating them into a unified concept is crucial for gaining a comprehensive understanding of DCM. This deeper understanding is not only important for diagnosis and treatment strategies with small molecules, but also for understanding the reciprocal signaling processes that occur between cardiac myocytes and their micro-environment. By unraveling these complexities, we can pave the way for improved therapeutic interventions for managing DCM.
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- R. John Solaro
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Cardiovascular Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; (P.H.G.); (B.M.W.)
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Cardiovascular Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; (P.H.G.); (B.M.W.)
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Cardiovascular Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; (P.H.G.); (B.M.W.)
- Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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Kelly CM, Martin JL, Previs MJ. Myosin folding boosts solubility in cardiac muscle sarcomeres. JCI Insight 2024; 9:e178131. [PMID: 38483507 PMCID: PMC11141871 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.178131] [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: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/23/2024] Open
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The polymerization of myosin molecules into thick filaments in muscle sarcomeres is essential for cardiac contractility, with the attenuation of interactions between the heads of myosin molecules within the filaments being proposed to result in hypercontractility, as observed in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). However, experimental evidence demonstrates that the structure of these giant macromolecular complexes is highly dynamic, with molecules exchanging between the filaments and a pool of soluble molecules on the minute timescale. Therefore, we sought to test the hypothesis that the enhancement of interactions between the heads of myosin molecules within thick filaments limits the mobility of myosin by taking advantage of mavacamten, a small molecule approved for the treatment of HCM. Myosin molecules were labeled in vivo with a green fluorescent protein (GFP) and imaged in intact hearts using multiphoton microscopy. Treatment of the intact hearts with mavacamten resulted in an unexpected > 5-fold enhancement in GFP-myosin mobility within the sarcomere. In vitro biochemical assays suggested that mavacamten enhanced the mobility of GFP-myosin by increasing the solubility of myosin molecules, through the stabilization of a compact/folded conformation of the molecules, once disassociated from the thick filaments. These findings provide alternative insight into the mechanisms by which molecules exchange into and out of thick filaments and have implications for how mavacamten may affect cardiac contractility.
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- Colleen M Kelly
- Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Department, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA
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- Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Department, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
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Liu X, Shu S. Suggesting Dictyostelium as a Model for Disease-Related Protein Studies through Myosin II Polymerization Pathway. Cells 2024; 13:263. [PMID: 38334655 PMCID: PMC10854627 DOI: 10.3390/cells13030263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2023] [Revised: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 01/27/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024] Open
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Dictyostelium myosin II displays remarkable dynamism within the cell, continually undergoing polymerization and depolymerization processes. Under low-ion conditions, it assumes a folded structure like muscle myosins and forms thick filaments through polymerization. In our study, we presented intermediate structures observed during the early stages of polymerization of purified myosin via negative staining electron microscopy, immediately crosslinked with glutaraldehyde at the onset of polymerization. We identified folded monomers, dimers, and tetramers in the process. Our findings suggest that Dictyostelium myosin II follows a polymerization pathway in vitro akin to muscle myosin, with folded monomers forming folded parallel and antiparallel dimers that subsequently associate to create folded tetramers. These folded tetramers eventually unfold and associate with other tetramers to produce long filaments. Furthermore, our research revealed that ATP influences filament size, reducing it regardless of the status of RLC phosphorylation while significantly increasing the critical polymerization concentrations from 0.2 to 9 nM. In addition, we demonstrate the morphology of fully matured Dictyostelium myosin II filaments.
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Bharda AV, Jung HS. A simple and rapid preparation of smooth muscle myosin 2 for the electron microscopic analysis. Appl Microsc 2024; 54:1. [PMID: 38165512 PMCID: PMC10761634 DOI: 10.1186/s42649-023-00094-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/24/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
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There has been an increase in the demand for purified protein as a result of recent developments in the structural biology of myosin 2. Although promising, current practices in myosin purification are usually time-consuming and cumbersome. The reported increased actin to myosin ratio in smooth muscles adds to the complexity of the purification process. Present study outlines a streamlined approach to isolate smooth muscle myosin 2 molecules from actomyosin suspension of chicken gizzard tissues. The procedure entails treating actomyosin for a brief period with actin-binding peptide phalloidin, followed by co-sedimentation and short column size exclusion chromatography. Typical myosin molecule with heavy and light chains and approximately 95% purity was examined using gel electrophoresis. Negative staining electron microscopy and image processing showed intact 10S myosin 2 molecules, proving that phalloidin is effective at eliminating majority of actin in the form of F-actin without dramatic alteration in the structure of myosin. The entire purification discussed here can be completed in a few hours, and further analysis can be done the same day. Thus, by offering quick and fresh supplies of native myosin molecules suited for structural research, specially cryo-electron microscopy, this innovative approach can be adapted to get around the drawbacks of time-intensive myosin purifying processes.
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- Anahita Vispi Bharda
- Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon, 24341, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon, 24341, Republic of Korea.
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Casas-Mao D, Carrington G, Pujol MG, Peckham M. Effects of specific disease mutations in non-muscle myosin 2A on its structure and function. J Biol Chem 2024; 300:105514. [PMID: 38042490 PMCID: PMC10770755 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105514] [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: 08/31/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 12/04/2023] Open
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Non-muscle myosin 2A (NM2A), a widely expressed class 2 myosin, is important for organizing actin filaments in cells. It cycles between a compact inactive 10S state in which its regulatory light chain (RLC) is dephosphorylated and a filamentous state in which the myosin heads interact with actin, and the RLC is phosphorylated. Over 170 missense mutations in MYH9, the gene that encodes the NM2A heavy chain, have been described. These cause MYH9 disease, an autosomal-dominant disorder that leads to bleeding disorders, kidney disease, cataracts, and deafness. Approximately two-thirds of these mutations occur in the coiled-coil tail. These mutations could destabilize the 10S state and/or disrupt filament formation or both. To test this, we determined the effects of six specific mutations using multiple approaches, including circular dichroism to detect changes in secondary structure, negative stain electron microscopy to analyze 10S and filament formation in vitro, and imaging of GFP-NM2A in fixed and live cells to determine filament assembly and dynamics. Two mutations in D1424 (D1424G and D1424N) and V1516M strongly decrease 10S stability and have limited effects on filament formation in vitro. In contrast, mutations in D1447 and E1841K, decrease 10S stability less strongly but increase filament lengths in vitro. The dynamic behavior of all mutants was altered in cells. Thus, the positions of mutated residues and their roles in filament formation and 10S stabilization are key to understanding their contributions to NM2A in disease.
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- David Casas-Mao
- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology & School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology & School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology & School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology & School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
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Månsson A. Changing face of contractile activation in striated muscle at physiological temperature. J Gen Physiol 2023; 155:e202313494. [PMID: 37934475 PMCID: PMC10630095 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202313494] [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] [Indexed: 11/08/2023] Open
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Calcium binding to troponin, with subsequent displacement of its linked tropomyosin molecule on the thin filament surface, cooperates with myosin binding to actin in the contractile regulation of striated muscle. The intertwined role of these systems is studied in the present issue of JGP by Ishii et al. (https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.202313414). A particularly interesting feature of the paper, except for studying both skeletal and cardiac muscle proteins, is that the experiments unlike most other similar studies are performed at physiological temperature (35-40°C).
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- Alf Månsson
- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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Schiller NR, Almuhanna SA, Hoppe PE. UNC-82/NUAK kinase is required by myosin A, but not myosin B, to assemble and function in the thick filament arms of C. elegans striated muscle. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 2023. [PMID: 37983932 DOI: 10.1002/cm.21807] [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: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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The mechanisms that ensure proper assembly, activity, and turnover of myosin II filaments are fundamental to a diverse range of cellular processes. In Caenorhabditis elegans striated muscle, thick filaments contain two myosins that are functionally distinct and spatially segregated. Using transgenic double mutants, we demonstrate that the ability of increased myosin A expression to restore muscle structure and movement in myosin B mutants requires UNC-82/NUAK kinase activity. Myosin B function appears unaffected in the kinase-impaired unc-82(e1220) mutant: the recessive antimorphic effects on early assembly of paramyosin and myosin A in this mutant are counteracted by increased myosin B expression and exacerbated by loss of myosin B. Using chimeric myosins and motility assays, we mapped the region of myosin A that requires UNC-82 activity to a 531-amino-acid region of the coiled-coil rod. This region includes the 264-amino-acid Region 1, which is sufficient in chimeric myosins to rescue the essential filament-initiation function of myosin A, as well as two sites that interact with myosin head domains in the Interacting Heads Motif. A specific physical interaction between myosin A and UNC-82::GFP is supported by GFP labeling of ectopic myosin A filaments but not thin filaments. We hypothesize that UNC-82 regulates assembly competence of myosin A during parallel assembly in the filament arms.
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- NaTasha R Schiller
- Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
- Biology Department, Wingate University, Wingate, North Carolina, USA
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- Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
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Abbasi Yeganeh F, Rastegarpouyani H, Li J, Taylor KA. Structure of the Drosophila melanogaster Flight Muscle Myosin Filament at 4.7 Å Resolution Reveals New Details of Non-Myosin Proteins. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:14936. [PMID: 37834384 PMCID: PMC10573858 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241914936] [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: 09/03/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023] Open
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Striated muscle thick filaments are composed of myosin II and several non-myosin proteins which define the filament length and modify its function. Myosin II has a globular N-terminal motor domain comprising its catalytic and actin-binding activities and a long α-helical, coiled tail that forms the dense filament backbone. Myosin alone polymerizes into filaments of irregular length, but striated muscle thick filaments have defined lengths that, with thin filaments, define the sarcomere structure. The motor domain structure and function are well understood, but the myosin filament backbone is not. Here we report on the structure of the flight muscle thick filaments from Drosophila melanogaster at 4.7 Å resolution, which eliminates previous ambiguities in non-myosin densities. The full proximal S2 region is resolved, as are the connecting densities between the Ig domains of stretchin-klp. The proteins, flightin, and myofilin are resolved in sufficient detail to build an atomic model based on an AlphaFold prediction. Our results suggest a method by which flightin and myofilin cooperate to define the structure of the thick filament and explains a key myosin mutation that affects flightin incorporation. Drosophila is a genetic model organism for which our results can define strategies for functional testing.
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- Fatemeh Abbasi Yeganeh
- Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380, USA; (F.A.Y.); (H.R.); (J.L.)
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- Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380, USA; (F.A.Y.); (H.R.); (J.L.)
- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380, USA; (F.A.Y.); (H.R.); (J.L.)
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- Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380, USA; (F.A.Y.); (H.R.); (J.L.)
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Hojjatian A, Taylor DW, Daneshparvar N, Fagnant PM, Trybus KM, Taylor KA. Double-headed binding of myosin II to F-actin shows the effect of strain on head structure. J Struct Biol 2023; 215:107995. [PMID: 37414375 PMCID: PMC10544818 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2023.107995] [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: 04/04/2022] [Revised: 06/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/08/2023]
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Force production in muscle is achieved through the interaction of myosin and actin. Strong binding states in active muscle are associated with Mg·ADP bound to the active site; release of Mg·ADP allows rebinding of ATP and dissociation from actin. Thus, Mg·ADP binding is positioned for adaptation as a force sensor. Mechanical loads on the lever arm can affect the ability of myosin to release Mg·ADP but exactly how this is done is poorly defined. Here we use F-actin decorated with double-headed smooth muscle myosin fragments in the presence of Mg·ADP to visualize the effect of internally supplied tension on the paired lever arms using cryoEM. The interaction of the paired heads with two adjacent actin subunits is predicted to place one lever arm under positive and the other under negative strain. The converter domain is believed to be the most flexible domain within myosin head. Our results, instead, point to the segment of heavy chain between the essential and regulatory light chains as the location of the largest structural change. Moreover, our results suggest no large changes in the myosin coiled coil tail as the locus of strain relief when both heads bind F-actin. The method would be adaptable to double-headed members of the myosin family. We anticipate that the study of actin-myosin interaction using double-headed fragments enables visualization of domains that are typically noisy in decoration with single-headed fragments.
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- Alimohammad Hojjatian
- Inst. of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States
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- Inst. of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States
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- Inst. of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States
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- Dept of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05405, United States
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- Dept of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05405, United States
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- Inst. of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States.
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Brito C, Pereira JM, Mesquita FS, Cabanes D, Sousa S. Src-Dependent NM2A Tyrosine Phosphorylation Regulates Actomyosin Remodeling. Cells 2023; 12:1871. [PMID: 37508535 PMCID: PMC10377941 DOI: 10.3390/cells12141871] [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: 06/07/2023] [Revised: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Non-muscle myosin 2A (NM2A) is a key cytoskeletal enzyme that, along with actin, assembles into actomyosin filaments inside cells. NM2A is fundamental for cell adhesion and motility, playing important functions in different stages of development and during the progression of viral and bacterial infections. Phosphorylation events regulate the activity and the cellular localization of NM2A. We previously identified the tyrosine phosphorylation of residue 158 (pTyr158) in the motor domain of the NM2A heavy chain. This phosphorylation can be promoted by Listeria monocytogenes infection of epithelial cells and is dependent on Src kinase; however, its molecular role is unknown. Here, we show that the status of pTyr158 defines cytoskeletal organization, affects the assembly/disassembly of focal adhesions, and interferes with cell migration. Cells overexpressing a non-phosphorylatable NM2A variant or expressing reduced levels of Src kinase display increased stress fibers and larger focal adhesions, suggesting an altered contraction status consistent with the increased NM2A activity that we also observed. We propose NM2A pTyr158 as a novel layer of regulation of actomyosin cytoskeleton organization.
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- Cláudia Brito
- i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
- IBMC, Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
- MCBiology PhD Program-Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar-ICBAS, University of Porto, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
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- i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
- IBMC, Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
- MCBiology PhD Program-Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar-ICBAS, University of Porto, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
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- i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
- IBMC, Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
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- i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
- IBMC, Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
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- i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
- IBMC, Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
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Grinzato A, Auguin D, Kikuti C, Nandwani N, Moussaoui D, Pathak D, Kandiah E, Ruppel KM, Spudich JA, Houdusse A, Robert-Paganin J. Cryo-EM structure of the folded-back state of human β-cardiac myosin. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3166. [PMID: 37258552 PMCID: PMC10232470 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38698-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023] Open
Abstract
To save energy and precisely regulate cardiac contractility, cardiac muscle myosin heads are sequestered in an 'off' state that can be converted to an 'on' state when exertion is increased. The 'off' state is equated with a folded-back structure known as the interacting-heads motif (IHM), which is a regulatory feature of all class-2 muscle and non-muscle myosins. We report here the human β-cardiac myosin IHM structure determined by cryo-electron microscopy to 3.6 Å resolution, providing details of all the interfaces stabilizing the 'off' state. The structure shows that these interfaces are hot spots of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutations that are thought to cause hypercontractility by destabilizing the 'off' state. Importantly, the cardiac and smooth muscle myosin IHM structures dramatically differ, providing structural evidence for the divergent physiological regulation of these muscle types. The cardiac IHM structure will facilitate development of clinically useful new molecules that modulate IHM stability.
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- Alessandro Grinzato
- CM01 beamline. European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France
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- Structural Motility, Institut Curie, Paris Université Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR144, F-75005, Paris, France
- Laboratoire de Biologie des Ligneux et des Grandes Cultures, Université d'Orléans, UPRES EA 1207, INRA-USC1328, F-45067, Orléans, France
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- Structural Motility, Institut Curie, Paris Université Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR144, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- BM29 BIOSAXS beamline, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- CM01 beamline. European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Structural Motility, Institut Curie, Paris Université Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR144, F-75005, Paris, France.
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- Structural Motility, Institut Curie, Paris Université Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR144, F-75005, Paris, France.
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Non-muscle myosin 2 (NM2) motors are the major contractile machines in most cell types. Unsurprisingly, these ubiquitously expressed actin-based motors power a plethora of subcellular, cellular and multicellular processes. In this Cell Science at a Glance article and the accompanying poster, we review the biochemical properties and mechanisms of regulation of this myosin. We highlight the central role of NM2 in multiple fundamental cellular processes, which include cell migration, cytokinesis, epithelial barrier function and tissue morphogenesis. In addition, we highlight recent studies using advanced imaging technologies that have revealed aspects of NM2 assembly hitherto inaccessible. This article will hopefully appeal to both cytoskeletal enthusiasts and investigators from outside the cytoskeleton field who have interests in one of the many basic cellular processes requiring actomyosin force production.
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- Melissa A. Quintanilla
- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60525, USA
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60525, USA
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Under relaxing conditions, the two heads of myosin II interact with each other and with the proximal part (S2) of the myosin tail, establishing the interacting-heads motif (IHM), found in myosin molecules and thick filaments of muscle and nonmuscle cells. The IHM is normally thought of as a single, unique structure, but there are several variants. In the simplest ("canonical") IHM, occurring in most relaxed thick filaments and in heavy meromyosin, the interacting heads bend back and interact with S2, and the motif lies parallel to the filament surface. In one variant, occurring in insect indirect flight muscle, there is no S2-head interaction and the motif is perpendicular to the filament. In a second variant, found in smooth and nonmuscle single myosin molecules in their inhibited (10S) conformation, S2 is shifted ∼20 Å from the canonical form and the tail folds twice and wraps around the interacting heads. These molecule and filament IHM variants have important energetic and pathophysiological consequences. (1) The canonical motif, with S2-head interaction, correlates with the super-relaxed (SRX) state of myosin. The absence of S2-head interaction in insects may account for the lower stability of this IHM and apparent absence of SRX in indirect flight muscle, contributing to the quick initiation of flight in insects. (2) The ∼20 Å shift of S2 in 10S myosin molecules means that S2-head interactions are different from those in the canonical IHM. This variant therefore cannot be used to analyze the impact of myosin mutations on S2-head interactions that occur in filaments, as has been proposed. It can be used, instead, to analyze the structural impact of mutations in smooth and nonmuscle myosin.
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- Raúl Padrón
- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
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Lewis CTA, Ochala J. Myosin Heavy Chain as a Novel Key Modulator of Striated Muscle Resting State. Physiology (Bethesda) 2023; 38:0. [PMID: 36067133 DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00018.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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After years of intense research using structural, biological, and biochemical experimental procedures, it is clear that myosin molecules are essential for striated muscle contraction. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg of their function. Interestingly, it has been shown recently that these molecules (especially myosin heavy chains) are also crucial for cardiac and skeletal muscle resting state. In the present review, we first overview myosin heavy chain biochemical states and how they influence the consumption of ATP. We then detail how neighboring partner proteins including myosin light chains and myosin binding protein C intervene in such processes, modulating the ATP demand in health and disease. Finally, we present current experimental drugs targeting myosin ATP consumption and how they can treat muscle diseases.
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Rasicci DV, Tiwari P, Bodt SML, Desetty R, Sadler FR, Sivaramakrishnan S, Craig R, Yengo CM. Dilated cardiomyopathy mutation E525K in human beta-cardiac myosin stabilizes the interacting-heads motif and super-relaxed state of myosin. eLife 2022; 11:e77415. [PMID: 36422472 PMCID: PMC9691020 DOI: 10.7554/elife.77415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The auto-inhibited, super-relaxed (SRX) state of cardiac myosin is thought to be crucial for regulating contraction, relaxation, and energy conservation in the heart. We used single ATP turnover experiments to demonstrate that a dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) mutation (E525K) in human beta-cardiac myosin increases the fraction of myosin heads in the SRX state (with slow ATP turnover), especially in physiological ionic strength conditions. We also utilized FRET between a C-terminal GFP tag on the myosin tail and Cy3ATP bound to the active site of the motor domain to estimate the fraction of heads in the closed, interacting-heads motif (IHM); we found a strong correlation between the IHM and SRX state. Negative stain electron microscopy and 2D class averaging of the construct demonstrated that the E525K mutation increased the fraction of molecules adopting the IHM. Overall, our results demonstrate that the E525K DCM mutation may reduce muscle force and power by stabilizing the auto-inhibited SRX state. Our studies also provide direct evidence for a correlation between the SRX biochemical state and the IHM structural state in cardiac muscle myosin. Furthermore, the E525 residue may be implicated in crucial electrostatic interactions that modulate this conserved, auto-inhibited conformation of myosin.
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- David V Rasicci
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State College of MedicineHersheyUnited States
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, UMass Chan Medical SchoolWorcesterUnited States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State College of MedicineHersheyUnited States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State College of MedicineHersheyUnited States
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota Twin CitiesMinneapolisUnited States
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- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota Twin CitiesMinneapolisUnited States
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, UMass Chan Medical SchoolWorcesterUnited States
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State College of MedicineHersheyUnited States
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Bharda AV, Jung HS. Review on the structural understanding of the 10S myosin II in the era of Cryo-electron microscopy. Appl Microsc 2022; 52:9. [PMID: 36216992 PMCID: PMC9550946 DOI: 10.1186/s42649-022-00078-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The compact smooth muscle 10S myosin II is a type of a monomer with folded tail and the heads bending back to interact with each other. This inactivated form is associated with regulatory and enzymatic activities affecting myosin processivity with actin filaments as well as ATPase activity. Phosphorylation by RLC can however, shuttle myosin from the inhibited 10S state to an activated 6S state, dictating the equilibrium. Multiple studies contributed by TEM have provided insights in the structural understanding of the 10S form. However, it is only recently that the true potential of Cryo-EM in deciphering the intramolecular interactions of 10S myosin state has been realized. This has led to an influx of new revelations on the 10S inactivation, unfolding mechanism and association in various diseases. This study reviews the gradual development in the structural interpretation of 10S species from TEM to Cryo-EM era. Furthermore, we discuss the utility of Cryo-EM in future myosin 10S studies and its contribution to human health.
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- Anahita Vispi Bharda
- grid.412010.60000 0001 0707 9039Division of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon 24341 Republic of Korea
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- grid.412010.60000 0001 0707 9039Division of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon 24341 Republic of Korea
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Kawana M, Spudich JA, Ruppel KM. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Mutations to mechanisms to therapies. Front Physiol 2022; 13:975076. [PMID: 36225299 PMCID: PMC9548533 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.975076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) affects more than 1 in 500 people in the general population with an extensive burden of morbidity in the form of arrhythmia, heart failure, and sudden death. More than 25 years since the discovery of the genetic underpinnings of HCM, the field has unveiled significant insights into the primary effects of these genetic mutations, especially for the myosin heavy chain gene, which is one of the most commonly mutated genes. Our group has studied the molecular effects of HCM mutations on human β-cardiac myosin heavy chain using state-of-the-art biochemical and biophysical tools for the past 10 years, combining insights from clinical genetics and structural analyses of cardiac myosin. The overarching hypothesis is that HCM-causing mutations in sarcomere proteins cause hypercontractility at the sarcomere level, and we have shown that an increase in the number of myosin molecules available for interaction with actin is a primary driver. Recently, two pharmaceutical companies have developed small molecule inhibitors of human cardiac myosin to counteract the molecular consequences of HCM pathogenesis. One of these inhibitors (mavacamten) has recently been approved by the FDA after completing a successful phase III trial in HCM patients, and the other (aficamten) is currently being evaluated in a phase III trial. Myosin inhibitors will be the first class of medication used to treat HCM that has both robust clinical trial evidence of efficacy and that targets the fundamental mechanism of HCM pathogenesis. The success of myosin inhibitors in HCM opens the door to finding other new drugs that target the sarcomere directly, as we learn more about the genetics and fundamental mechanisms of this disease.
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- Masataka Kawana
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States,Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States,*Correspondence: Kathleen M. Ruppel,
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Koubassova NA, Tsaturyan AK, Bershitsky SY, Ferenczi MA, Padrón R, Craig R. Interacting-heads motif explains the X-ray diffraction pattern of relaxed vertebrate skeletal muscle. Biophys J 2022; 121:1354-1366. [PMID: 35318005 PMCID: PMC9072692 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.03.023] [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: 01/10/2022] [Revised: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Electron microscopy (EM) shows that myosin heads in thick filaments isolated from striated muscles interact with each other and with the myosin tail under relaxing conditions. This "interacting-heads motif" (IHM) is highly conserved across the animal kingdom and is thought to be the basis of the super-relaxed state. However, a recent X-ray modeling study concludes, contrary to expectation, that the IHM is not present in relaxed intact muscle. We propose that this conclusion results from modeling with a thick filament 3D reconstruction in which the myosin heads have radially collapsed onto the thick filament backbone, not from absence of the IHM. Such radial collapse, by about 3-4 nm, is well established in EM studies of negatively stained myosin filaments, on which the reconstruction was based. We have tested this idea by carrying out similar X-ray modeling and determining the effect of the radial position of the heads on the goodness of fit to the X-ray pattern. We find that, when the IHM is modeled into a thick filament at a radius 3-4 nm greater than that modeled in the recent study, there is good agreement with the X-ray pattern. When the original (collapsed) radial position is used, the fit is poor, in agreement with that study. We show that modeling of the low-angle region of the X-ray pattern is relatively insensitive to the conformation of the myosin heads but very sensitive to their radial distance from the filament axis. We conclude that the IHM is sufficient to explain the X-ray diffraction pattern of intact muscle when placed at the appropriate radius.
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- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia
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- Brunel Medical School, College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Sato O, Sakai T, Choo YY, Ikebe R, Watanabe TM, Ikebe M. Mitochondria-associated myosin 19 processively transports mitochondria on actin tracks in living cells. J Biol Chem 2022; 298:101883. [PMID: 35367209 PMCID: PMC9065997 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Revised: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Mitochondria are fundamentally important in cell function, and their malfunction can cause the development of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neuronal disorders. Myosin 19 (Myo19) shows discrete localization with mitochondria and is thought to play an important role in mitochondrial dynamics and function; however, the function of Myo19 in mitochondrial dynamics at the cellular and molecular levels is poorly understood. Critical missing information is whether Myo19 is a processive motor that is suitable for transportation of mitochondria. Here, we show for the first time that single Myo19 molecules processively move on actin filaments and can transport mitochondria in cells. We demonstrate that Myo19 dimers having a leucine zipper processively moved on cellular actin tracks in demembraned cells with a velocity of 50 to 60 nm/s and a run length of ∼0.4 μm, similar to the movement of isolated mitochondria from Myo19 dimer-transfected cells on actin tracks, suggesting that the Myo19 dimer can transport mitochondria. Furthermore, we show single molecules of Myo19 dimers processively moved on single actin filaments with a large step size of ∼34 nm. Importantly, WT Myo19 single molecules without the leucine zipper processively move in filopodia in living cells similar to Myo19 dimers, whereas deletion of the tail domain abolished such active movement. These results suggest that Myo19 can processively move on actin filaments when two Myo19 monomers form a dimer, presumably as a result of tail–tail association. In conclusion, Myo19 molecules can directly transport mitochondria on actin tracks within living cells.
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- Osamu Sato
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Health Science Center, University of Texas at Tyler, 11937 US Hwy 271, Tyler, TX 75708-3154, U.S.A
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Health Science Center, University of Texas at Tyler, 11937 US Hwy 271, Tyler, TX 75708-3154, U.S.A
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Health Science Center, University of Texas at Tyler, 11937 US Hwy 271, Tyler, TX 75708-3154, U.S.A
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Health Science Center, University of Texas at Tyler, 11937 US Hwy 271, Tyler, TX 75708-3154, U.S.A
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- Laboratory for Comprehensive Bioimaging, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, 2-2-3 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Health Science Center, University of Texas at Tyler, 11937 US Hwy 271, Tyler, TX 75708-3154, U.S.A..
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Variants in >12 genes encoding sarcomeric proteins can cause various cardiomyopathies. The two most common are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Current therapeutics do not target the root causes of these diseases, but attempt to prevent disease progression and/or to manage symptoms. Accordingly, novel approaches are being developed to treat the cardiac muscle dysfunction directly. Challenges to developing therapeutics for these diseases include the diverse mechanisms of pathogenesis, some of which are still being debated and defined. Four small molecules that modulate the myosin motor protein in the cardiac sarcomere have shown great promise in the settings of HCM and DCM, regardless of the underlying genetic pathogenesis, and similar approaches are being developed to target other components of the sarcomere. In the setting of HCM, mavacamten and aficamten bind to the myosin motor and decrease the ATPase activity of myosin. In the setting of DCM, omecamtiv mecarbil and danicamtiv increase myosin activity in cardiac muscle (but omecamtiv mecarbil decreases myosin activity in vitro). In this Review, we discuss the therapeutic strategies to alter sarcomere contractile activity and summarize the data indicating that targeting one protein in the sarcomere can be effective in treating patients with genetic variants in other sarcomeric proteins, as well as in patients with non-sarcomere-based disease.
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Suay-Corredera C, Alegre-Cebollada J. The mechanics of the heart: zooming in on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cMyBP-C. FEBS Lett 2022; 596:703-746. [PMID: 35224729 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.14301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a disease characterized by cardiac muscle hypertrophy and hypercontractility, is the most frequently inherited disorder of the heart. HCM is mainly caused by variants in genes encoding proteins of the sarcomere, the basic contractile unit of cardiomyocytes. The most frequently mutated among them is MYBPC3, which encodes cardiac myosin-binding protein C (cMyBP-C), a key regulator of sarcomere contraction. In this review, we summarize clinical and genetic aspects of HCM and provide updated information on the function of the healthy and HCM sarcomere, as well as on emerging therapeutic options targeting sarcomere mechanical activity. Building on what is known about cMyBP-C activity, we examine different pathogenicity drivers by which MYBPC3 variants can cause disease, focussing on protein haploinsufficiency as a common pathomechanism also in nontruncating variants. Finally, we discuss recent evidence correlating altered cMyBP-C mechanical properties with HCM development.
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Critical Evaluation of Current Hypotheses for the Pathogenesis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23042195. [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] [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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Super-relaxation is a state of muscle thick filaments in which ATP turnover by myosin is much slower than that of myosin II in solution. This inhibited state, in equilibrium with a faster (relaxed) state, is ubiquitous and thought to be fundamental to muscle function, acting as a mechanism for switching off energy-consuming myosin motors when they are not being used. The structural basis of super-relaxation is usually taken to be a motif formed by myosin in which the two heads interact with each other and with the proximal tail forming an interacting-heads motif, which switches the heads off. However, recent studies show that even isolated myosin heads can exhibit this slow rate. Here, we review the role of head interactions in creating the super-relaxed state and show how increased numbers of interactions in thick filaments underlie the high levels of super-relaxation found in intact muscle. We suggest how a third, even more inhibited, state of myosin (a hyper-relaxed state) seen in certain species results from additional interactions involving the heads. We speculate on the relationship between animal lifestyle and level of super-relaxation in different species and on the mechanism of formation of the super-relaxed state. We also review how super-relaxed thick filaments are activated and how the super-relaxed state is modulated in healthy and diseased muscles.
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- Roger Craig
- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
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Two Classes of Myosin Inhibitors, Para-nitroblebbistatin and Mavacamten, Stabilize β-Cardiac Myosin in Different Structural and Functional States. J Mol Biol 2021; 433:167295. [PMID: 34627791 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.167295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 09/28/2021] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In addition to a conventional relaxed state, a fraction of myosins in the cardiac muscle exists in a low-energy consuming super-relaxed (SRX) state, which is kept as a reserve pool that may be engaged under sustained increased cardiac demand. The conventional relaxed and the super-relaxed states are widely assumed to correspond to a structure where myosin heads are in an open configuration, free to interact with actin, and a closed configuration, inhibiting binding to actin, respectively. Disruption of the myosin SRX population is an emerging model in different heart diseases, such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which results in excessive muscle contraction, and stabilizing them using myosin inhibitors is budding as an attractive therapeutic strategy. Here we examined the structure-function relationships of two myosin ATPase inhibitors, mavacamten and para-nitroblebbistatin, and found that binding of mavacamten at a site different than para-nitroblebbistatin populates myosin into the SRX state. Para-nitroblebbistatin, binding to a distal pocket to the myosin lever arm near the nucleotide-binding site, does not affect the usual myosin SRX state but instead appears to render myosin into a new, perhaps much more inhibited, 'ultra-relaxed' state. X-ray scattering-based rigid body modeling shows that both mavacamten and para-nitroblebbistatin induce novel conformations in human β-cardiac heavy meromyosin that diverge significantly from the hypothetical open and closed states, and furthermore, mavacamten treatment causes greater compaction than para-nitroblebbistatin. Taken together, we conclude that mavacamten and para-nitroblebbistatin stabilize myosin in different structural states, and such states may give rise to different functional energy-sparing states.
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Kim HU, Bharda AV, Moon JC, Jeoung D, Chung JM, Jung HS. Microscopic studies on severing properties of actin-binding protein: its potential use in therapeutic treatment of actin-rich inclusions. J Anal Sci Technol 2021. [DOI: 10.1186/s40543-021-00305-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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AbstractActin is an important unit of the cytoskeletal system, involved in many cellular processes including cell motility, signaling, and intracellular trafficking. Various studies have been undertaken to understand the regulatory mechanisms pertaining actin functions, especially the ones controlled by actin-binding proteins. However, not much has been explored about the molecular aspects of these proteins implicated in various diseases. In this study, we aimed to demonstrate the molecular properties of gelsolin, an actin-severing protein on the disassembly of the aggregation of actin-rich intracellular inclusions, Hirano body. We observed a decreasing tendency of actin aggregation by co-sedimentation assay and transmission electron microscopy in the presence of gelsolin. Therefore, we provide suggestive evidence for the use of actin-severing protein in novel therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative conditions.
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Chu S, Muretta JM, Thomas DD. Direct detection of the myosin super-relaxed state and interacting-heads motif in solution. J Biol Chem 2021; 297:101157. [PMID: 34481842 PMCID: PMC8479475 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Revised: 08/31/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The interacting-heads motif (IHM) is a structure of myosin that has been proposed to modulate cardiac output by occluding myosin molecules from undergoing the force-generating cycle. It is hypothesized to be the structural basis for the super-relaxed state (SRX), a low-ATPase kinetic state thought to be cardioprotective. The goal of the present study was to test this hypothesis by determining directly and quantitatively the fractions of myosin in the IHM and SRX under the same conditions in solution. To detect the structural IHM, we used time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer to quantitate two distinct populations. One population was observed at a center distance of 2.0 nm, whereas the other was not detectable by fluorescence resonance energy transfer, implying a distance greater than 4 nm. We confirmed the IHM assignment to the 2.0-nm population by applying the same cross-linking protocol used previously to image the IHM by electron microscopy. Under the same conditions, we also measured the fraction of myosin in the SRX using stopped-flow kinetics. Our results show that the populations of SRX and IHM myosin were similar, unless treated with mavacamten, a drug that recently completed phase III clinical trials to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and is proposed to act by stabilizing both the SRX and IHM. However, we found that mavacamten had a much greater effect on the SRX (55% increase) than on the IHM (4% increase). We conclude that the IHM structure is sufficient but not necessary to produce the SRX kinetic state.
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- Sami Chu
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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Garrido-Casado M, Asensio-Juárez G, Vicente-Manzanares M. Nonmuscle Myosin II Regulation Directs Its Multiple Roles in Cell Migration and Division. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 2021; 37:285-310. [PMID: 34314591 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-042721-105528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Nonmuscle myosin II (NMII) is a multimeric protein complex that generates most mechanical force in eukaryotic cells. NMII function is controlled at three main levels. The first level includes events that trigger conformational changes that extend the complex to enable its assembly into filaments. The second level controls the ATPase activity of the complex and its binding to microfilaments in extended NMII filaments. The third level includes events that modulate the stability and contractility of the filaments. They all work in concert to finely control force generation inside cells. NMII is a common endpoint of mechanochemical signaling pathways that control cellular responses to physical and chemical extracellular cues. Specific phosphorylations modulate NMII activation in a context-dependent manner. A few kinases control these phosphorylations in a spatially, temporally, and lineage-restricted fashion, enabling functional adaptability to the cellular microenvironment. Here, we review mechanisms that control NMII activity in the context of cell migration and division. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, Volume 37 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Marina Garrido-Casado
- Molecular Mechanisms Program, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer and Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain;
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- Molecular Mechanisms Program, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer and Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain;
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- Molecular Mechanisms Program, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer and Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain;
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Sitbon YH, Diaz F, Kazmierczak K, Liang J, Wangpaichitr M, Szczesna-Cordary D. Cardiomyopathic mutations in essential light chain reveal mechanisms regulating the super relaxed state of myosin. THE JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 153:212172. [PMID: 34014247 PMCID: PMC8142263 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202012801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Revised: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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In this study, we assessed the super relaxed (SRX) state of myosin and sarcomeric protein phosphorylation in two pathological models of cardiomyopathy and in a near-physiological model of cardiac hypertrophy. The cardiomyopathy models differ in disease progression and severity and express the hypertrophic (HCM-A57G) or restrictive (RCM-E143K) mutations in the human ventricular myosin essential light chain (ELC), which is encoded by the MYL3 gene. Their effects were compared with near-physiological heart remodeling, represented by the N-terminally truncated ELC (Δ43 ELC mice), and with nonmutated human ventricular WT-ELC mice. The HCM-A57G and RCM-E143K mutations had antagonistic effects on the ATP-dependent myosin energetic states, with HCM-A57G cross-bridges fostering the disordered relaxed (DRX) state and the RCM-E143K model favoring the energy-conserving SRX state. The HCM-A57G model promoted the switch from the SRX to DRX state and showed an ∼40% increase in myosin regulatory light chain (RLC) phosphorylation compared with the RLC of normal WT-ELC myocardium. On the contrary, the RCM-E143K–associated stabilization of the SRX state was accompanied by an approximately twofold lower level of myosin RLC phosphorylation compared with the RLC of WT-ELC. Upregulation of RLC phosphorylation was also observed in Δ43 versus WT-ELC hearts, and the Δ43 myosin favored the energy-saving SRX conformation. The two disease variants also differently affected the duration of force transients, with shorter (HCM-A57G) or longer (RCM-E143K) transients measured in electrically stimulated papillary muscles from these pathological models, while no changes were displayed by Δ43 fibers. We propose that the N terminus of ELC (N-ELC), which is missing in the hearts of Δ43 mice, works as an energetic switch promoting the SRX-to-DRX transition and contributing to the regulation of myosin RLC phosphorylation in full-length ELC mice by facilitating or sterically blocking RLC phosphorylation in HCM-A57G and RCM-E143K hearts, respectively.
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- Yoel H Sitbon
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
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- Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
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Wang L, Chitano P, Seow CY. Filament evanescence of myosin II and smooth muscle function. J Gen Physiol 2021; 153:211814. [PMID: 33606000 PMCID: PMC7901143 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202012781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Smooth muscle is an integral part of hollow organs. Many of them are constantly subjected to mechanical forces that alter organ shape and modify the properties of smooth muscle. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying smooth muscle function in its dynamic mechanical environment, a new paradigm has emerged that depicts evanescence of myosin filaments as a key mechanism for the muscle’s adaptation to external forces in order to maintain optimal contractility. Unlike the bipolar myosin filaments of striated muscle, the side-polar filaments of smooth muscle appear to be less stable, capable of changing their lengths through polymerization and depolymerization (i.e., evanescence). In this review, we summarize accumulated knowledge on the structure and mechanism of filament formation of myosin II and on the influence of ionic strength, pH, ATP, myosin regulatory light chain phosphorylation, and mechanical perturbation on myosin filament stability. We discuss the scenario of intracellular pools of monomeric and filamentous myosin, length distribution of myosin filaments, and the regulatory mechanisms of filament lability in contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle. Based on recent findings, we suggest that filament evanescence is one of the fundamental mechanisms underlying smooth muscle’s ability to adapt to the external environment and maintain optimal function. Finally, we briefly discuss how increased ROCK protein expression in asthma may lead to altered myosin filament stability, which may explain the lack of deep-inspiration–induced bronchodilation and bronchoprotection in asthma.
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- Lu Wang
- Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,The Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,The Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,The Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Schmid M, Toepfer CN. Cardiac myosin super relaxation (SRX): a perspective on fundamental biology, human disease and therapeutics. Biol Open 2021; 10:10/2/bio057646. [PMID: 33589442 PMCID: PMC7904003 DOI: 10.1242/bio.057646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The fundamental basis of muscle contraction 'the sliding filament model' (Huxley and Niedergerke, 1954; Huxley and Hanson, 1954) and the 'swinging, tilting crossbridge-sliding filament mechanism' (Huxley, 1969; Huxley and Brown, 1967) nucleated a field of research that has unearthed the complex and fascinating role of myosin structure in the regulation of contraction. A recently discovered energy conserving state of myosin termed the super relaxed state (SRX) has been observed in filamentous myosins and is central to modulating force production and energy use within the sarcomere. Modulation of myosin function through SRX is a rapidly developing theme in therapeutic development for both cardiovascular disease and infectious disease. Some 70 years after the first discoveries concerning muscular function, modulation of myosin SRX may bring the first myosin targeted small molecule to the clinic, for treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Olivotto et al., 2020). An often monogenic disease HCM afflicts 1 in 500 individuals, and can cause heart failure and sudden cardiac death. Even as we near therapeutic translation, there remain many questions about the governance of muscle function in human health and disease. With this review, we provide a broad overview of contemporary understanding of myosin SRX, and explore the complexities of targeting this myosin state in human disease.This article has an associated Future Leaders to Watch interview with the authors of the paper.
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- Manuel Schmid
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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Since the discovery of muscle in the 19th century, myosins as molecular motors have been extensively studied. However, in the last decade, a new functional super-relaxed (SRX) state of myosin has been discovered, which has a 10-fold slower ATP turnover rate than the already-known non-actin-bound, disordered relaxed (DRX) state. These two states are in dynamic equilibrium under resting muscle conditions and are thought to be significant contributors to adaptive thermogenesis in skeletal muscle and can act as a reserve pool that may be recruited when there is a sustained demand for increased cardiac muscle power. This report provides an evolutionary perspective of how striated muscle contraction is regulated by modulating this myosin DRX↔SRX state equilibrium. We further discuss this equilibrium with respect to different physiological and pathophysiological perturbations, including insults causing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and small-molecule effectors that modulate muscle contractility in diseased pathology.
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- Suman Nag
- Department of Biology, MyoKardia IncBrisbaneUnited States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of MedicineStanfordUnited States
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Scarff CA, Carrington G, Casas-Mao D, Chalovich JM, Knight PJ, Ranson NA, Peckham M. Structure of the shutdown state of myosin-2. Nature 2020; 588:515-520. [PMID: 33268888 PMCID: PMC7611489 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2990-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Myosin-2 is essential for processes as diverse as cell division and muscle contraction. Dephosphorylation of its regulatory light chain (RLC) promotes an inactive, ‘shutdown’ state with the filament-forming tail folded onto the two heads1, preventing filament formation and inactivating the motors2. The mechanism by which this happens is obscure. Here we report a cryo-electron microscopy structure of shutdown smooth muscle myosin, with a resolution of 6 Å in the head region. A pseudo-atomic model, obtained by flexible fitting of crystal structures into the density and molecular dynamics simulations, describes interaction interfaces at the atomic level. The N-terminal extension of one RLC interacts with the tail and the other with the partner head, revealing how the RLCs stabilise the shutdown state in different ways and how their phosphorylation would allow myosin activation. Additional interactions between the three segments of the coiled coil, the motor domains and LCs stabilise the shutdown molecule. The structure of the lever in each head is competent to generate force upon activation. This shutdown structure is relevant to all myosin-2 isoforms and provides a framework for understanding their disease-causing mutations.
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- Charlotte A Scarff
- The Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.,School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- The Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.,School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- The Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.,School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
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- The Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.,School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- The Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.,School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- The Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. .,School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
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Yang S, Tiwari P, Lee KH, Sato O, Ikebe M, Padrón R, Craig R. Cryo-EM structure of the inhibited (10S) form of myosin II. Nature 2020; 588:521-525. [PMID: 33268893 PMCID: PMC7746622 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-3007-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Myosin II is the motor protein that enables muscle cells to contract and nonmuscle cells to move and change shape1. The molecule has two identical heads attached to an elongated tail, and can exist in two conformations: 10S and 6S, named for their sedimentation coefficients2,3. The 6S conformation has an extended tail and assembles into polymeric filaments, which pull on actin filaments to generate force and motion. In 10S myosin, the tail is folded into three segments and the heads bend back and interact with each other and the tail3-7, creating a compact conformation in which ATPase activity, actin activation and filament assembly are all highly inhibited7,8. This switched-off structure appears to function as a key energy-conserving storage molecule in muscle and nonmuscle cells9-12, which can be activated to form functional filaments as needed13-but the mechanism of its inhibition is not understood. Here we have solved the structure of smooth muscle 10S myosin by cryo-electron microscopy with sufficient resolution to enable improved understanding of the function of the head and tail regions of the molecule and of the key intramolecular contacts that cause inhibition. Our results suggest an atomic model for the off state of myosin II, for its activation and unfolding by phosphorylation, and for understanding the clustering of disease-causing mutations near sites of intramolecular interaction.
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- Shixin Yang
- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
- Cryo-EM Shared Resources, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
- Massachusetts Facility for High-Resolution Electron Cryo-microscopy, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
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Miao H, Blankenship JT. The pulse of morphogenesis: actomyosin dynamics and regulation in epithelia. Development 2020; 147:dev186502. [PMID: 32878903 PMCID: PMC7490518 DOI: 10.1242/dev.186502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Actomyosin networks are some of the most crucial force-generating components present in developing tissues. The contractile forces generated by these networks are harnessed during morphogenesis to drive various cell and tissue reshaping events. Recent studies of these processes have advanced rapidly, providing us with insights into how these networks are initiated, positioned and regulated, and how they act via individual contractile pulses and/or the formation of supracellular cables. Here, we review these studies and discuss the mechanisms that underlie the construction and turnover of such networks and structures. Furthermore, we provide an overview of how ratcheted processivity emerges from pulsed events, and how tissue-level mechanics are the coordinated output of many individual cellular behaviors.
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- Hui Miao
- Department of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
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Myosins constitute a superfamily of actin-based molecular motor proteins that mediates a variety of cellular activities including muscle contraction, cell migration, intracellular transport, the formation of membrane projections, cell adhesion, and cell signaling. The 12 myosin classes that are expressed in humans share sequence similarities especially in the N-terminal motor domain; however, their enzymatic activities, regulation, ability to dimerize, binding partners, and cellular functions differ. It is becoming increasingly apparent that defects in myosins are associated with diseases including cardiomyopathies, colitis, glomerulosclerosis, neurological defects, cancer, blindness, and deafness. Here, we review the current state of knowledge regarding myosins and disease.
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Horváth ÁI, Gyimesi M, Várkuti BH, Képiró M, Szegvári G, Lőrincz I, Hegyi G, Kovács M, Málnási-Csizmadia A. Effect of allosteric inhibition of non-muscle myosin 2 on its intracellular diffusion. Sci Rep 2020; 10:13341. [PMID: 32769996 PMCID: PMC7415145 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-69853-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 07/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Subcellular dynamics of non-muscle myosin 2 (NM2) is crucial for a broad-array of cellular functions. To unveil mechanisms of NM2 pharmacological control, we determined how the dynamics of NM2 diffusion is affected by NM2′s allosteric inhibitors, i.e. blebbistatin derivatives, as compared to Y-27632 inhibiting ROCK, NM2′s upstream regulator. We found that NM2 diffusion is markedly faster in central fibers than in peripheral stress fibers. Y-27632 accelerated NM2 diffusion in both peripheral and central fibers, whereas in peripheral fibers blebbistatin derivatives slightly accelerated NM2 diffusion at low, but markedly slowed it at high inhibitor concentrations. In contrast, rapid NM2 diffusion in central fibers was unaffected by direct NM2 inhibition. Using our optopharmacological tool, Molecular Tattoo, sub-effective concentrations of a photo-crosslinkable blebbistatin derivative were increased to effective levels in a small, irradiated area of peripheral fibers. These findings suggest that direct allosteric inhibition affects the diffusion profile of NM2 in a markedly different manner compared to the disruption of the upstream control of NM2. The pharmacological action of myosin inhibitors is channeled through autonomous molecular processes and might be affected by the load acting on the NM2 proteins.
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- Ádám I Horváth
- MTA-ELTE Motor Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, 1117, Budapest, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Motor Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, 1117, Budapest, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Motor Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, 1117, Budapest, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Motor Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, 1117, Budapest, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Motor Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, 1117, Budapest, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Motor Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, 1117, Budapest, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Motor Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, 1117, Budapest, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Motor Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, 1117, Budapest, Hungary.
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- MTA-ELTE Motor Pharmacology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, 1117, Budapest, Hungary.
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Poovathumkadavil P, Jagla K. Genetic Control of Muscle Diversification and Homeostasis: Insights from Drosophila. Cells 2020; 9:cells9061543. [PMID: 32630420 PMCID: PMC7349286 DOI: 10.3390/cells9061543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2020] [Revised: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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In the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, the larval somatic muscles or the adult thoracic flight and leg muscles are the major voluntary locomotory organs. They share several developmental and structural similarities with vertebrate skeletal muscles. To ensure appropriate activity levels for their functions such as hatching in the embryo, crawling in the larva, and jumping and flying in adult flies all muscle components need to be maintained in a functionally stable or homeostatic state despite constant strain. This requires that the muscles develop in a coordinated manner with appropriate connections to other cell types they communicate with. Various signaling pathways as well as extrinsic and intrinsic factors are known to play a role during Drosophila muscle development, diversification, and homeostasis. In this review, we discuss genetic control mechanisms of muscle contraction, development, and homeostasis with particular emphasis on the contractile unit of the muscle, the sarcomere.
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Muscle myosins form folded monomers, dimers, and tetramers during filament polymerization in vitro. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:15666-15672. [PMID: 32571956 PMCID: PMC7354935 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001892117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Muscle myosins polymerize into thick filaments that drive muscle contraction by interaction with actin thin filaments. The details of muscle myosin polymerization into thick filaments are not known. Current hypotheses are that elongated myosin monomers form antiparallel dimers that polymerize into filaments. However, we find polymerization in vitro of skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle myosins involves formation of monomers with folded tails, tail-folded dimers, and tail-folded tetramers. These observations should stimulate studies of the pathway of formation of muscle myosins in vitro and in vivo including the possible roles of the multiple myosin-associated proteins on in vivo polymerization. Muscle contraction depends on the cyclical interaction of myosin and actin filaments. Therefore, it is important to understand the mechanisms of polymerization and depolymerization of muscle myosins. Muscle myosin 2 monomers exist in two states: one with a folded tail that interacts with the heads (10S) and one with an unfolded tail (6S). It has been thought that only unfolded monomers assemble into bipolar and side-polar (smooth muscle myosin) filaments. We now show by electron microscopy that, after 4 s of polymerization in vitro in both the presence (smooth muscle myosin) and absence of ATP, skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle myosins form tail-folded monomers without tail–head interaction, tail-folded antiparallel dimers, tail-folded antiparallel tetramers, unfolded bipolar tetramers, and small filaments. After 4 h, the myosins form thick bipolar and, for smooth muscle myosin, side-polar filaments. Nonphosphorylated smooth muscle myosin polymerizes in the presence of ATP but with a higher critical concentration than in the absence of ATP and forms only bipolar filaments with bare zones. Partial depolymerization in vitro of nonphosphorylated smooth muscle myosin filaments by the addition of MgATP is the reverse of polymerization.
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Asensio-Juárez G, Llorente-González C, Vicente-Manzanares M. Linking the Landscape of MYH9-Related Diseases to the Molecular Mechanisms that Control Non-Muscle Myosin II-A Function in Cells. Cells 2020; 9:E1458. [PMID: 32545517 PMCID: PMC7348894 DOI: 10.3390/cells9061458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The MYH9 gene encodes the heavy chain (MHCII) of non-muscle myosin II A (NMII-A). This is an actin-binding molecular motor essential for development that participates in many crucial cellular processes such as adhesion, cell migration, cytokinesis and polarization, maintenance of cell shape and signal transduction. Several types of mutations in the MYH9 gene cause an array of autosomal dominant disorders, globally known as MYH9-related diseases (MYH9-RD). These include May-Hegglin anomaly (MHA), Epstein syndrome (EPS), Fechtner syndrome (FTS) and Sebastian platelet syndrome (SPS). Although caused by different MYH9 mutations, all patients present macrothrombocytopenia, but may later display other pathologies, including loss of hearing, renal failure and presenile cataracts. The correlation between the molecular and cellular effects of the different mutations and clinical presentation are beginning to be established. In this review, we correlate the defects that MYH9 mutations cause at a molecular and cellular level (for example, deficient filament formation, altered ATPase activity or actin-binding) with the clinical presentation of the syndromes in human patients. We address why these syndromes are tissue restricted, and the existence of possible compensatory mechanisms, including residual activity of mutant NMII-A and/ or the formation of heteropolymers or co-polymers with other NMII isoforms.
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- Molecular Mechanisms Program, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer and Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain; (G.A.-J.); (C.L.-G.)
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Padrón R, Ma W, Duno-Miranda S, Koubassova N, Lee KH, Pinto A, Alamo L, Bolaños P, Tsaturyan A, Irving T, Craig R. The myosin interacting-heads motif present in live tarantula muscle explains tetanic and posttetanic phosphorylation mechanisms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:11865-11874. [PMID: 32444484 PMCID: PMC7275770 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1921312117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Striated muscle contraction involves sliding of actin thin filaments along myosin thick filaments, controlled by calcium through thin filament activation. In relaxed muscle, the two heads of myosin interact with each other on the filament surface to form the interacting-heads motif (IHM). A key question is how both heads are released from the surface to approach actin and produce force. We used time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction to study tarantula muscle before and after tetani. The patterns showed that the IHM is present in live relaxed muscle. Tetanic contraction produced only a very small backbone elongation, implying that mechanosensing-proposed in vertebrate muscle-is not of primary importance in tarantula. Rather, thick filament activation results from increases in myosin phosphorylation that release a fraction of heads to produce force, with the remainder staying in the ordered IHM configuration. After the tetanus, the released heads slowly recover toward the resting, helically ordered state. During this time the released heads remain close to actin and can quickly rebind, enhancing the force produced by posttetanic twitches, structurally explaining posttetanic potentiation. Taken together, these results suggest that, in addition to stretch activation in insects, two other mechanisms for thick filament activation have evolved to disrupt the interactions that establish the relaxed helices of IHMs: one in invertebrates, by either regulatory light-chain phosphorylation (as in arthropods) or Ca2+-binding (in mollusks, lacking phosphorylation), and another in vertebrates, by mechanosensing.
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- Raúl Padrón
- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655;
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- Biophysics Collaborative Access Team, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616
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- Centro de Biología Estructural, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas 1020A, Venezuela
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655
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- Centro de Biología Estructural, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas 1020A, Venezuela
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- Centro de Biología Estructural, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas 1020A, Venezuela
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- Centro de Biofísica y Bioquímica, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas 1020A, Venezuela
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- Institute of Mechanics, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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- Biophysics Collaborative Access Team, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655
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Hong SH, Singh S, Tripathi BN, Mondal S, Lee S, Jung HS, Cho C, Kaur S, Kim JH, Lee S, Bai HW, Bae HJ, Lee SY, Lee SS, Chung BY. Functional properties and the oligomeric state of alkyl hydroperoxide reductase subunit F (AhpF) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PROTOPLASMA 2020; 257:807-817. [PMID: 31909437 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-019-01465-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Alkyl hydroperoxide reductase subunit F (AhpF) is a well-known flavoprotein that transfers electrons from pyridine nucleotides to the peroxidase protein AhpC via redox-active disulfide centers to detoxify hydrogen peroxide. However, study of AhpF has historically been limited to particular eubacteria, and the connection between the functional and structural properties of AhpF remains unknown. The present study demonstrates the dual function of Pseudomonas aeruginosa AhpF (PaAhpF) as a reductase and a molecular chaperone. It was observed that the functions of PaAhpF are closely linked with its structural status. The reductase and foldase chaperone function of PaAhpF predominated for its low-molecular-weight (LMW) form, whereas the holdase chaperone function of PaAhpF was found associated with its high-molecular-weight (HMW) complex. Further, the present study also demonstrates the multiple function of PaAhpF in controlling oxidative and heat stresses in P. aeruginosa resistance to oxidative and heat stress.
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- Sung Hyun Hong
- Advanced Radiation Technology Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 29 Geumgu-gil, Jeongeup, 56212, South Korea
- Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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- Advanced Radiation Technology Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 29 Geumgu-gil, Jeongeup, 56212, South Korea
- Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India
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- Advanced Radiation Technology Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 29 Geumgu-gil, Jeongeup, 56212, South Korea
- Department of Biotechnology, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, 484887, India
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- Advanced Radiation Technology Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 29 Geumgu-gil, Jeongeup, 56212, South Korea
- Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 24341, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 24341, South Korea
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- Advanced Radiation Technology Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 29 Geumgu-gil, Jeongeup, 56212, South Korea
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- Advanced Radiation Technology Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 29 Geumgu-gil, Jeongeup, 56212, South Korea
- Department of Radiation Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34113, South Korea
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- Advanced Radiation Technology Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 29 Geumgu-gil, Jeongeup, 56212, South Korea
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- Advanced Radiation Technology Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 29 Geumgu-gil, Jeongeup, 56212, South Korea
- Department of Radiation Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34113, South Korea
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- Advanced Radiation Technology Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 29 Geumgu-gil, Jeongeup, 56212, South Korea
- Department of Radiation Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34113, South Korea
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- Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, South Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52828, South Korea
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- Advanced Radiation Technology Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 29 Geumgu-gil, Jeongeup, 56212, South Korea.
- Department of Radiation Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34113, South Korea.
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- Advanced Radiation Technology Institute, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 29 Geumgu-gil, Jeongeup, 56212, South Korea.
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Sulbarán G, Biasutto A, Méndez F, Pinto A, Alamo L, Padrón R. 18O labeling on Ser45 but not on Ser35 supports the cooperative phosphorylation mechanism on tarantula thick filament activation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 524:198-204. [PMID: 31983430 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.01.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2019] [Accepted: 01/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Thick filaments from some striated muscles are regulated by phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chains (RLCs). A tarantula thick filament quasi-atomic model achieved by cryo-electron microscopy has advanced our understanding on how this regulation occurs. In native thick filaments, an asymmetric intramolecular interaction between the actin-binding region of one myosin head ("blocked") and the converter region of the other head ("free") switches both heads off, establishing the myosin interacting-heads motif (IHM). This structural finding, together with motility assays, sequence analysis, and mass spectrometry (MS) observations have suggested a cooperative phosphorylation activation (CPA) mechanism for thick filament activation. In the CPA mechanism, some myosin free heads are phosphorylated constitutively in Ser35 by protein kinase C (PKC) and -under Ca2+ control - others (free or blocked) heads temporally on Ser45 by myosin light chain kinase (MLCK), in a way that explains both force development and post-tetanic potentiation in tarantula striated muscle. We tested this model using MS to verify if Ca2+-activation phosphorylates de novo un-phosphorylated Ser35 heads. For this purpose, we standardized an approach based on 18O isotopic ATP labeling to accurately detect by MS-MS the RLC phosphorylation under Ca2+-activation. MS spectra showed de novo18O incorporation only on Ser45 but not on Ser35. As the constitutive Ser35 phosphorylation cannot be dephosphorylated, this result suggests that the number of RLCs on free heads with constitutively phosphorylated Ser35 does remain constant on Ca2+-activation supporting that the myosin has a basal activation and force modulation or potentiation is controlled by MLCK Ser45 phosphorylation.
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- Guidenn Sulbarán
- Centro de Biología Estructural, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Apdo. 20632, Caracas, 1020A, Venezuela.
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- Centro de Biología Estructural, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Apdo. 20632, Caracas, 1020A, Venezuela.
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- Centro de Biología Estructural, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Apdo. 20632, Caracas, 1020A, Venezuela.
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- Centro de Biología Estructural, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Apdo. 20632, Caracas, 1020A, Venezuela.
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- Centro de Biología Estructural, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Apdo. 20632, Caracas, 1020A, Venezuela.
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- Centro de Biología Estructural, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Apdo. 20632, Caracas, 1020A, Venezuela.
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Trivedi DV, Nag S, Spudich A, Ruppel KM, Spudich JA. The Myosin Family of Mechanoenzymes: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Approaches. Annu Rev Biochem 2020; 89:667-693. [PMID: 32169021 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-011520-105234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Myosins are among the most fascinating enzymes in biology. As extremely allosteric chemomechanical molecular machines, myosins are involved in myriad pivotal cellular functions and are frequently sites of mutations leading to disease phenotypes. Human β-cardiac myosin has proved to be an excellent target for small-molecule therapeutics for heart muscle diseases, and, as we describe here, other myosin family members are likely to be potentially unique targets for treating other diseases as well. The first part of this review focuses on how myosins convert the chemical energy of ATP hydrolysis into mechanical movement, followed by a description of existing therapeutic approaches to target human β-cardiac myosin. The next section focuses on the possibility of targeting nonmuscle members of the human myosin family for several diseases. We end the review by describing the roles of myosin in parasites and the therapeutic potential of targeting them to block parasitic invasion of their hosts.
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- Darshan V Trivedi
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA; , , .,Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- MyoKardia Inc., Brisbane, California 94005, USA;
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560-097, India;
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA; , , .,Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.,Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA; , , .,Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Woodhead JL, Craig R. The mesa trail and the interacting heads motif of myosin II. Arch Biochem Biophys 2020; 680:108228. [PMID: 31843643 PMCID: PMC6939892 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2019.108228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2019] [Revised: 12/09/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Myosin II molecules in the thick filaments of striated muscle form a structure in which the heads interact with each other and fold back onto the tail. This structure, the "interacting heads motif" (IHM), provides a mechanistic basis for the auto-inhibition of myosin in relaxed thick filaments. Similar IHM interactions occur in single myosin molecules of smooth and nonmuscle cells in the switched-off state. In addition to the interaction between the two heads, which inhibits their activity, the IHM also contains an interaction between the motor domain of one head and the initial part (subfragment 2, S2) of the tail. This is thought to be a crucial anchoring interaction that holds the IHM in place on the thick filament. S2 appears to cross the head at a specific location within a broader region of the motor domain known as the myosin mesa. Here, we show that the positive and negative charge distribution in this part of the mesa is complementary to the charge distribution on S2. We have designated this the "mesa trail" owing to its linear path across the mesa. We studied the structural sequence alignment, the location of charged residues on the surface of myosin head atomic models, and the distribution of surface charge potential along the mesa trail in different types of myosin II and in different species. The charge distribution in both the mesa trail and the adjacent S2 is relatively conserved. This suggests a common basis for IHM formation across different myosin IIs, dependent on attraction between complementary charged patches on S2 and the myosin head. Conservation from mammals to insects suggests that the mesa trail/S2 interaction plays a key role in the inhibitory function of the IHM.
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- John L Woodhead
- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA.
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The heart is an extraordinarily versatile pump, finely tuned to respond to a multitude of demands. Given the heart pumps without rest for decades its efficiency is particularly relevant. Although many proteins in the heart are essential for viability, the non-essential components can attract numerous mutations which can cause disease, possibly through alterations in pumping efficiency. Of these, myosin binding protein C is strongly over-represented with ~ 40% of all known mutations in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Therefore, a complete understanding of its molecular function in the cardiac sarcomere is warranted. In this review, we revisit contemporary and classical literature to clarify both the current standing of this fast-moving field and frame future unresolved questions. To date, much effort has been directed at understanding MyBP-C function on either thick or thin filaments. Here we aim to focus questions on how MyBP-C functions at a molecular level in the context of both the thick and thin filaments together. A concept that emerges is MyBP-C acts to govern interactions on two levels; controlling myosin access to the thin filament by sequestration on the thick filament, and controlling the activation state and access of myosin to its binding sites on the thin filament. Such affects are achieved through directed interactions mediated by phosphorylation (of MyBP-C and other sarcomeric components) and calcium.
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Pannerselvam B, Alagumuthu TS, Cinnaiyan SK, Al-Dhabi NA, Ponmurugan K, Saravanan M, Kanth SV, Thangavelu KP. In vitro Cytotoxicity and Antibacterial Activity of Optimized Silver Nanoparticles Against Wound Infectious Bacteria and Their Morphological Studies. J CLUST SCI 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10876-020-01759-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Calcium in Cell-Extracellular Matrix Interactions. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2020; 1131:1079-1102. [PMID: 31646546 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12457-1_43] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In multicellular organisms, the cells are surrounded by persistent, dynamic extracellular matrix (ECM), the largest calcium reservoir in animals. ECM regulates several aspects of cell behavior including cell migration and adhesion, survival, gene expression and differentiation, thus playing a significant role in health and disease. Calcium is reported to be important in the assembly of ECM, where it binds to many ECM proteins. While serving as a calcium reservoir, ECM macromolecules can directly interact with cell surface receptors resulting in calcium transport across the membrane. This chapter mainly focusses on the role of cell-ECM interactions in cellular calcium regulation and how calcium itself mediates these interactions.
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Yang S, Lee KH, Woodhead JL, Sato O, Ikebe M, Craig R. The central role of the tail in switching off 10S myosin II activity. J Gen Physiol 2019; 151:1081-1093. [PMID: 31387899 PMCID: PMC6719407 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201912431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2019] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Myosin II is a motor protein with two heads and an extended tail that plays an essential role in cell motility. Its active form is a polymer (myosin filament) that pulls on actin to generate motion. Its inactive form is a monomer with a compact structure (10S sedimentation coefficient), in which the tail is folded and the two heads interact with each other, inhibiting activity. This conformation is thought to function in cells as an energy-conserving form of the molecule suitable for storage as well as transport to sites of filament assembly. The mechanism of inhibition of the compact molecule is not fully understood. We have performed a 3-D reconstruction of negatively stained 10S myosin from smooth muscle in the inhibited state using single-particle analysis. The reconstruction reveals multiple interactions between the tail and the two heads that appear to trap ATP hydrolysis products, block actin binding, hinder head phosphorylation, and prevent filament formation. Blocking these essential features of myosin function could explain the high degree of inhibition of the folded form of myosin thought to underlie its energy-conserving function in cells. The reconstruction also suggests a mechanism for unfolding when myosin is activated by phosphorylation.
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- Shixin Yang
- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX
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- Division of Cell Biology and Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
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Colgren J, Nichols SA. The significance of sponges for comparative studies of developmental evolution. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 2019; 9:e359. [PMID: 31352684 DOI: 10.1002/wdev.359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Revised: 05/27/2019] [Accepted: 06/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Sponges, ctenophores, placozoans, and cnidarians have key evolutionary significance in that they bracket the time interval during which organized animal tissues were first assembled, fundamental cell types originated (e.g., neurons and myocytes), and developmental patterning mechanisms evolved. Sponges in particular have often been viewed as living surrogates for early animal ancestors, largely due to similarities between their feeding cells (choanocytes) with choanoflagellates, the unicellular/colony-forming sister group to animals. Here, we evaluate these claims and highlight aspects of sponge biology with comparative value for understanding developmental evolution, irrespective of the purported antiquity of their body plan. Specifically, we argue that sponges strike a different balance between patterning and plasticity than other animals, and that environmental inputs may have prominence over genetically regulated developmental mechanisms. We then present a case study to illustrate how contractile epithelia in sponges can help unravel the complex ancestry of an ancient animal cell type, myocytes, which sponges lack. Sponges represent hundreds of millions of years of largely unexamined evolutionary experimentation within animals. Their phylogenetic placement lends them key significance for learning about the past, and their divergent biology challenges current views about the scope of animal cell and developmental biology. This article is characterized under: Comparative Development and Evolution > Evolutionary Novelties Comparative Development and Evolution > Body Plan Evolution.
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- Jeffrey Colgren
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
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