Effect of lysine methylation and other ATPase modulators on the active site of myosin subfragment 1.

AUTOR(ES)

Bivin, D B

RESUMO

Many and diverse modifications of the myosin subfragment 1 (S-1) increase (modulate) its ATPase activity, including interaction of this particle with actin; a recent addition to these modifications is the extensive lysine modification of S-1 that seems prerequisite to crystallizing it for structure analysis. In this study we first established kinetically the ATPase modulations induced by various treatments of the myosin S-1 enzyme, and we also measured two properties of the S-1 active site--the affinity with which the site binds (a fluorescent analog of) the enzymatic nucleotide product and the access that a fluorescence quencher has to the bound ADP product--in an effort to get at the mechanism of modulation. Modulations achieved by substituting Ca2+ for the normal Mg2+ cocatalyst or by substituting Cl- for the normal carboxylate anion seem due to the product being held more loosely by the modulated enzyme. In other illustrative modulations (lysine methylation, or alkylation of Cys-707, or transition from neutral pH to pH 9.2) nucleotide product affinity and access to quencher do change, but not in a pattern explained simply by a lifting of product inhibition. Lysine methylation results in weaker binding of nucleotide product.

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