High microfilament concentration results in barbed-end ADP caps.
AUTOR(ES)
Dufort, P A
RESUMO
Current theory and experiments describing actin polymerization suggest that site-specific cleavage of bound nucleotide following F-actin filament formation causes the barbed ends of microfilaments to be capped first with ATP subunits, then with ADP bound to inorganic phosphate (ADP.Pi) at steady-state. The barbed ends of depolymerizing filaments consist of ADP subunits. The decrease in stability of the barbed-end cap accompanying the transition from ADP.Pi to ADP allows nucleotide hydrolysis and subsequent loss of Pi to regulate F-actin filament dynamics. We describe a novel computational model of nucleotide capping that simulates both the spatial and temporal properties of actin polymerization. This model has been used to test the effects of high filament concentration on the behavior of the ATP hydrolysis cycle observed during polymerization. The model predicts that under conditions of high microfilament concentration an ADP cap can appear during steady-state at the barbed ends of filaments. We show that the presence of the cap can be accounted for by a kinetic model and predict the relationship between the nucleotide concentration ratio [ATP]/[ADP], the F-actin filament concentration, and the steady-state distribution of barbed-end ADP cap lengths. The possible consequences of this previously unreported phenomenon as a regulator of cytoskeletal behavior are discussed.
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