Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: EC:3.6.1.3 (ATPase)
65,361 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

Phosphorylation of a single threonine (myosin IA) or serine (myosins IB and IC) in the heavy chains of the Acanthamoeba myosin I isozymes is required for expression of their actin-activated Mg2(+)-ATPase activities. We now report that the synthetic peptide Gly-Arg-Gly-Arg-Ser-Ser-Val-Tyr-Ser, which corresponds to the phosphorylated region of Acanthamoeba myosin IC, is a good substrate for myosin I heavy chain kinase: Km = 54 microM, and Vmax = 15 mumols/min.mg. The same serine is phosphorylated as in the native substrate (residue 6 in the above sequence), and kinase activity with the synthetic peptide as substrate is also stimulated by phosphatidylserine-enhanced autophosphorylation of the kinase. These results indicate that all of the essential sequence determinants of kinase specificity are contained within this 9-residue peptide. With the peptide as substrate, we found that another acidic phospholipid, phosphatidylinositol, also enhances autophosphorylation of the kinase whereas the neutral phospholipids phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine do not. By comparing the Km and Vmax values for a series of synthetic peptide substrates, we established that 1 basic amino acid is essential on the NH2-terminal side of the phosphorylation site, and two are preferable, and that a tyrosine is essential 2 residues away on the COOH-terminal side. There is a slight preference for arginines over lysines. All of these local sequence specificity determinants are present in the three native substrates, Acanthamoeba myosins IA, IB, and IC, and in two Dictyostelium myosin I isozymes that are putative substrates for the kinase. Similar sequences do not occur in the myosins I from intestinal brush border, which is not a substrate for the Acanthamoeba kinase.
...
PMID:Substrate specificity of Acanthamoeba myosin I heavy chain kinase as determined with synthetic peptides. 216 81

The Mg2+-ATPase activity of Acanthamoeba myosin IA is activated by F-actin only when the myosin heavy chain is phosphorylated at a single residue. In order to gain insight into the conformational changes that may be responsible for the effects of F-actin and phosphorylation on myosin I ATPase, we have studied their effects on the proteolysis of the myosin IA heavy chain by trypsin. Trypsin initially cleaves the unphosphorylated, 140-kDa heavy chain of Acanthamoeba myosin IA at sites 38 and 112 kDa from its NH2 terminus and secondarily at sites 64 and 91 kDa from the NH2 terminus. F-actin has no effect on tryptic cleavage at the 91- and 112-kDa sites, but does protect the 38-kDa site and the 64-kDa site. Phosphorylation (which occurs very near the 38-kDa site) has no detectable effect on the tryptic cleavage pattern in the absence of F-actin or on F-actin protection of the 64-kDa site, but significantly enhances F-actin protection of the 38-kDa site. Protection of the 64-kDa site is probably due to direct steric blocking because F-actin binds to this region of the heavy chain. The protection of the 38-kDa site by F-actin may be the result of conformational changes in this region of the heavy chain induced by F-actin binding near the 64-kDa site and by phosphorylation. The conformational changes in the heavy chain of myosin IA that are detected by alterations in its susceptibility to proteolysis are likely to be related to the conformational changes that are involved in the phosphorylation-regulated actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activities of Acanthamoeba myosins IA and IB.
...
PMID:The effect of actin and phosphorylation on the tryptic cleavage pattern of Acanthamoeba myosin IA. 252 93

A third isoform of myosin I has been isolated from Acanthamoeba and designated myosin IC. Peptide maps and immunoassays indicate that myosin IC is not a modified form of myosin IA, IB, or II. However, myosin IC has most of the distinctive properties of a myosin I. It is a globular protein of native Mr approximately 162,000, apparently composed of a single 130-kDa heavy chain and a pair of 14-kDa light chains. It is soluble in MgATP at low ionic strength, conditions favoring filament assembly by myosin II. Myosin IC has high Ca2+- and (K+,EDTA)-ATPase activities. Its low Mg2+-ATPase activity is stimulated to a maximum rate of 20 s-1 by the addition of F-actin if its heavy chain has been phosphorylated by myosin I heavy chain kinase. The dependence of the Mg2+-ATPase activity of myosin IC on F-actin concentration is triphasic; and, at fixed concentrations of F-action, this activity increases cooperatively as the concentration of myosin IC is increased. These unusual kinetics were first demonstrated for myosins IA and IB and shown to be due to the presence of two actin-binding sites on each heavy chain which enable those myosins I to cross-link actin filaments. Myosin IC is also capable of cross-linking F-actin, which, together with the kinetics of its actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity, suggests that it, like myosins IA and IB, possesses two independent actin-binding domains.
...
PMID:Purification and characterization of a third isoform of myosin I from Acanthamoeba castellanii. 253 Feb 29

Previous studies had led to the conclusion that the globular, single-headed myosins IA and IB from Acanthamoeba castellanii contain two actin-binding sites: one associated with the catalytic site and whose binding to F-actin activates the Mg2+-ATPase activity and a second site whose binding results in the cross-linking of actin filaments and makes the actin-activated ATPase activity positively cooperative with respect to myosin I concentration. We have now prepared a 100,000-Da NH2-terminal peptide and a 30,000-Da COOH-terminal peptide by alpha-chymotryptic digestion of the myosin IA heavy chain. The intact 17,000-Da light chain remained associated with the 100,000-Da fragment, which also contained the serine residue that must be phosphorylated for expression of actin-activated ATPase activity by native myosin IA. The 30,000-Da peptide, which contained 34% glycine and 21% proline, bound to F-actin with a KD less than 0.5 microM in the presence or absence of ATP but had no ATPase activity. The 100,000-Da peptide bound to F-actin with KD = 0.4-0.8 microM in the presence of 2 mM MgATP and KD less than 0.01 microM in the absence of MgATP. In contrast to native myosin IA, neither peptide cross-linked actin filaments. The phosphorylated 100,000-Da peptide had actin-activated ATPase activity with the same Vmax as that of native phosphorylated myosin IA but this activity displayed simple, noncooperative hyperbolic dependence on the actin concentration in contrast to the complex cooperative kinetics observed with native myosin IA. These results provide direct experimental evidence for the presence of two actin-binding sites on myosin IA, as was suggested by enzyme kinetic and filament cross-linking data, and also for the previously proposed mechanism by which monomeric myosins I could support contractile activities.
...
PMID:ATPase activities and actin-binding properties of subfragments of Acanthamoeba myosin IA. 294 92

Acanthamoeba myosin IA is a globular protein composed of a 140-kDa heavy chain and a 17-kDa light chain. It expresses high actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity when one serine on the heavy chain is phosphorylated. We previously showed that chymotrypsin cleaves the heavy chain into a COOH-terminal 27-kDa peptide that can bind to F-actin but has no ATPase activity and a complex containing the NH2-terminal 112-kDa peptide and the light chain. The complex also binds F-actin and has full actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity when the regulatory site is phosphorylated. We have now localized the ATP binding site to within 27 kDa of the NH2 terminus and the regulatory phosphorylatable serine to a 20-kDa region between 38 and 58 kDa of the NH2 terminus. Under controlled conditions, trypsin cleaves the heavy chain at two sites, 38 and 112 kDa from the NH2 terminus, producing a COOH-terminal 27-kDa peptide similar to that produced by chymotrypsin and a complex consisting of an NH2-terminal kDa peptide, a central 74-kDa peptide, and the light chain. This complex is similar to the chymotryptic complex but for the cleavage which separates the 38- and 74-kDa peptides. The tryptic complex has full (K+, EDTA)-ATPase activity (the catalytic site is functional) and normal ATP-sensitive actin-binding properties. However, the actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity and the F-actin-binding characteristics of the tryptic complex are no longer sensitive to phosphorylation of the regulatory serine. Therefore, cleavage between the phosphorylation site and the ATP-binding site inhibits the effects of phosphorylation on actin binding and actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity without abolishing the interactions between the ATP- and actin-binding sites.
...
PMID:Limited tryptic digestion of Acanthamoeba myosin IA abolishes regulation of actin-activated ATPase activity by heavy chain phosphorylation. 295 54

A low-molecular-weight myosin has been purified 1500-fold from extracts of Dictyostelium discoideum, based on the increase in K+,EDTA-ATPase specific activity. The purified enzyme resembles the single-headed, low-molecular-weight myosins IA and IB from Acanthamoeba castellanii, and differs from the conventional two-headed, high-molecular-weight myosin previously isolated from Dictyostelium, in several ways. It has higher K+,EDTA-ATPase activity than Ca2+-ATPase activity; it has a native molecular mass of about 150,000 and a single heavy chain of about 117,000; the 117,000-dalton heavy chain is phosphorylated by Acanthamoeba myosin I heavy chain kinase; phosphorylation of its heavy chain enhances its actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity; and the 117,000-dalton heavy chain reacts with antibodies raised against the heavy chain of Acanthamoeba myosin IA. None of these properties is shared by the low-molecular-weight active fragment that can be produced by chymotryptic digestion of conventional Dictyostelium myosin. We conclude that Dictyostelium contains an enzyme of the myosin I type previously isolated only from Acanthamoeba.
...
PMID:Purification from Dictyostelium discoideum of a low-molecular-weight myosin that resembles myosin I from Acanthamoeba castellanii. 315 80

Acanthamoeba myosins IA and IB were found to have molecular weights of 159,000 and 150,000 and Stokes radii of 6.2 and 5.9 nm, respectively. Both enzymes have frictional ratios of 1.7. Myosin IA consists of 22% alpha-helix, 32% beta-structure, and 46% unordered structure, while myosin IB is 16% alpha-helix, 46% beta-structure, and 38% unordered. Both myosins remain monomolecular under conditions in which other myosins form filaments. Beads coated with myosin IA or IB move unidirectionally on actin cables of Nitella. Movement requires ATP and phosphorylation of the myosin I heavy chain which is also required for actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity. Movement is inhibited by myosin I antiserum that inhibits actin-activated ATPase activity. These studies establish that these nonfilamentous, monomolecular myosins with single heavy chains of 130,000 and 125,000 daltons (IA and IB, respectively) can support actin-dependent movement analogous to that supported by filamentous myosins.
...
PMID:Monomeric Acanthamoeba myosins I support movement in vitro. 316 Jun 92

Previous work (Maruta, H., Gadasi, H., Collins, J. H., and Korn, E. D. (1978) J. Biol. Chem. 253, 6292-6300) had shown that phosphorylation of the heavy chain of Acanthamoeba myosin IA is required for actin activation of its Mg2+-ATPase activity and that, like the phosphorylation site, the catalytic site and the actin binding site are also on the heavy chain. We now show that limited digestion of phosphorylated myosin IA by subtilisin allows separation of the catalytically active peptide fragment from the phosphorylated peptide without any significant loss of actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity. A proteolytic fragment with full actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity has also been isolated from subtilisin digests of nonphosphorylated myosin IA, which, before proteolysis, did not have actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity. The simplest interpretation of these data is that, in its nonphosphorylated state, the phosphorylation site of Acanthamoeba myosin IA inhibits the catalytic site and that this inhibition can be reversed either by phosphorylation of the site or by proteolytically separating it from the catalytic site. Alternatively, phosphorylation and proteolysis may, by unrelated mechanisms, induce similar conformational changes in the myosin heavy chain that lead to activation of its actomyosin ATPase activity.
...
PMID:Proteolytic separation of the actin-activatable ATPase site from the phosphorylation site on the heavy chain of Acanthamoeba myosin IA. 610 57

Myosins IA and IB from Acanthamoeba castellanii are single-headed molecules which, upon phosphorylation of their heavy chains by a specific kinase, express actin-activated Mg2+-ATPase activity. These myosins show no tendency to self-associate under assay conditions, a property which allows unambiguous kinetic and actin-binding data to be obtained. Both myosin isoenzymes exhibit a complex dependence of actomyosin ATPase activity on F-actin concentration. A conventional hyperbolic dependence is observed at low concentrations of F-actin but at higher F-actin concentrations, inhibition and then apparent reactivation are seen to occur. From those early portions of the velocity profiles which do not deviate from simple Michaelis-Menten type kinetics, values for the Vmax (10 s-1 for myosin IA, 18 s-1 for myosin IB) and KATPase (0.25 microM for myosin IA, 0.30 microM for myosin IB) were calculated. Similar Vmax values were obtained from the reactivation segment of the kinetic data. The KATPase values are very similar to the directly measured dissociation constants (KD) of 0.10 microM for myosin IA and 0.25 microM for myosin IB. Phosphorylation of the myosin heavy chain, which elicits a greater than 20-fold activation of the actomyosin ATPase, has no effect on the binding of myosin to F-actin. This finding supports the conclusion that phosphorylation of myosins IA and IB accelerates one or more catalytic steps of the actomyosin I ATPase reaction at both low and high concentrations of F-actin.
...
PMID:The interaction of F-actin with phosphorylated and unphosphorylated myosins IA and IB from Acanthamoeba castellanii. 613 3

The heavy chains of Acanthamoeba myosins. IA, IB and II, turkey gizzard myosin, and rabbit skeletal muscle myosin subfragment-1 were specifically labeled by radioactive ATP, ADP, and UTP, each of which is a substrate or product of myosin ATPase activity, when irradiated with UV light at 0 degrees C. With UTP, as much as 0.45 mol/mol of Acanthamoeba myosin IA heavy chain and 1 mol/mol of turkey gizzard myosin heavy chain was incorporated. Evidence that the ligands were associated with the catalytic site included the observations that reaction occurred only with nucleotides that are substrates or products of the ATPase activity; that the reaction was blocked by pyrophosphate which is an inhibitor of the ATPase activity; that ATP was bound as ADP; and that label was probably restricted to a single peptide following limited subtilisin proteolysis of labeled Acanthamoeba myosin IA heavy chain and extensive cleavage with CNBr and trypsin of labeled turkey gizzard myosin heavy chain.
...
PMID:Direct photoaffinity labeling by nucleotides of the apparent catalytic site on the heavy chains of smooth muscle and Acanthamoeba myosins. 745 49


1 2 Next >>