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Query: EC:3.6.3.1 (Mg2+-ATPase)
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A contractile protein closely resembling natural actomyosin (myosin B) of rabbit skeletal muscle was extracted from plasmodia of the slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, by protecting the SH-groups with beta-mercaptoethanol or dithiothreitol. Superprecipitation of the protein induced by Mg2+-ATP at low ionic strength was observed only in the presence of very low concentrations of free Ca2+ ions, and the Mg2+-ATPase [EC 3.6.1.3] reaction was activated 2- to 6-fold by 1 muM of free Ca2+ ions. Crude myosin and actin fractions were separated by centrifuging plasmodium myosin B in the presence of Mg2+-PPi at high ionic strength. The crude myosin showed both EDTA- and Ca2+-activated ATPase activities. The Mg2+-ATPase activity of crude myosin from plasmodia was markedly activated by the addition of pure F-actin from rabbit skeletal muscle. Addition of the F-action-regulatory protein complex prepared from rabbit skeletal muscle as well as the actin fraction of plasmodium caused the same degree of activation as the addition of pure F-actin only in the presence of very low concentrations of Ca2+ ion
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PMID:Ca2+-sensitivity of actomyosin ATPase purified from Physarum polycephalum. 13 90

The ATPase activity of myofibrils and myosin from hindlimb muscle was investigated in animals 4 wk after the induction of diabetes by an intravenous injection of streptozotocin (65 mg/kg). Ca2+-stimulated ATPase in myofibrils was increased in diabetic muscle at various times of incubation (1-7 min) as well as at different concentrations of free Ca2+ (10(-7)-10(-5) M Ca2+). Such an increase in Ca2+-stimulated ATPase was evident as early as 1 wk after streptozotocin injection, but Mg2+-ATPase activity remained unaltered. Treatment of diabetic animals with insulin Ca2+-ATPase and actin-activated ATPase activities of pure myosin were similarly increased in diabetic muscle. Myosin ATPase was also activated by K+- or NH4+-EDTA; these responses were more in diabetic muscle. However, sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis failed to reveal differences in the patterns of contractile proteins, and pyrophosphate gels did not show significant changes in myosin isozyme patterns between diabetics and controls. The results of this study demonstrate an activation of contractile protein ATPase of skeletal muscle in diabetes and seem to indicate that such an alteration may be responsible for enhanced contractile function of skeletal muscle in this disease.
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PMID:Altered contractile proteins in skeletal muscle of diabetic rats. 295 57

Hearts of genetically myopathic male hamsters (BIO 53 : 58) were studied at 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 to 5 months and 7 months of age. The time course of alterations in the cardiac myofibrillar ATPase activity, the relationship of myofibrillar ATPase activity to free [Ca2+], myosin ATPase activity and the distribution of heavy chain myosin isoenzymes were evaluated. Mg2+-Ca2+ ATPase activity of cardiac myofibrils in myopathics was increased in 4 month and 7 month-old hamsters. Elevated Mg2+ ATPase activity was found as early as in 2-month-old hamster. However, there was no loss in the regulation of the myopathic myofibrillar assembly as measured by the PCa response (10(-7) M to 10(-4) M Ca2+). Scans of SDS electrophoresis slab gels of cardiac myofibrillar proteins from control (C) and myopathic animals (M) did not show any differences at any age group (1, 4 and 7 months). There was a significant decrease in myosin Ca2+ ATPase activity and actin activated Mg2+-ATPase activity at 4 to 5 months and 7 months of age in the myopathic hearts. At all ages in normal and myopathic animals cardiac myosin consisted of three isoenzymes, V1, V2 and V3. At all ages in controls and at 1 to 3 months in myopathics, V1 predominated and the isoenzyme distribution was V1 greater than V2 greater than V3. However, in myopathics at 4 to 5 months, the distribution was V1 = V3 greater than V2 and at 7 months was V3 greater than V2 greater than V1. Our experiments suggest alterations in different components of the contractile protein system that occur at different stages of myopathy.
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PMID:Multiple cardiac contractile protein abnormalities in myopathic Syrian hamsters (BIO 53 : 58). 315 46

In the present study, a muscle contractile protein complex, actomyosin, has been successfully encapsulated into gellan-chitosan polyion complex (PIC) capsules. The recovery of the myosin-ATPase activity is approximately 50% and the Mg2+-ATPase activity is stimulated by the presence of F-actin, which implies the formation of the actomyosin complex inside the capsule. Furthermore, encapsulation could protect the myosin, F-actin, and actomyosin inside from hydrolysis by proteases. Two small proteins, myoglobin and cytochrome c, have been used in the release tests. The release of myoglobin is not affected by the ionic strength of the external solution, while the release of cytochrome c increases with increasing ionic strength. The maximal releases are found in the external pH solution close to the isoelectric points of each protein. The Mg2+-ATP complex itself reduces the release percentages of the small proteins from the PIC capsule. The release amounts further decrease when coexisting with Mg2+-ATP and the encapsulated actomyosin, which indicates the release regulation by actomyosin. The present study suggests that the ATPase-coupled sliding motion of the myosin-F-actin filaments modifies the pore size of the polymer networks in the PIC capsule membranes.
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PMID:ATPase-coupled release control from polyion complex capsules encapsulating muscle proteins. 1742 32