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Query: EC:3.6.4.1 (myosin ATPase)
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Heart myosin ATPase (measured with 10 mM CaCl2, and 0.60 M KCl) was found to be higher in rats (423 nmoles of Pi/min/mg) than in guinea-pig (268 nmoles of Pi/min/mg), dogs (139 nmoles of Pi/min/mg) or rabbits (94 nmoles of Pi/min/mg). Rat heart myosin ATPase was found to be higher than that from a pure red skeletal muscle myosin (soleus from guinea-pig: 286 nmoles/min/mg) and only one third lower than that from fast skeletal muscle myosin from rabbits. The heart myosin ATPase from rat, guinea-pig, and rabbit correlates with the maximum velocity of shortening at zero load of the myocardial muscle, as determined by other authors. These four cardiac muscle myosins have the same two light subunits (M.W.: 27000 and 18000) in SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; one of them (M.W.: 18000) exists in guinea-pig and dog as two different molecules having a different charge, as shown in urea electrophoresis, but in the rat, this subunit is also unique in urea gel electrophoresis. Rat heart, apparently, does not possess the phosphorylated light subunit (M.W.: 18,000) described by others in rabbit heart myosin. Attempts have been made to obtain a highly purified myosin, but this procedure does not suppress the striking difference which exists between rat and dog heart myosin ATPase.
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PMID:A comparative study of heart myosin ATPase and light subunits from different species. 12 4

The ATPase activity of myosin and contraction time in extensor digitorum longus muscle, soleus muscle and cardiac muscle was compared in mammals differing in size. It was shown that the myosin ATPase activity of homologous muscles decreases and contraction time increases with increasing size of animals. The rate of tryptic digestion of myosin, the electrophoretic pattern of light chains of myosin and the effect of p-chloromercuribenzoate on ATPase activity of myosin were also studied. All these three myosin properties are very characteristic when the myosin from a fast muscle is compared with the myosin from a slow muscle of the same animal, but no relationship between these three myosin properties and ATPase activity of myosin was found, when homologous muscles of various mammals were compared.
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PMID:Myosin from fast and slow skeletal and cardiac muscles of mammals of different size. 12 84

Cardiac muscle myosin ATPase activity is depressed and contractile function impaired when the heart is subjected to a chronic pressure overload. Administering digitalis in the presence of chronic pressure overload significantly attenuates the decline in mechanical function. The current study sought to determine if the cardiac muscle myosin ATPase activity of cats treated with digitalis in the presence of pressure overload remains normal in parallel with the mechanical function. Four groups of cats were studied: normal controls (C), animals with pressure-overload hypertrophy with or without failure (HF), normal cats that received treatment with digitalis (D), and animals that received digitalis prior to and together with pressure overload (DHF). Compared to C, the maximum myosin ATPase activity of HF was significantly (P less than 0.05) depressed, but the maximum ATPase activity of D and DHF was not altered significantly (P greater than 0.05) from C. In parallel with the enzyme maximum activity, the papillary muscle isometric rate of force development was significantly (P less than 0.005) depressed in HF compared to C; D and DHF were not significantly (P greater than 0.05) different from C. It is concluded that the depression of myosin ATPase observed in HF is not present when digitalis is administered concomitant with the pressure overload.
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PMID:Normal cardiac myosin ATPase and mechanics in pressure overload with digitalis treatment. 14 32

Myosin light chain kinases have been isolated from rat thigh and rabbit skeletal muscle and cultured rat myoblasts. From these preparations, two types of kinases can be distinguished: calcium-dependent and calcium-independent. Both types of kinases can phosphorylate isolated P-light chains of myosin from several sources (skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and platelet). Data are shown which support the phosphorylation of the same site on the non-muscle P-light chains by both types of kinases. The rates of these reactins are, however, different for the two types of kinases. Kinetic analysis of the myoblast kinase shows differing affinities for various P-light chains (non-muscle greater than cardiac greater than skeletal). In the proliferative rat myoblast, phosphorylation of myosin is a prerequisite for actin activation of the myosin ATPase activity.
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PMID:A comparative study of the myosin light chain kinases from myoblast and muscle sources. Studies on the kinases from proliferative rat myoblasts in culture, rat thigh muscle, and rabbit skeletal muscle. 15 62

Papillary muscle mechanics and ventricular myosin calcium-activated ATPase activity were measured in the same heart as a function of temperature (8--28 degrees) in rabbits and marmots, in order to examine further the hypothesis that the velocity of cardiac muscle shortening at zero load (Vmax) is correlated with myosin ATPase activity. There was a similar Q10 for Vmax in each muscle type, as measured with isotonic afterloaded quick-releases at 30--33% time-to-peak tension; the calcium activated ATPase of myosin in the two muscle types also was similar. The least squares linear regression of rabbit Vmax on calcium-activated myosin ATPase activity was the same as in the marmot, so all the data were pooled to yield a linear regression (Y = 0.47 +/- 3.82X) with a high correlation between the two variables [r = 0.95, P less than 0.01 (ANOV)]. Furthermore, the correlation proved to be predictive of cardiac Vmax and myosin ATPase activity levels in other experiments where these two measurements decreased below normal as a result of hypertrophic growth. Consequently, the quantitative relationship between Vmax and myosin ATPase defined here may prove to be predictive of the ability of cardiac muscle to release bond energy.
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PMID:The relationship of mechanical Vmax to myosin ATPase activity in rabbit and marmot ventricular muscle. 15 23

Myosins purified from cardiac (porcine heart) and smooth (chicken gizzard) muscles were modified with 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulfonate (TNBS) and the effects on the kinetic properties of myosin ATPase [EC 3.6.1.3] were studied. The following results were obtained. 1. About 0.5 mol of TNBS per mol of myosin head was incorporated rapidly, irrespective of the presence of PP1 (2mM), into both types of myosin studied. 2. The size of the initial burst of P1 liberation for both myosins was found to be 0.5--0.6 mol/mol head. 3. The rapid incorporation of TNBS into cardiac muscle myosin was accompanied by a rapid decrease in the size of the initial P1 burst, and it was completely lost after modification for 20 min. However, smooth muscle myosin retained its P1 burst. 4. The EDTA (K+)-ATPase activity of both myosins modified in the presence or absence of PP1 decreased sharply with incorporation of TNBS. 5. Superprecipitation and ATPase activity of reconstituted actomyosin from cardiac myosin and skeletal F-actin decreased only after 10 min of modification with TNBS in the absence of PP1. 6. The spectra of TNP bound to myosins from cardiac and smooth muscles were unchanged by the addition of PP1. The above findings are compared with those previously obtained for skeletal muscle myosin [Miyanishi, T., Inoue, A., & Tonomura, Y. (1979) J. Biochem. 85, 747--753], and the structural and functional differences among the myosins derived from skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscles are discussed.
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PMID:Modification of cardiac and smooth muscle myosins with 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulfonate. Evidence for differences in structure around the active sites of cardiac, smooth, and skeletal muscle myosin ATPase. 15 5

Endurance exercise training has been found to enhance the functional capacity of the myocardium in several animal models. The sub-cellular phenomena accompanying the augmented function are yet to be explained. The present study sought to determine if the myosin ATPase activity of cardiac muscle increased as a result of endurance conditioning. Five beagles trained by running on a motor driven treadmill (T) and five control (NT) animals were studied. Follwoing 10 weeks of training the T group had a significantly (P less than .05) lower heart rate than the NT while performing the same submaximal exercise and the gastrocnemius cytochrome oxidase activity was significantly greater (P less than .005) in the T than in the NT. These two measurements established that the exercised animals were physically trained. Myosin was isolated from the left ventricular myocardium and activated in a medium containing K-EDTA. No significant (P less than .05) difference in maximum myosin ATPase activity was observed between the NT and T groups in cardiac muscle. It was concluded that cardiac muscle myosin ATPase activity was not affected by 10 weeks of endurance conditioning induced by treadmill running in dogs.
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PMID:Effect of endurance training on myocardial myosin adenosine triphosphatase activity of the dog. 16 Apr 87

This paper summarizes the data concerning the role of the creatine phosphokinase system in muscle cells with main attention to the cardiac muscle. Creatine phosphokinase isoenzymes play a key role in the intracellular energy transport from mitochondria to myofibrils and other sites of energy utilization. Due to the existence of the creatine phosphate pathway for energy transport, intracellular creatine phosphate concentration is apparently an important regulatory factor for muscle contraction which influences the contractile force by determining the rate of regeneration of ATP directly available for myosin ATPase, and at the same time controls the activator calcium entry into the myoplasm across the surface membrane of the cells.
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PMID:Role of creatine phosphokinase in cellular function and metabolism. 36 Nov 88

Human myosin light chain-2 (MYL2) is an important protein involved in the regulation of myosin ATPase activity in smooth muscle. In cardiac muscle, the precise role of MYL2 is not well understood; however, an increase in ventricular MYL2 is observed during myocardial hypertrophy in cardiac patients with valve stenosis. The chromosomal location of the gene coding for MYL2 was identified using a cloned cDNA for human MYL2. Southern blot analysis of DNA from a human/rodent somatic cell hybrid mapping panel showed that the BamHI fragment that hybridized with this cDNA probe was concordant with chromosome 12. The 768-bp cDNA was hybridized to human metaphase chromosomes. The results revealed a significant clustering of silver grains over chromosome 12 bands q23-q24.3, indicating that the gene coding for MYL2 is located in this region.
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PMID:Localization of the gene coding for ventricular myosin regulatory light chain (MYL2) to human chromosome 12q23-q24.3. 138 40

One of the fundamental properties of cardiac muscle is the increase in force generated and work performed with a rise in the resting length of the tissue. There are data to indicate that length-dependent responses of electromechanical coupling and calcium binding by troponin are part of the basis for the pressure-volume relation in the heart. In this study, the contribution of changes in the functional properties of the contractile proteins independent of modification in electromechanical coupling has been examined. Isolated working hearts containing either a mixture of myosin heavy chain (MHC) isozymes (alpha[fast] and beta [slow]) or exclusively the fast MHC have been subjected to left atrial filling pressures (LAPs) between 5 and 20 cm H2O. After 40 minutes at a given LAP, the heart was quickly frozen. The relative activities of calcium- and actin-activated ATPase of V1 and V3 myosin, containing alpha- and beta-MHC, were measured in cryostatic sections of the heart by quantitative histochemistry under conditions for which the concentration of calcium would not be limiting. In hearts containing both isozymes of myosin, the relative enzymatic activity of each isozyme of myosin varied with LAP. At low LAP, V1 was primarily responsible for the enzymatic activity, but as LAP increased the relative contribution of V1 decreased and that of V3 increased. The change in the calcium- and actin-activated activities of the enzyme with change in LAP occurred within 5 minutes and was reversible. In spite of the apparent substitution of enzymatic activity of V3 for V1, total myosin ATPase activity did not decline, but instead remained constant.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Effect of left atrial filling pressure on the activity of specific myosin isozymes in rat heart. 164 32


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