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Query: EC:3.6.4.1 (myosin ATPase)
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Some properties of creatine kinase were investigated in a two-enzyme system, myosin ATPase-creatine kinase. A rise in the creatine activity in the presence of native myosin was demonstrated. The addition of proteolytic fragments of myosin caused a similar effect. Thermostability of creatine kinase in the presence of native myosin increased. Blocking of amino groups of myosin by TNBS had no effect on its activating capacity, but decreased its influence on thermostability of creatine kinase. Localization of the binding sites of creatine kinase on the myosin molecule is discussed in the present work.
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PMID:[Effect of myosin and its fragments on some creatine kinase properties]. 13 78

The interaction between paramyosin and myosin has been studied by enzymological methods. Clam adductor paramyosin inhibits the actin-activated, Mg2+-requiring ATPase of both clam adductor and rabbit skeletal muscle myosins. Myosin and paramyosin must be rapidly coprecipitated for this inhibition. Incubation with F-actin in the absence of ATP does not alter this effect. This inhibition follows a hyperbolic function with respect to paramyosin concentration. Slow precipitation by dialysis of myosin and paramyosin together leads to copolymers with actin-activated ATPase equivalent to that of slowly formed myosin filaments. Both kinds of slowly formed filaments have enzymatic properties distinct from those of the rapidly precipitated proteins. Paramyosin is competitive with F-actin for their effects upon myosin. The apparent affinity of myosin for F-actin is markedly reduced by association with paramyosin, but the extrapolated maximal velocity of actomyosin is unaffected. The specificity of this inhibition is strongly suggested by marked quantitative differences between native and cleaved paramyosins. No inhibition of intrinsic myosin ATPase by paramyosin is seen. These studies suggest that at least two types of condition-dependent association between myosin and paramyosin are possible. One class of interactions is associated with enzymic inhibition in rapidly coprecipitated filaments, whereas slowly formed cofilaments exhibit catalytic activity similar to that of identically treat-d myosin and have a characteristic 14.5 nm axial repeat.
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PMID:Myosin-paramyosin cofilaments: enzymatic interactions with F-actin. 13 57

Important similarities are reported between human smooth muscle actomyosin and the human erythrocyte spectrin complex, primarily components 1, 2, and 5 (Fairbanks G., Steck, T.L., and Wallach, D.F.H. (1971), Biochemistry 10, 2606). The actin-like protein, component 5, is identical with human uterine actin in its ability to form 50-70-A filaments to stimulate myosin ATPase activity, and to bind rabbit heavy meromyoson specit heavy meromyosin specifically. Antibodies to human smooth muscle myosin(uterine) were prepared which were monospecific. A weak but specific cross-reaction of these antisera with components 1 and/or 2 (spectrin) was characterized and at least 25% of the antimyosin antibodies showed a low affinity reaction iwth spectrin. Antibodies generated against a soluble complex of spectrin components 1 and 2 reacted only with component 1 and did not cross-react with myosin. In addition to these structural similarities between smooth muscle actomyosin and the spectrin complex, we have found that spectrin is involved in ATP-dependent erythrocyte shape changes (Sheetz, M.P., Painter, R.G., AND Singer, S.J. (1976B), Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Cell Motility (in press) and, therefore, the spectrin complex is also a mechanochemical protein system.
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PMID:Relationships of the spectrin complex of human erythrocyte membranes to the actomyosins of muscle cells. 13 78

The immunogenicity of smooth muscle actin is increased by ageing at 4 degrees for at least a week. Rabbits lacking natural smooth muscle antibodies were injected with 1 mg of aged purified actin in adjuvant. Fourteen out of thirty-six rabbits produced serum antibodies which precipitated with actin solution, but not with smooth muscle tropomyosin, myosin, light or heavy meromyosin or with other unidentified non-actin proteins in crude extracts. Analysis of crude actin extract before and after precipitation by antiserum (i) by Sephadex G-200 chromatography and (ii) for its stimulating effect on myosin ATPase activity showed that actin was selectively removed. The precipitate itself, analysed on SDS-polyacrylamide gel, showed one band in the actin position, and otherwise only bands representing immunoglobulins. The antiserum also inhibited the ability of actin to stimulate myosin ATPase activity, and prevented polymerization of G-actin to F-actin, as shown by viscosity and EM studies. On immunoflouresence with cryostat tissue sections or cell cultures, anti-actin serum stained smooth muscle fibres and many non-muscle cells, in the latter staining the microfilaments. The staining was prevented by absorbing the antiserum with actin (16 mug per 5 mul serum), and was abolished by pretreatment of the cells with cytochalasin B. No species specificity was demonstrated for these anti-actin antibodies.
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PMID:The specificity of anti-actin serum. 13 24

Ca2+ATPase activity and light chains of myosin, fractionated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, in developing, adult and denervated fast, slow and cardiac muscles of the rat, guinea-pig, cat, rabbit and chick were studied. It has been shown that in normal adult muscles the electrophoretic pattern of light chains of myosin reflects the myosin ATPase activity only when muscles from the same animal species are compared. In homologous muscles from adult animals differing in size, the size-dependent difference in myosin ATPase activity is not revealed in the electrophoretic pattern. Both in developing and in denervated muscle, changes in myosin ATPase activity are either connected with changes in the pattern of light chains of myosin or this pattern does not change. This relation is different in fast and slow muscles and also differs in chick and rabbit muscles. There are several possibilities of explaining the relation between ATPase activity of myosin and the pattern of light chains of myosin. The observation that myosin from the soleus muscle of 1-month-old rabbit contains light chains corresponding to both fast and slow type of myosin, indicates that the change in myosin ATPase activity during development is due to changes in the ratio between the fast and slow type of myosin.
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PMID:The relation between ATPASE activity and light chains of myosin in developing, adult and denervated muscles of several animals species. 13 84

The effects of a moderate physical training program on the hearts of rats have been studied. The mechanical responses of these hearts are improved. Possible contributing factors in this improvement are increased coronary reserve and capacity to deliver oxygen to the myocardium, increased myocardial glycogen stores and increased turnover of fatty acids through the endogenous triglyceride pool. Myocardial oxidative compounds and high energy phosphate stores are not altered. Major changes are found in the energy utilization pathways. Actomyosin, myosin, and heavy meromyosin ATPase activity and binding activity of isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum are all enhanced. Sulfhydryl control of the active site of myosin ATPase is altered. The biochemical effects of conditioning are short lived when training is decreased or discontinued.
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PMID:Effects of physical training and detraining on intrinsic cardiac control mechanisms. 13 72

Bovine cardiac myosin ATPase activity was rapidly inactivated by the purine disulfide analog of ATP,6,6'-dithiobis(inosinyl imidodiphosphate). Kinetic investigations showed that this analog acted as a site-specific reagent at 0 degrees with a Ki of 130 muM and a half-life of 8.2 min at saturating inhibitor concentrations. Concentrations (50 to 500 muM) of ATP, adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP), or ADP that saturated the active site caused an enhancement in the rate of inactivation, indicating the purine disulfide analog was not reacting at the active site. Under these conditions saturation kinetic data were still observed with Ki values remaining unchanged (120 muM) but with the half-life of inactivation decreasing to 6.0 min (ATP) and 4.6 min (AMP-PNP) at saturating inhibitor concentrations. At concentrations greater than 0.5 mM ATP, AMP-PNP, or ADP there was a decrease in the rate of inactivation, implying protection by these nucleotides. However, saturation kinetics of inactivation could no longer be demonstrated, implying a change in the mechanism of inactivation. A comparison of the inactivation of the Mg2+, Ca2+, and EDTA-ATPase activities of cardiac myosin after modification by the purine disulfide analog showed that the Mg2+- and Ca2+ATPase activities plateaued at approximately 60% and 40%, respectively, while the EDTA-ATPase activity continued to decrease to below 10%. This evidence supports the suggestion that the purine disulfide analog was not reacting at the active site. Equilibrium dialysis experiments were used to measure the binding of [8-3H]AMP-PNP to native cardiac myosin, the thiopurine nucleotide-modified myosin, and the derivative formed by displacing the thiopurine nucleotide by cyanide (thiocyanato-myosin). Native myosin bound a total of 2.1 mol of AMP-PNP with a binding constant of 6.0 X 10(6) M-1. There was a 15 to 40% decrease in the number of AMP-PNP binding sites in the enzyme derivatives, but the active sites appeared not to be blocked since the association constants remained essentially unchanged (KA=3.9 X 10(6) M-1 for thiopurine nucleotide-myosin and 12.0 X 10(6) M-1 for thiocyanato-myosin). The kinetic studies and the binding experiments indicate that the purine disulfide analog reacts at a specific site other than the active site but do not offer support to earlier suggestions from skeletal myosin studies that this site is a possible ATP control site.
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PMID:Reaction of cardiac myosin with a purine disulfide analog of adenosine triphosphate. I. Kinetics of inactivation and binding of adenylyl imidodiphosphate. 13 83

The Ca2+-activated myosin ATPase and the amino acid compositions of actin and myosin were determined for preparations from chronically failing dog hearts. Hypertrophy and congestive heart failure were produced by combined tricuspid valve insufficiency and pulmonary artery stenosis. Control, shamoperated, and noncardiac circulatory failure (inferior vena cava constriction) dogs also were studied. All hearts were divided into right ventricle, septum and left ventricle and each sample was individually analyzed. Calcium-activated ATPase decreased in the failing hearts and showed a distinct gradient of depression from right to left ventricles. There were no changes in ATPase activity among the other groups. The amino acid composition of actin was the same regardless of origin. The amino acid composition of myosin was unaltered except that cystine/2 residues were markedly decreased in failing heart myosin. The same gradient of depression was present as was found for Ca2+-activated myosin ATPase. This study suggests that protein metabolism is abnormal and that altered proteins are produced in hypertrophy and congestive heart failure. It appears that these changes do not affect all proteins, since actin was normal by the parameters studied. It is clear that the stressed ventricle is the most severely involved, but the entire heart is altered to some degree. Thus, we conclude that altered protein metabolism may be an important primary factor in the genesis of heart failure.
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PMID:The amino acid composition of actin and myosin and Ca2+-activated myosin adenosine triphosphatase in chronic canine congestive heart failure. 13 12

Human cardiac myosin isolated from operatively obtained samples of ventricular septum and left ventricular free wall of subjects with asymmetric septal hypertrophy (ASH) was compared, with respect to structural and enzymatic properties, to myosin isolated from hearts of subjects without heart disease. The following parameters were studied: (1) activation of myosin ATPase activity by K+-EDTA and Ca2+, (2) molecular weight of the heavy and light chains of myosin as determined by electrophoretic migration in polyacrylamide-sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) gels and (3) ability to form bipolar aggregates at low ionic strength, as examined by electron microscopy. No difference was present in any of these parameters between human cardiac myosin from subjects with ASH and from subjects without heart disease. Thus, the genetic defect present in subjects with ASH is not expressed in the particular structural and functional characteristics of myosin evaluated in this study.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of myosin from subjects with asymmetric septal hypertrophy. 14 25

N-(3-pyrene)maleimide adducts of myosin (PM-myosin) are fluorescent and possess actin-activated Mg2+ ATPase activity. Addition of ATP to PM-myosin produces a reversible decrease of 10% in fluorescence intensity of the pyrene fluorophore in the presence of actin. Analogues of ATP which are poor substrates for myosin ATPase or which merely dissociate actomyosin produce less decrease in fluorescence of PM-myosin than does ATP. Since fluorescence of acto-PM-myosin is sensitive to environmental changes associated with ATP hydrolysis, and/or with fluorophore-actin interactions. PM-myosin may be a useful analysis of molecular aspects of muscle contraction.
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PMID:Preparation and characterization of fluorescent N-(3-pyrene)maleimide adducts of myosin. 14 Feb 1


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