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. 1967 Dec;105(3):1235–1243. doi: 10.1042/bj1051235

The effect of tropomyosin on the adenosine triphosphatase activity of desensitized actomyosin

M C Schaub 1,*, S V Perry 1, D J Hartshorne 1,†
PMCID: PMC1198446  PMID: 16742551

Abstract

1. Tropomyosin preparations of the Bailey type, and those prepared in the presence of dithiothreitol to prevent oxidation of protein thiol groups, inhibit the Ca2+-activated adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) of desensitized actomyosin by up to 60%. 2. The inhibitory activity of myofibrillar extracts and tropomyosin survives various agents known to denature proteins but to the action of which tropomyosin is unusually stable, namely heating at 100° and mild tryptic digestion. It is destroyed by prolonged treatment with trypsin. 3. The ethylenedioxybis-(ethyleneamino)tetra-acetic acid (EGTA)-sensitizing factor present in extracts of natural actomyosin and myofibrils could be selectively destroyed, leaving unchanged the inhibitory effect on the Ca2+-activated ATPase. There was no correlation between the EGTA-sensitizing and the Ca2+-activated inhibitory activities of tropomyosin prepared under different conditions. 4. Optimum inhibition was achieved when tropomyosin and the myosin of desensitized actomyosin were present in approximately equimolar proportions. Tropomyosin had no effect on the Ca2+-activated ATPase of myosin measured under similar conditions. 5. Evidence is presented showing that the tropomyosin binds to desensitized actomyosin under the conditions in which the ATPase is inhibited.

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