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. 1995 Apr;68(4 Suppl):50S–54S.

Actin's view of actomyosin interface.

C J Miller 1, P Cheung 1, P White 1, E Reisler 1
PMCID: PMC1281863  PMID: 7787100

Abstract

Actomyosin interactions were examined by using yeast actin mutants with alanines replacing charged amino acid pairs D24/D25, E99/E100, D80/D81, and E83/K84. In the in vitro motility experiments, actin filaments of D24A/D25A or E99A/E100A mutants moved in the presence of 0.7% methylcellulose at the velocities of wild-type actin. Without methylcellulose, these mutant filaments, but not the D80/D81 or E83/K84 filaments, dissociated from the assay surface upon addition of ATP. Measurements of myosin subfragment-1 (S1) binding to D24A/D25A- and E99A/E100A-polymerized actins in the presence of ATP revealed a three- and twofold decrease in their binding constant, respectively, compared with wild-type actin. In contrast to this, all monomeric actins had the same binding affinity for S1. The rates and extents of polymerization of D24A/D25A and E99A/E100A actins by S1 were reduced in comparison to wild-type actin. The local structure of subdomain-2 on actin, as probed by subtilisin cleavage, was not altered for either mutant. A twofold decrease in nucleotide exchange was detected for the D24A/D25A mutant actin. These results demonstrate the involvement of the D24/D25 and E99/E100 residues in the weak binding of myosin to actin and reveal that residues D80/D81 and E83/K84 do not modulate actomyosin interactions.

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