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. 1988 Apr;53(4):513–524. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(88)83131-X

Effects of AMPPNP on the orientation and rotational dynamics of spin-labeled muscle cross-bridges.

P G Fajer 1, E A Fajer 1, N J Brunsvold 1, D D Thomas 1
PMCID: PMC1330225  PMID: 2838098

Abstract

We have used electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) to investigate the orientation, rotational motion, and actin-binding properties of rabbit psoas muscle cross-bridges in the presence of the nonhydrolyzable nucleotide analogue, 5'-adenylylimido-diphosphate (AMPPNP). This analogue is known to decrease muscle tension without affecting its stiffness, suggesting an attached cross-bridge state different from rigor. We spin-labeled the SH1 groups on myosin heads and performed conventional EPR to obtain high-resolution information about the orientational distribution, and saturation transfer EPR to measure microsecond rotational motion. At 4 degrees C and 100 mM ionic strength, we find that AMPPNP increases both the orientational disorder and the microsecond rotational motion of myosin heads. However, computer analysis of digitized spectra shows that no new population of probes is observed that does not match either rigor or relaxation in both orientation and motion. At 4 degrees C, under nearly saturating conditions of 16 mM AMPPNP (Kd = 3.0 mM, determined from competition between AMPPNP and an ADP spin label), 47.5 +/- 2.5% of myosin heads are dynamically disoriented (as in relaxation) without a significant decrease in rigor stiffness, whereas the remainder are rigidly oriented as in rigor. The oriented heads correspond to actin-attached heads in a ternary complex, and the disoriented heads correspond to detached heads, as indicated by EPR experiments with spin-labeled subfragment 1 (S1) that provide independent measurements of orientation and binding. We take these findings as evidence for a single-headed cross-bridge that is as stiff as the double-headed rigor cross-bridge. The data are consistent with a model in which, in the presence of saturating AMPPNP, one head of each cross-bridge binds actin about 10 times more weakly, whereas the remaining head binds at least 10 times more strongly, than extrinsic S1. Thus, although there is no evidence for heads being attached at nonrigor angles, the attached cross-bridge differs from that of rigor. The heterogeneous behavior of heads is probably due to steric effects of the filament lattice.

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