The time-course of decrease in light-scattering intensity of reconstituted actomyosin after adding ATP was measured by a stopped-flow method, and the following results were obtained.
1. In the presence of 1 or 2M KCl, the minimum amount of ATP required for the maximum decrease in light-scattering intensity of actomyosin was 1 mole per 4×10
5g of myosin. The value of τ
1/
2 (the time for half final decrease) was independent of the ATP concentration, when the latter was lower than the stoichiometric value (1 mole per 4×10
5g of myosin), but it decreased with increasing ATP concentration above the stoichiometric value. Under various conditions, the values of τ
1/
2 were essentially the same as those of the initial burst of hydrogen ion liberation on the addition of ATP to myosin.
2. When the concentration of myosin was varied with a fixed concentration of F-actin, the value of τ
1/2 seemed to be unaffected by changing the ratio of myosin to F-actin, but the amount of ATP required for the maximum decrease in light-scattering intensity increased in proportion to the amount of myosin, and was 1 mole per 4×10
5g of myosin.
3. Both the amount of ATP required for the maximum decrease in light-scattering intensity of actomyosin and the amount of the initial P
i-liberation in the actomyosin-ATP system increased above the stoichiometric value, with decrease in KCl concentration below 0. 45M.
4. The rate constant of the recovery step of the decrease in lightscattering was almost five fold that of the decomposition of phosphoryl myosin into myosin+P
1+H
+, and about half that of the decomposition of the Michaelis complex by simple hydrolysis. The rate of the recovery phase was independent of the concentration of F-actin.
5. Both the rate of decrease and the rate of restoration of lightscattering intensity after adding ATP to actomyosin were almost independent of pH between pH 6.0 and 9.5.
6. Accordingly, the initial reaction of reconstituted actomyosin (F-A-M) with ATP (S) can be explained by the following mechanism: _??_ where F-A-M-S represents the Michaelis complex of actomyosin and ATP, _??_ is the complex of F-actin with phosphoryl myosin _??_, and M-P is a myosin-phosphate complex, which is formed from phosphoryl myosin by the liberation of ADP.
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