Acto-H-meromyosin was reconstituted from H-meromyosin and a preparation of F-actin prepared by extraction at room temperature,
i.e. a complex of F-actin and regulatory proteins. The effects of Ca
2+ and of modification of H-meromyosin with CMB on the acto-H-meromyosin-ATP system in 2 mM MgCl
2, 50mM KCl and 20mM Tris-maleate at pH 7.0 and 21-25° were investigated. The following results were obtained.
1. On adding ATP to acto-H-meromyosin, its intensity of light-scattering decreased to the level of the suns of those of H-meromyosin and F-actin. The value of τ
1/2 (the time for half the final decrease in light-scattering) was about 0.2 sec when 10 pM ATP was added, and decreased with increasing ATP concentration. It was unaffected by adding 0.1 mM CaCl
2 or 0.1 mM EGTA. The value of τ
1/2 for the recovery from the reduced scattering intensity was about 8 sec, and was unaffected by adding CaC12 or EGTA. The binding of H-meromyosin with F-actin was complete within 0.5 sec and was independent of Ca
2+. 2. One mole of initial burst of P
i-liberation was observed per mole of H-meromyosin, when 10 μM ATP were added to acto-H-meromyosin. The initial burst of P;-liber-ation was complete within 0.2 sec. At ATP concentrations below 3 PM, the acto-myosin type ATPase [EC 3. 6. 1. 3] activity in the steady state increased with in-creasing ATP concentration, and was independent of Ca
2+. At ATP concentrations above 3 μm, the activity decreased with increasing ATP concentration. The inhi-bition by excess substrate was much greater in the presence of EGTA than in the presence of Ca
2+.
3. The ATPase activity of acto-H-meromyosin, which was reconstituted from H-meromyosin and purified F-actin, was independent of Ca
2+, but was inhibited by substrate at concentrations above 3 μM. The actomyosin type ATPase activity in-creased with increase in F-actin concentration. The maximum activities, obtained by extrapolating F-actin concentrations to infinity, were almost independent of the methods of preparation of actin and treatment of H-meromyosin with CMB and β-mercaptoethanol.
4. The initial rate of decrease in light-scattering of acto-H-meromyosin induced by ATP was reduced to one third of the control value by treatment of H-meromyosin with CMB and β-mercaptoethanol. The extent of decrease in light-scattering of acto-H-meromyosin after this treatment induced by a sufficient amount of ATP was about 60% of that of untreated acto-H-meromyosin. In the steady state the rate of ATP hydrolysis by acto-H-meromyosin reconstituted from F-actin and CMB-treated H-meromyosin was independent of Cat+, and increased monotonously with increasing ATP concentration.
5. These results were analyzed by the following reaction mechanism for the acto-H-meromyosin-ATP system:
_??_
where
ks, and
KD are the rate constants and the dissociation constants, respectively, of the steps indicated. S and RP-FA-HMM represent, respectively, substrate (ATP) and acto-H-meromyosin reconstituted from F-actin extracted at room temperature (a complex of F-actin, FA, with regulatory proteins, RP) and H-meromyosin (HMM)._??_is a complex of RP-FA with phosphoryl H-meromyosin, which_??_is formed by the reaction of H-meromyosin with ATP, and RP-FA-HMM:_??_is a complex of RP-FA with a H-meromyosin-phosphate-ADP complex which is formed
via RP-FA-HMM_??_and rapidly dissociates into RP-FA and HMM:_??_with a dissociation constant
KD', which is much larger than
KD. The actomyosin type ATPase reaction takes place via two routes: steps 3 and 5. The following con-clusions were deduced from the above results. The formation of phosphoryl-H-meromyosin (step 1, 2) is independent of the presence of F-actin, regulatory proteins or Ca
2+
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