The effects of tropomyosin and the three components of troponin on the Mg
2+-activated ATPase [EC 3.6.1.3] activity of reconstituted actomyosin were studied over a wide range of MgATP concentrations (0.002-1mM) in 40mM KCl at pH 7.2 and 25°C. The following results were obtained.
1. In the absence of tropomyosin, each of the two components of troponin with molecular weights of 23, 000 (TN-I) and 37, 000 (TN-P) activated the ATPase activity of actomyosin at MgATP concentrations above 0.1mM and inhibited it below 0.1mM. A mixture of both the components activated the ATPase activity considerably at MgATP concentrations above 0.04-0.05mM and inhibited it slightly below 0.04mM. These effects on ATPase were unaffected by Ca
2+. The component of troponin with a molecular weight of 19, 000 (TN-C) neutralized both the activating and inhibitory activities of TN-I, TN-P or a mixture of these two components, regardless of the Ca
2+ concentration, although TN-C alone had no effect on the ATPase activity of actomyosin.
3. In the presence of tropomyosin, TN-I inhibited the ATPase activity irrespective of the Ca
2+ concentration, so that it reduced the concentration at which MgATP became inhibitory for the ATPase, to the level obtained with the complete relaxing protein system in the absence of Ca
2+, while TN-C had no effect on the ATPase activity even in the presence of tropomyosin. In the presence of tropomyosin, TN-P slightly inhibited the ATPase activity at low concentrations of MgATP but activated it at high concentrations of MgATP.
4. When TN-C was added to the TN-I-tropomyosin system, the Ca
2+-sensitivity of the ATPase of actomyosin was only incompletely restored, since the inhibitory effect of the TN-C-TN-I-tropomyosin system in the absence of Ca
2+ was weak, and since the ATPase was not activated in the presence of Ca
2+ and at high concentrations of MgATP. The inhibitory activity of the TN-I-tropomyosin system was unaffected by addition of TN-P. When the TN-P-TN-C-tropomyosin system was added to actomyosin, Ca
2+-sensitivity of the ATPase was also observed, but the ATPase activity at high MgATP concentrations was higher in the absence of Ca
2+ than in its presence.
5. The relaxing protein activities were completely reproduced, only when tropomyosin and all the three components of troponin were added to actomyosin.
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