ABSTRACT
Scallop S1 has a region sensitive to tryptic hydrolysis not found thus far in S1s of other species, located 65K from the N-terminus as determined by SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. In the presence of actin the S1 heavy chain is preferentially cleaved at this site. The high-salt EDTA and calcium ATPase activities of the nicked 65K-31K S1 are abolished. This inactivation is not due to denaturation, conformational effects of actin, or to light chain dissociation. The unique proteolytic site of scallop S1 is adjacent to a peptide involved in actin-S1 interaction in scallop and rabbit but it is far removed from the nucleotide-binding site in the linear amino acid sequence. We conclude that proteolysis inactivates the high-salt ATPase activities through a connection mediated by tertiary interactions. Such a connection provides a structural correlate for the known reciprocal relationship between the nucleotide and actin affinities of myosin.
Subject(s)
Actins/metabolism , Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism , Myosins/metabolism , Animals , Chemical Phenomena , Chemistry, Physical , Molecular Weight , Mollusca , Myosin Subfragments , Peptide Fragments/metabolism , Protein Binding , Rabbits , Structure-Activity Relationship , Temperature , TrypsinABSTRACT
When scallop S1(+LC) (formerly called CaMg S1) is digested by trypsin, the heavy chain degrades while the two light chains remain complexed to each other and a peptide fragment of the heavy chain. The three components of the complex comigrate during electrophoresis under nondissociating conditions and can be purified by chromatography and concentrated by precipitation with ammonium sulphate in the presence of millimolar calcium ions. The truncated regulatory light chain remains associated with the binary complex consisting of the peptide and essential light chain as long as divalent cations are present; in the presence of EDTA it dissociates. This behaviour of the light chains-peptide complex mimics that of the intact molecule. The effect of bound light chains and bound actin on the susceptibility to tryptic digestion was studied using scallop S1(+LC) and S1(-LC) (EDTA S1 according to previous nomenclature). The heavy chains of both types of S1 are labile and have two main sites susceptible to proteolysis. Tryptic digestion on site A produces an N-terminal peptide of around 70 000 and a C-terminal 24 000 fragment from S1(+LC) and a 20 000 C-terminal fragment from S1(-LC); the latter is prone to further proteolysis. Thus S1(-LC), produced in the absence of bound regulatory light chain is shorter on the C-terminal end. Proteolysis on site A abolishes actin-activated ATPase activity; the latter is prevented by digesting acto-S1. The rate of tryptic digestion on site B is somewhat slower than on site A; when either S1 is split at this site an N-terminal 63 000 peptide is produced. The corresponding C-terminal peptide can be obtained from acto-S1 when hydrolysis on site A is prevented; this is estimated as around 31 000 derived from S1(+LC) and 28 000 derived from S1(-LC). The results are compared with similar experiments where vertebrate subfragments were digested by trypsin and the possible localization of the light-chain binding peptide in the intact heavy chain is discussed.
Subject(s)
Mollusca/analysis , Myosins/analysis , Peptide Fragments/analysis , Actins/metabolism , Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism , Animals , Calcium-Transporting ATPases/metabolism , Chromatography , Electrophoresis , In Vitro Techniques , Molecular Weight , Myosin Subfragments , Peptide Fragments/isolation & purification , TrypsinABSTRACT
Calcium control was studied in single-headed myosin and subfragment-1 (S1) preparations obtained by papain digestion of scallop myosin. Single-headed myosin, containing light chains in stoichiometric amounts, was calcium regulated; in contrast, the actin-activated Mg-ATPase of all S1 species lacked calcium sensitivity. Both regulatory and essential light chains were retained by S1 and single-headed myosin preparations provided divalent cations were present during papain digestion, although a peptide amounting to 10% of the mass was removed from regulatory light chains. The modified regulatory light chain retained its ability to confer calcium binding and restore calcium sensitivity to the ATPase of desensitized myofibrils. Regulatory light chains protected the essential light chains from fragmentation by papain. S1 bound regulatory light chains with a uniformly high affinity and appeared to consist of a single species. The results demonstrate that head to head interactions are not obligatory for calcium control, although they may occur in the intact myosin molecule, and suggest a role for the subfragment-2 region in calcium regulation of myosin.
