Two chymotrypsin-susceptible sites of myosin rod from chicken gizzard
- 1 May 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 148 (3), 521-528
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1985.tb08870.x
Abstract
The rod prepared from chicken gizzard myosin has been found to have 2 sites sensitive to limited digestion with chymotrypsin; these sites were located at a subfragment 2/light meromyosin junction (site 1), and at a site 10 kDa remote from either C-terminal or N-terminal of light meromyosin (site 2). The site 1 was more sensitive to the digestion than the site 2. The cleavage at site 2 of the light meromyosin yielded a 74-kDa fragment that was soluble in a low ionic strength solution, contrary to the insolubility of the parent light meromyosin in the same solution. Studies on the effects of MgCl2, ATP and pH on the susceptibilities of these sites to chymotrypsin have given the following results. Millimolar concentrations of MgCl2 protected site 1 and site 2 from the chymotryptic cleavage. The cleavage at site 1 of myosin rod in the low salt solution free of Mg2+ at pH 7.0 and pH 8.5, was not affected by the presence of 5 mM ATP. However, MgCl2-induced protection of site 1 was relieved by addition of ATP. On the other hand, the cleavage at site 2 was stimulated by addition of ATP, irrespective of the presence or absence of MgCl2. The alkaline condition of pH 8.5 was more favorable for the chymotryptic cleavages at both site 1 and site 2 than the neutral condition of pH 7.0. Myosin rod contains 2 flexible regions, the structures of which are influenced by such ambient factors as MgCl2, ATP or pH.This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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