Characterization of the motor and enzymatic properties of smooth muscle long S1 and short HMM: role of the two-headed structure on the activity and regulation of the myosin motor.
1996
Truncated mutants of smooth muscle myosin containing various lengths of the S2 portion were expressed in Sf9 cells and purified. Truncated myosin having a heavy chain molecular mass of 128 kDa and larger formed a stable dimer, while 108 kDa myosin remained a monomer. On the other hand, 114 and 110 kDa myosins existed as both monomer and dimer. The enzymatic activity and also the in vitro actin sliding activity of these mutant myosins were measured, and the following findings were obtained. (1) Both the actin sliding activity and the actin-activated ATPase activity showed phosphorylation dependence when myosin forms a dimer while the monomeric form was phosphorylation-independent. This indicates that the interaction between the two heads is operating and critical for the regulation. (2) The actin sliding velocity of the dimer form was twice as large as that of the monomer form, while the actin-activated ATPase activity of the two forms was identical, suggesting that the mechano-chemical efficiency is affec...
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