Electron microscopic evidence for the myosin head lever arm mechanism in hydrated myosin filaments using the gas environmental chamber |
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Authors: | Minoda Hiroki Okabe Tatsuhiro Inayoshi Yuhri Miyakawa Takuya Miyauchi Yumiko Tanokura Masaru Katayama Eisaku Wakabayashi Takeyuki Akimoto Tsuyoshi Sugi Haruo |
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Affiliation: | aDepartment of Applied Physics, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganeishi, Tokyo184-8588, Japan;bCREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan;cDepartment of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan;dGraduate School of Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan;eDepartment of Biosciences, School of Science and Engineering, Teikyo University, Utsunomiya, Tochigiken 320-8551, Japan;fDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine, Teikyo University, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan |
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Abstract: | Muscle contraction results from an attachment–detachment cycle between the myosin heads extending from myosin filaments and the sites on actin filaments. The myosin head first attaches to actin together with the products of ATP hydrolysis, performs a power stroke associated with release of hydrolysis products, and detaches from actin upon binding with new ATP. The detached myosin head then hydrolyses ATP, and performs a recovery stroke to restore its initial position. The strokes have been suggested to result from rotation of the lever arm domain around the converter domain, while the catalytic domain remains rigid. To ascertain the validity of the lever arm hypothesis in muscle, we recorded ATP-induced movement at different regions within individual myosin heads in hydrated myosin filaments, using the gas environmental chamber attached to the electron microscope. The myosin head were position-marked with gold particles using three different site-directed antibodies. The amplitude of ATP-induced movement at the actin binding site in the catalytic domain was similar to that at the boundary between the catalytic and converter domains, but was definitely larger than that at the regulatory light chain in the lever arm domain. These results are consistent with the myosin head lever arm mechanism in muscle contraction if some assumptions are made. |
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Keywords: | Muscle contraction Myosin filament Myosin head Transmission electron microscope Gas environmental chamber |
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