Distances between tropomyosin sites across the muscle thin filament using luminescence resonance energy transfer: evidence for tropomyosin flexibility |
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Authors: | Chen Yaodong Lehrer Sherwin S |
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Affiliation: | Muscle and Motility Group, 64 Grove Street, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472, USA. y.chen@cellbio.duke.edu |
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Abstract: | To obtain information about the interaction of tropomyosin (Tm) with actin associated with the regulatory states of the muscle thin filament, we used luminescence resonance energy transfer (LRET) between Tb(3+) as a donor and rhodamine as an acceptor. A novel Tb(3+) chelator, S-(2-nitro-5-thiobenzoate)cysteaminyl-DTPA-Cs124, was synthesized, which specifically labels Cys groups in proteins. With the Tb chelate as the donor and tetramethylrhodamine-5-maleimide as the acceptor, both bound to specific Cys groups of Tm, we obtained 67 A as the distance between Tm's across the actin filament, a much shorter value than that obtained from structural studies (72-86 A). The difference appears to be due to submillisecond motion associated with Tm flexibility, which brings the probes closer during the millisecond lifetime of the donor. Ca(2+) did not change the energy transfer with the reconstituted thin filament, but myosin subfragment 1 decreased the transfer, consistent with either a 5-6 A increase in distance or, more likely, a decrease in flexibility. |
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