Analysis of myosin heavy chain functionality in the heart |
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Authors: | Krenz Maike Sanbe Atsushi Bouyer-Dalloz Florence Gulick James Klevitsky Raisa Hewett Timothy E Osinska Hanna E Lorenz John N Brosseau Christine Federico Andrea Alpert Norman R Warshaw David M Perryman M Benjamin Helmke Steve M Robbins Jeffrey |
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Institution: | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, The Children's Hospital Research Foundation, MLC 7020, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229-3039, USA. |
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Abstract: | Comparison of mammalian cardiac alpha- and beta-myosin heavy chain isoforms reveals 93% identity. To date, genetic methodologies have effected only minor switches in the mammalian cardiac myosin isoforms. Using cardiac-specific transgenesis, we have now obtained major myosin isoform shifts and/or replacements. Clusters of non-identical amino acids are found in functionally important regions, i.e. the surface loops 1 and 2, suggesting that these structures may regulate isoform-specific characteristics. Loop 1 alters filament sliding velocity, whereas Loop 2 modulates actin-activated ATPase rate in Dictyostelium myosin, but this remains untested in mammalian cardiac myosins. Alpha --> beta isoform switches were engineered into mouse hearts via transgenesis. To assess the structural basis of isoform diversity, chimeric myosins in which the sequences of either Loop 1+Loop 2 or Loop 2 of alpha-myosin were exchanged for those of beta-myosin were expressed in vivo. 2-fold differences in filament sliding velocity and ATPase activity were found between the two isoforms. Filament sliding velocity of the Loop 1+Loop 2 chimera and the ATPase activities of both loop chimeras were not significantly different compared with alpha-myosin. In mouse cardiac isoforms, myosin functionality does not depend on Loop 1 or Loop 2 sequences and must lie partially in other non-homologous residues. |
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