Myosin-linked calcium regulation in vertebrate smooth muscle. |
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Authors: | A Sobieszek J V Small |
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Affiliation: | Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark |
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Abstract: | By the use of a new procedure, actomyosin may be extracted in high yield and purity from fowl gizzard which exhibits a calcium-dependent actin-activated ATPase activity comparable to that of the parent myofibril-like preparation. Studies of this vertebrate smooth muscle actomyosin show that the regulation of the actin-myosin interaction is effected, as in molluscan muscles, by the myosin molecule itself and not by an actin-linked regulatory system, as found in vertebrate skeletal muscle.Thus, calcium-sensitive smooth muscle actomyosin is composed of only myosin, actin and tropomyosin, any troponin-like components being absent. Myosin is the only component that binds significant amounts of calcium and shows a calcium-dependent actin-activated ATPase activity in the presence of F-actin from either gizzard or rabbit skeletal muscle.The cross-reaction of gizzard thin filaments with skeletal muscle myosin produces an actomyosin whose actin-activated ATPase is calcium-insensitive, showing that smooth muscle thin filaments do not serve a regulatory function.The effect of Mg2+ and pH, and evidence for the involvement of one of the myosin light chains in calcium regulation are described and discussed. |
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