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J. Biochem, 1982, Vol. 91, No. 6 1999-2012
© 1982 Japanese Biochemical Society

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Cross-Linking Study on Skeletal Muscle Actin: Properties of Suberimidate-Treated Actin1

Osamu OHARA, Sho TAKAHASHI, Tatsuo OOI and Yoshinori FUJIYOSHI

Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611

Cross-linking experiments were performed on muscle skeletal actin, using imido esters of various chain lengths. Chemical analyses on all products except one (derived from succinimidate) show evidence of the presence of intramolecular crosslinks in the molecule. The detailed properties of suberimidate-treated actin (SA) are as follows: SA contains nearly 1 mol of intramolecular cross-link per mol of actin and less than 15% of intermolecularly cross-linked products. Even at a low salt concentration, SA is polymeric, exchanges slowly its bound nucleotide with free nucleotides in solution, and shows an F-actin-type CD spectrum. Electron micrographs of SA reveal that SA exists actually as fibrous polymers in solutions of low ionic strength, although the fibers seem to be less rigid than those at high salt concentration. The F-form of SA at a high salt concentration is indistinguishable from intact F-actin. SA can bind heavy meromyosin and activate the ATPase of heavy meromyosin as observed for intact F-actin. Tropomyosin binds SA only at a high salt concentration. These results show that SA possesses the properties of F-actin even in media of low salt concentration, which are favorable for depoly-merization of F-actin. Thus, we may infer that the conformation of SA is frozen in the F-state of actin by the introduction of intramolecular cross-links in the protein.

1This study was supported in part by a research grant from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan.


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