Coupling Between Phosphate Release and Force Generation in Muscle Actomyosin

Overview

Journal Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci

Specialty Biology

Date 2005 Jan 14

PMID 15647167

Citations 53

Authors

Y Takagi

H Shuman

Y E Goldman

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Abstract

Energetic, kinetic and oxygen exchange experiments in the mid-1980s and early 1990s suggested that phosphate (Pi) release from actomyosin-adenosine diphosphate Pi (AM.ADP.Pi) in muscle fibres is linked to force generation and that Pi release is reversible. The transition leading to the force-generating state and subsequent Pi release were hypothesized to be separate, but closely linked steps. Pi shortens single force-generating actomyosin interactions in an isometric optical clamp only if the conditions enable them to last 20-40 ms, enough time for Pi to dissociate. Until 2003, the available crystal forms of myosin suggested a rigid coupling between movement of switch II and tilting of the lever arm to generate force, but they did not explain the reciprocal affinity myosin has for actin and nucleotides. Newer crystal forms and other structural data suggest that closing of the actin-binding cleft opens switch I (presumably decreasing nucleotide affinity). These data are all consistent with the order of events suggested before: myosin.ADP.Pi binds weakly, then strongly to actin, generating force. Then Pi dissociates, possibly further increasing force or sliding.

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