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  • Title: Polymerization of actin modified with fluorescein isothiocyanate.
    Author: Miller L, Phillips M, Reisler E.
    Journal: Eur J Biochem; 1988 May 16; 174(1):23-9. PubMed ID: 2967182.
    Abstract:
    Solution properties of skeletal muscle actin, modified at lysine-61 with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) [Burtnick, L.D. (1984) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 791, 57-62], were re-examined in this work by light scattering, analytical ultracentrifugation, fluorescence, electron microscopy and myosin ATPase activity measurements. Fluorescence measurements using trace amounts of actin labeled with N-(1-pyrenyl)iodoacetamide showed that the FITC modification inhibited but did not block completely the polymerization of actin by KCl and MgCl2. Sedimentation velocity runs of FITC-actin, incubated with 100 mM KCl and 2 mM MgCl2, revealed the presence in these solutions of polymeric, oligomeric and monomeric species. The critical concentration for FITC-actin polymerization under these conditions was 12 microM. As judged by electron microscopy, FITC-actin polymers were similar to but generally shorter than standard F-actin filaments. Light scattering measurements indicated that FITC modification inhibited also the polymerization of actin by myosin subfragment 1 (S1) but the resulting complexes were indistinguishable from standard, decorated actin filaments. MgATPase measurements showed that FITC-actin, polymerized by preincubation with S1, activated the MgATPase activity of S1 while the monomeric labeled protein did not. Thus, in analogy to native actin, the activating function of FITC-actin depended on the formation of actin filaments. Results presented in this study suggest that the region around lysine-61 of actin plays an important role in actin-actin contact and is less crucial to actomyosin interaction.
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