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  • Title: Essential light chain exchange in scallop myosin.
    Author: Ashiba G, Szent-Györgyi AG.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1985 Nov 05; 24(23):6618-23. PubMed ID: 4084545.
    Abstract:
    The exchange of essential light chains (SH-LCs) of scallop myosin was followed with the aid of scallop SH-LC alkylated with 14C-labeled iodoacetate. More than 70% of the SH-LCs were exchanged in myosin preparations that were desensitized by removal of both regulatory light chains (R-LCs) with ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) treatment. Although desensitized myosin solubilized with 0.6 M NaCl or with 10 mM adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) in the absence of salt equilibrated rapidly with SH-LCs even in the cold, exchange in myosin filaments required elevated temperatures. Equilibration of the SH-LCs in desensitized preparations did not depend on ATP or magnesium ions but was significantly accelerated by actin. The desensitized myosin preparations containing alkylated SH-LCs (approximately 1 mol of thiol alkylated/mol of SH-LC) readily recombined with R-LCs. The preparations regained fully the calcium dependence of the actin-activated magnesium adenosinetriphosphatase (Mg-ATPase), contained R-LCs and SH-LCs in equimolar amounts, and had an ATPase activity similar to that of untreated myosin preparations. R-LCs interfered with the equilibration of the SH-LCs. In intact myosin preparations, the exchange of SH-LCs was slow and was frequently associated with the dissociation of the R-LCs. The blocking action of the R-LC on SH-LC exchange agrees with evidence showing that the two light chain types interact and suggests that parts of the SH-LC may lie between the R-LC and the heavy chain of myosin.
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