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  • Title: [Study of structural changes in muscle fiber contractile proteins using polarization ultraviolet fluorescent microscopy. IV. Several features of the conformational changes in F-actin during muscle fiber relaxation].
    Author: Borovikov IuS, Kirillina VP, Chernogriadskaia NA.
    Journal: Tsitologiia; 1978 Oct; 20(10):1161-6. PubMed ID: 726060.
    Abstract:
    Using the polarized ultraviolet fluorescent microscopy in the presence of a fluorescence quencher (acrylamide, NO3-) it has been shown that actin tryptophanyls are oriented with their short axes perpendicular to the long axis of the thin filament. Fluorophores in hardly accessible sites of the macromolecule have a more pronounced anisotrophy of orientation in comparison with those in the protein sites easily available by a fluorescence quencher. During the muscle fiber relaxation, conformational changes of F-actin take place which embrace seemingly the sites of subunits, close to the surface of macromolecule, and make difficult the penetration of univalent ions and neutral molecules deep into the protein macromolecule. Some connection between conformational changes of the surface areas of F-actin subunits and the actin incapability of combining with HMM in the presence of ATP is assumed.
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