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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 262, Issue 9, 4177-4181, Mar, 1987

Effect of phosphorylation on the binding of smooth muscle heavy meromyosin X ADP to actin

LE Greene and JR Sellers

Relaxation of both smooth and skeletal muscles appears to be caused primarily by inhibition of the step associated with Pi release in the actomyosin ATPase cycle, rather than by a block in the binding of the myosin X ATP and myosin X ADP X Pi complexes to actin. In skeletal muscle, troponin-tropomyosin not only causes marked inhibition of Pi release, but it also markedly inhibits the binding of myosin subfragment-1 X ADP to actin, raising the possibility that the two phenomena are coupled in some way. In the present study we determined whether phosphorylation of smooth muscle heavy meromyosin (HMM) also affects both the binding of HMM X ADP to actin and the Pi release step. This was done by having phosphorylated and unphosphorylated HMM X ADP compete for sites on F-actin. At mu = 30 mM, phosphorylation increased the affinity of the HMM molecule for actin about 12-fold and at mu = 170 mM, there was less than a 3-fold increase in the affinity of HMM. If phosphorylation affects the binding of each head of HMM to the same extent, then phosphorylation caused about a 4- and 2-fold increase in the affinity of each head of HMM for actin at mu = 30 and 170 mM, respectively. In contrast, at both ionic strengths, phosphorylation caused more than 100-fold actin activation of the ATPase activity of smooth muscle HMM. Therefore, the marked activation of Pi release in the acto X HMM ATPase cycle upon phosphorylation of HMM is not accompanied by a comparable increase in the affinity of HMM X ADP for actin. We have also found that phosphorylation increases by only 4-fold the rate of Pi release from HMM alone. These results suggest that in smooth muscle, phosphorylation accelerates the step associated with the release of Pi both in the forward and the reverse direction without correspondingly affecting the binding of myosin X ADP to actin.
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