Recent structural evidence (Rayment, I., Holden, H. M., Whittaker, M., Yohn, C. B., Lorenz, M., Holmes, K. C., and Milligan, R. A.(1993) Science 261, 58-65) suggests that the two heads of skeletal muscle myosin interact when the protein is bound to filamentous actin. Direct chemical cross-linking experiments show that the two heads of smooth muscle myosin interact in the presence of filamentous actin and the absence of ATP (Onishi, H., Maita, T., Matsuda, G., and Fujiwara, K.(1992) Biochemistry 31, 1201-1210). Head-head interactions may be important in the mechanism of phosphorylation-dependent regulation of smooth muscle myosin. To explore the structural elements essential for phosphorylation-dependent regulation, we purified a proteolytic fragment of chicken gizzard myosin containing only one head attached to an intact tail. This molecule contained a partially digested regulatory light chain, which was replaced with exogenously added intact light chain in either the thiophosphorylated or the unphosphorylated state. Control experiments showed that this replacement was nearly quantitative and did not alter the actin-activated ATPase of this myosin. Electron micrographs confirmed that the single-headed preparation contained an intact form of single-headed myosin. The unphosphorylated single-headed myosin hydrolyzed ATP rapidly and moved actin filaments in an in vitro motility assay. Phosphorylation had minimal effects upon these properties. Therefore, we conclude that phosphorylation-dependent regulation in this myosin requires two heads. These findings may have important implications in studies of other regulated motor proteins that contain two motor domains.

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