J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 260, Issue 28, 15146-15155, 12, 1985
Kinetic mechanism of 1-N6-etheno-2-aza-ATP hydrolysis by bovine ventricular myosin subfragment 1 and actomyosin subfragment 1. The nucleotide binding steps
SJ Smith and HD White
The large change in fluorescence emission of 1-N6-etheno-2-aza-ATP
(epsilon-aza-ATP) has been used to investigate the kinetic mechanism of
etheno-aza nucleotide binding to bovine cardiac myosin subfragment 1
(myosin-S1) and actomyosin subfragment 1 (actomyosin-S1). The time course
of nucleotide fluorescence enhancement observed during epsilon- aza-ATP
hydrolysis is qualitatively similar to the time course of tryptophan
fluorescence enhancement observed during ATP hydrolysis. In single turnover
experiments, the nucleotide fluorescence rapidly increases to a maximum
level, then decreases with a rate constant of 0.045 s-1 to a final level,
which is about 30% of the maximal enhancement; a similar fluorescence
enhancement is obtained by adding epsilon-aza-ADP to cardiac myosin-S1 or
actomyosin-S1 under the same conditions (100 mM KCl, 10 mM
4-morpholinepropanesulfonic acid, 5 mM MgCl2, 0.1 mM dithiothreitol, pH
7.0, 15 degrees C). The kinetic data are consistent with a mechanism in
which there are two sequential (acto)myosin-S1 nucleotide complexes with
enhanced nucleotide fluorescence following epsilon-aza-ATP binding. The
apparent second order rate constants of epsilon-aza-ATP binding to cardiac
myosin subfragment 1 and actomyosin subfragment 1 are 2-12 times slower
than those for ATP. Actin increases the rate of epsilon-aza-ADP
dissociation from bovine cardiac myosin-S1 from 1.9 to 110 s-1 at 15
degrees C which can be compared to 0.3 and 65 s-1 for ADP dissociation
under similar conditions. Although there are quantitative differences
between the rate and equilibrium constants of epsilon-aza- and adenosine
nucleotides to cardiac actomyosin-S1 and myosin-S1, the basic features of
the nucleotide binding steps of the mechanism are unchanged.