3D structure of relaxed fish muscle myosin filaments by single particle analysis

被引:21
作者
Al-Khayat, Hind A. [1 ]
Morris, Edward P.
Kensler, Robert W.
Squire, John M.
机构
[1] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Div Biomed Sci, Biol Struct & Funct Sect, London SW7 2AZ, England
[2] Univ Puerto Rico, Sch Med, Dept Anat, San Juan, PR 00936 USA
基金
英国惠康基金;
关键词
myosin filaments; single particle analysis; 3D reconstruction; fish muscle; MyBP-C;
D O I
10.1016/j.jsb.2006.01.014
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
To understand the structural changes involved in the force-producing myosin cross-bridge cycle in vertebrate muscle it is necessary to know the arrangement and conformation of the myosin heads at the start of the cycle (i.e. the relaxed state). Myosin filaments isolated from goldfish muscle under relaxing conditions and viewed in negative stain by electron microscopy (EM) were divided into segments and subjected to three-dimensional (313) single particle analysis without imposing helical symmetry. This allowed the known systematic departure from helicity characteristic of vertebrate striated muscle myosin filaments to be preserved and visualised. The resulting 3D reconstruction reveals details to about 55 angstrom resolution of the myosin head density distribution in the three non-equivalent head 'crowns' in the 429 angstrom myosin filament repeat. The analysis maintained the well-documented axial perturbations of the myosin head crowns and revealed substantial azimuthal perturbations between crowns with relatively little radial perturbation. Azimuthal rotations between crowns were approximately 60 degrees, 60 degrees and 0 degrees, rather than the regular 40 degrees characteristic of an unperturbed helix. The new density map correlates quite well with the head conformations analysed in other EM studies and in the relaxed fish muscle myosin filament structure modelled from X-ray fibre diffraction data. The reconstruction provides information on the polarity of the myosin head array in the A-band, important in understanding the geometry of the myosin head interaction with actin during the cross-bridge cycle, and supports a number of conclusions previously inferred by other methods. The observed azimuthal head perturbations are consistent with the X-ray modelling results from intact muscle, indicating that the observed perturbations are an intrinsic property of the myosin filaments and are not induced by the proximity of actin filaments in the muscle A-band lattice. Comparison of the axial density profile derived in this study with the axial density profile of the X-ray model of the fish myosin filaments which was restricted to contributions from the myosin heads allows the identification of a non-myosin density peak associated with the azimuthally perturbed head crown which can be interpreted as a possible location for C-protein or X-protein (MyBP-C or -X). This position for C-protein is also consistent with the C-zone interference function deduced from previous analysis of the meridional X-ray pattern from frog muscle. It appears that, along with other functions, C-(X-) protein may have the role of slewing the heads of one crown so that they do not clash with the neighbouring actin filaments, but are readily available to interact with actin when the muscle is activated. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:202 / 217
页数:16
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