Regulation of alpha-helical coiled-coil dimerization in chicken skeletal muscle light meromyosin.
J Biol Chem
; 274(20): 13847-53, 1999 May 14.
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ABSTRACT
The dimerization specificity of the light meromyosin (LMM) domain of chicken neonatal and adult myosin isoforms was analyzed by metal chelation chromatography. Our results show that neonatal and adult LMMs associate preferentially, although not exclusively, as homodimeric coiled-coils. Using chimeric LMM constructs combining neonatal and adult sequences, we observed that a stretch of 183 amino acids of sequence identity at the N terminus of the LMM was sufficient to allow the adult LMM to dimerize in a non-selective manner. In contrast, sequence identity in the remaining C-terminal 465 amino acids had only a modest effect on the dimerization selectivity of the adult isoform. Sequence identity at the N terminus also promoted dimerization of the neonatal LMM to a greater degree than sequence identity at the C terminus. However, the N terminus had only a partial effect on the dimerization specificity of the neonatal sequence, and residues distributed throughout the LMM were capable of affecting dimerization selectivity of this isoform. These results indicated that dimerization preference of the neonatal and adult isoforms was affected to a different extent by sequence identity at a given region of the LMM.
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01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Subfragmentos de Miosina
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Músculo Esquelético
Límite:
Animals
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Biol Chem
Año:
1999
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos