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Comparative analysis of widely used methods to remove nonfunctional myosin heads for the in vitro motility assay
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- Rahman, Mohammad A. (author)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för kemi och biomedicin (KOB)
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- Salhotra, Aseem (author)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för kemi och biomedicin (KOB),Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Månsson, Alf (author)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för kemi och biomedicin (KOB)
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- 2019-03-08
- 2018
- English.
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In: Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. - : Springer. - 0142-4319 .- 1573-2657. ; 39:5-6, s. 175-187
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- The in vitro motility assay allows studies of muscle contraction through observation of actin filament propulsion by surface-adsorbed myosin motors or motor fragments isolated from muscle. A possible problem is that motility may be compromised by nonfunctional, "dead", motors, obtained in the isolation process. Here we investigate the effects on motile function of two approaches designed to eliminate the effects of these dead motors. We first tested the removal of heavy meromyosin (HMM) molecules with ATP-insensitive "dead" heads by pelleting them with actin filaments, using ultracentrifugation in the presence of 1 mM MgATP ("affinity purification"). Alternatively we incubated motility assay flow cells, after HMM surface adsorption, with non-fluorescent "blocking actin" (1 µM) to block the dead heads. Both affinity purification and use of blocking actin increased the fraction of motile filaments compared to control conditions. However, affinity purification significantly reduced the actin sliding speed in five out of seven experiments on silanized surfaces and in one out of four experiments on nitrocellulose surfaces. Similar effects on velocity were not observed with the use of blocking actin. However, a reduced speed was also seen (without affinity purification) if HMM or myosin subfragment 1 was mixed with 1 mM MgATP before and during surface adsorption. We conclude that affinity purification can produce unexpected effects that may complicate the interpretation of in vitro motility assays and other experiments with surface adsorbed HMM, e.g. single molecule mechanics experiments. The presence of MgATP during incubation with myosin motor fragments is critical for the complicating effects.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Cellbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Cell Biology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Biofysik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Biophysics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Affinity purification
- Blocking actin
- Cross-bridge cycle
- In vitro motility assay
- Molecular motor
- Myosin
- Cell and Organism Biology
- Cell- och organismbiologi
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