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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 105, Issue 4, Pages 1140-1145Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709741105
Keywords
actin; trafficking; molecular motor; lever arm; regulation
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- NIAMS NIH HHS [R01 AR034711, R01 AR048526, R01 AR041653, AR34711, AR048526, AR41653] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDCD NIH HHS [DC006103, R01 DC006103] Funding Source: Medline
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Myosin Va is a well known processive motor involved in transport of organelles. A tail-inhibition model is generally accepted for the regulation of myosin Va: inhibited myosin Va is in a folded conformation such that the tail domain interacts with and inhibits myosin Va motor activity. Recent studies indicate that it is the C-terminal globular tail domain (GTD) that directly inhibits the motor activity of myosin Va. In the present study, we identified a conserved acidic residue in the motor domain (Asp-136) and two conserved basic residues in the GTD (Lys-1706 and Lys-1779) as critical residues for this regulation. Alanine mutations of these conserved charged residues not only abolished the inhibition of motor activity by the GTD but also prevented myosin Va from forming a folded conformation. We propose that Asp-136 forms ionic interactions with Lys-1706 and Lys-1779. This assignment locates the GTD-binding site in a pocket of the motor domain, formed by the N-terminal domain, converter, and the calmodulin in the first IQ motif. We propose that binding of the GTD to the motor domain prevents the movement of the converter/lever arm during ATIP hydrolysis cycle, thus inhibiting the chemical cycle of the motor domain.
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