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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 280, Issue 4, Pages 2613-2619Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M408553200
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Troponin (Tn) plays the key roles in the regulation of striated muscle contraction. Tn consists of three sub-units (TnT, TnC, and TnI). In combination with the stopped-flow method, fluorescence resonance energy transfer between probes attached to Cys-60 or Cys-250 of TnT and Cys-374 of actin was measured to determine the rates of switching movement of the troponin tail domain (Cys-60) and of the TnT-TnI coiled-coil C terminus (Cys-250) between three states (relaxed, closed, and open) of the thin filament. When the free Ca2+ concentration was rapidly changed, these domains moved with rates of similar to450 and similar to85 s(-1) at pH 7.0 on Ca2+ up and down, respectively. When myosin subfragment 1 (S1) was dissociated from thin filaments by rapid mixing with ATP, these domains moved with a single rate constant of similar to400 s(-1) in the presence and absence of Ca2+. The light scattering measurements showed that ATP-induced S1 dissociation occurred with a rate constant >800 s(-1). When S1 was rapidly mixed with the thin filament, these domains moved with almost the same or slightly faster rates than those of S1 binding measured by light scattering. In most but not all aspects, the rates of movement of the troponin tail domain and of the TnT-TnI coiled-coil C terminus were very similar to those of certain TnI sites (N terminus, Cys-133, and C terminus) previously characterized (Shitaka, Y., Kimura, C., Iio, T., and Miki, M. (2004) Biochemistry 43, 10739-10747), suggesting that a series of conformational changes in the Tn complex during switching on or off process occurs synchronously.
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