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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 88, 期 2, 页码 1387-1402出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.047399
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM026338, GM-26338] Funding Source: Medline
Understanding the mechanism of actin polymerization and its regulation by associated proteins requires an assay to monitor polymerization dynamics and. lament topology simultaneously. The only assay meeting these criteria is total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (Amann and Pollard, 2001; Fujiwara et al., 2002). The. uorescence signal is fourfold stronger with actin labeled on Cys-374 with Oregon green rather than rhodamine. To distinguish growth at barbed and pointed ends we used image drift correction and maximum intensity projections to reveal points where single N-ethylmaleimide inactivated myosins attach. laments to the glass coverslip. We estimated association rates at high actin concentrations and dissociation rates near and below the critical actin concentration. At the barbed end, the association rate constant for Mg-ATPactin is 7.4 muM(-1) s(-1) and the dissociation rate constant is 0.89 s(-1). At the pointed end the association and dissociation rate constants are 0.56 muM(-1) s(-1) and 0.19 s(-1). When vitamin D binding protein sequesters all free monomers, ADP-actin dissociates from barbed ends at 1.4 s(-1) and from pointed ends at 0.16 s(-1) regardless of buffer nucleotide.
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