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Module 632 Lecture 8 JCS

Module 632 Lecture 8 JCS. Mechanism of Muscle contraction. MODULE - 632 Lecture 8 Muscle Contraction Lecture outcomes:   At the end of this lecture a student will be aware : 1) of the major sarcomeric proteins and their molecular properties 2) of the structure of the thick filament

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Module 632 Lecture 8 JCS

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  1. Module 632 Lecture 8 JCS Mechanism of Muscle contraction

  2. MODULE - 632 Lecture 8Muscle Contraction • Lecture outcomes: •   At the end of this lecture a student will be aware : • 1)ofthe major sarcomeric proteins and their molecular properties • 2)ofthe structure of the thick filament • 3)of the structure of the thin filament • 4)ofhow the major proteins can be purified/polymerised • 5)ofthe biochemical techniques used to study the actomyosin motor • 6)ofthe crossbridge and its cycle linked to ATP hydrolysis • 7) of the evidence that myosin ‘rocks, swings or rotates’ when attached to actin. • 8)that the crossbridge model can explain the macroscopic properties of contracting sarcomeres • 9) that sarcomere length correlates with specialised muscle function – high-speed or high force.

  3. I A I A I Z Z M Sarcomere – the contractile unit

  4. 0.5mm Acto-myosin in striated muscle : Myosin containing, thick filament 1 mm 0.5 mm Actin containing, thin filaments 0.1 mm Sarcomere acto-myosin “cross-bridges”

  5. Sarcomeric proteins: Thick filament: Myosin – the major protein Titin Myosin-binding protein C M line proteins Thin filament: Actin – the major protein Tropomyosin Troponin complex – TnC, TnI, TnI Nebulin Z-disc: Actin -actinin and many other proteins

  6. The Myosin Molecule

  7. MYOSIN As with all your sarcomeric proteins it is insoluble: • Myosin is extracted from muscle using high salt >500mM KCl • Once extracted if you reduce the salt the myosin forms insoluble filaments. Why? • The myosin molecules (dimers) form side-by-side associations through their rod regions – filaments are bipolar (as are native thick filaments) but have irregular length. • To get soluble fragments for biochemistry purified myosin can be cut with proteases, under different conditions to form: • Heavy meromyosin (HMM) – two heads joined through the S2 coiled coil – and the rod domain – light meromyosin (LMM) • Under different cleavage condition one can release soluble single S1 ‘heads’, now usually referred to as the ‘motor domain’.

  8. S1 HEAD MHC: (N to C terminal) Green – 27K domain; red – 50K domain (upper and lower); blue 20K domain and lever; ELC – yellow; RLC pink Rayment et al., 1993

  9. TITIN: VSM contains titin (mol wt > 1 million). N-terminus embedded in Z-disc; runs along the thin filament in I band, but in I-band transfers to the thick (A) filament; coils around thick filament until its C-terminus; at C-term. has a kinase domain that lies within the M-line. Titin consists of serially repeated globular proteins domains with homology to domains in many other proteins: Ig – immunoglobulin domains (PEVK domains) Fn – fibronectin domains

  10. What does titin do? 1) Titin is a probably a ‘ruler’? Determines layout of sarcomere and thick filament length. 2) Titin is elastic – may serve as a spring to centre thick filament array within the sarcomere. The ‘stretchiness’ (compliance) of titin has been studied by optical traps (see later) and by atomic force microscopes

  11. Myosin binding protein C – binds at one end to thick filament (titin + myosin) and at the other is proposed to attach to the actin: It seems to affect the level of the active state of myosin when activated. M-line proteins – cross-link thick filaments in the M-band; keeps the centered on each other and as a coordinated array. Z-line/disc M-line

  12. Sarcomeric proteins: Thin filament: F-actin core: The barbed end of the F-actin is embedded into the Z-disc – so each Z-disc contains overlapping F-actins from neighbouring half sarcomeres – which are cross-linked by -actinin (and other proteins) The pointed end of F-actin is capped with tropomodulin (CapZ)

  13. F-actin is formed by the polymerisation of actin protein monomers

  14. Each 7 actin-unit (one-half turn) is associated with: • Tropomyosin – -helical coiled-coiled dimer. • End to end overlap  continuous filament coiled around F-actin helix. • Troponin complex – TnC, TnI and TnT • – one complex is associated with each tropomyosin dimer • Nebulin - A single (maybe 2) molecules of runs the length of each thin filament (controls the length of the thin filament?) • - position of nebulin on outside of F-actin core is still not known.

  15. Actin Tropomyosin 7-actin repeat structure (14 - F-actin helix is double) in thin filament Structure repeats (half-turn) every 36.5nm

  16. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO UNDERSTAND HOW MUSCLE CONTRACTS: What is the evidence that crossbridges (myosin bound to actin) are independent force generators? How are the forces/movements generated ? How do the biochemical cycle and the mechanical events correlate?

  17. Sliding Filament theory: HE Huxley – electron micrographs (1953) AF Huxley – interference light microscopy (1954)

  18. Cross-bridges are independent force generators: AF Huxley, Gordon & Julian (1966)

  19. Swinging Cross-bridge hypothesis:HE Huxley, 1969 Micrographs and X-ray diffraction of insect flight muscle Reedy, Holmes and Tregear (1966)

  20. Conclusions from basic fibre experiments: • Sarcomeres contain inter-digitating thick and thin filaments: • Shortening produces force • Shortening of sarcomeres involves the relative sliding of thick and thin filaments • Shortening requires – ATP • The forces produced are correlated with the overlap of the thick and thin filaments • The crossbridges show changes in shape/orientation depending on the nucleotide state – rigor, relaxed, active (disordered)

  21. Filament sliding causes muscle to shorten Light micrograph myofibril Electron micrograph sarcomere Myosin molecules (purple bars) move over the F-actin (turquoise).This movement is powered by ATP.

  22. Biochemical/Biochemical analysis of the crossbridge: • Involved many experiments (they still continue) on: • ‘skinned’ fibres (under different conditions of nucleotide, phosphate, tension, length etc.) • kinetic measurements of isolated proteins – myosin (incl. HMM and S1) and actin - using different biochemical and biophysical assays.

  23. Stopped Flow and Quench Flow

  24. Quenched flow [Pi] Linked assay Time M + ATP  M.ATP  M.ADP.P  M.ADP + P Time course of free and bound phosphate production when a molar excess of ATP is mixed rapidly with S1

  25. Results from biochemical experiments: • ATP binding to myosin - very fast; diffusion controlled (10-6 M-1.s-1) • Acto-myosin dissociates very rapidly upon binding ATP • Hydrolysis of ATP is fast (100 s-1) – release of Pi is slow (<0.001 s-1) • Release of Pi is accelerated by presence of F-actin • Actomyosin ATPase catalytic site activity (turnover) is about 2s-1

  26. Attached Detached ATP Detached Duty ratio: r = (timeattached) / (cycle time) In this example = 75% ADP Pi Attached Biochemical pathway:

  27. The basic contractile mechanism is highly conserved • BUT, you should remember that the rate constants of different biochemical steps can be very different between muscle and myosin types. e.g. • Skeletal muscle myosins are much faster (every biochemical step is faster) than smooth muscle myosins • Molluscan catch muscle has v.v. slow rate of ADP release

  28. In vitro motility - assay HMM or S1 F-actin F-actin stabilised and fluorescently labelled with rhodamine-phalloidin

  29. In vitro motility of F-actin (white filaments) moving on a surface coated with myosin (unseen) in the presence of ATP.

  30. Flipping between two • EM reconstructions of • F-actin decorated with • smooth muscle myosin • with and without the • presence of ATP • Corresponds to transition • of A.M.ADP to A.M • biochemical states. • Only a 20o change.

  31. Molecular model of acto-myosin to show ‘lever arm’ movement. • Model is generated from: • crystal structure of G-actin • modelled into F-actin • crystal structures of the S1 head • high resolution EM pictures of S1- decorated F-actin • atomic (crystal) structures ‘built’ into the ‘mass envelope’ of EM reconstruction of S1+F-actin

  32. Myosin Subfragment-1 5->10 nm 60’ From Rayment et al. (1993) Science261, 50-58

  33. ATP binds cleft opens ATP pocket closes, hydrolysis occurs ATP Myosin detaches from actin Rigor Myosin starts to attach to actin Loss of Pi start of power stroke. Loss of ADP. Weak binding Strong binding The chemo-mechanical cycle :

  34. Cartoon of myosin motor function – a rower

  35. Effects of sarcomere architecture: Shorter sarcomeres give greater contraction speeds Longer sarcomeres produce greater forces

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