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In Drosophila myosin isoforms, there is no correlation between the detachment rate and actin filament velocity, and the converter domain does not significantly influence detachment kinetics.
In Drosophila muscle myosin isoforms, actin filament velocity is not correlated with detachment rate, suggesting that attachment rate or completion of the power stroke may define velocity instead.
May not apply to mammalian myosins; leaves open primary determinants of filament velocity in vertebrate isoforms.
The molecular mechanism of myosin function was addressed by measuring transient kinetic parameters of naturally occurring and chimeric Drosophila muscle myosin isoforms. We assessed the native embryonic isoform, the native indirect flight muscle isoform, and two chimeric isoforms containing converter domains exchanged between the indirect flight muscle and embryonic isoforms. Myosin was purified from the indirect flight muscles of transgenic flies, and S1 was produced by alpha-chymotryptic digestion. Previous studies in vertebrate and scallop myosins have shown a correlation between actin filament velocity in motility assays and cross-bridge detachment rate, specifically the rate of ADP release. In contrast, our study showed no correlation between the detachment rate and actin filament velocity in Drosophila myosin isoforms and further that the converter domain does not significantly influence the biochemical kinetics governing the detachment of myosin from actin. We suggest that evolutionary pressure on a single muscle myosin gene may maintain a fast detachment rate in all isoforms. As a result, the attachment rate and completion of the power stroke or the equilibrium between actin.myosin.ADP states may define actin filament velocity for these myosin isoforms.
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Miller et al. (2003) studied this question. Chimeric Drosophila muscle myosin isoforms vs. Native embryonic and indirect flight muscle isoforms was evaluated on Correlation between detachment rate and actin filament velocity. In Drosophila myosin isoforms, there is no correlation between the detachment rate and actin filament velocity, and the converter domain does not significantly influence detachment kinetics.
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