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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/1997//695 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 139, Number 3, , 1997 695-707


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Tomographic Three-dimensional Reconstruction of Insect Flight Muscle Partially Relaxed by AMPPNP and Ethylene Glycol



Holger Schmitz*, Mary C. Reedy{ddagger}, Michael K. Reedy{ddagger}, Richard T. Tregear§, and Kenneth A. Taylor*

* Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4380; {ddagger} Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710; and § MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, United Kingdom

Rigor insect flight muscle (IFM) can be relaxed without ATP by increasing ethylene glycol concentration in the presence of adenosine 5'-[β'{gamma}- imido]triphosphate (AMPPNP). Fibers poised at a critical glycol concentration retain rigor stiffness but support no sustained tension ("glycol-stiff state"). This suggests that many crossbridges are weakly attached to actin, possibly at the beginning of the power stroke. Unaveraged three-dimensional tomograms of "glycol-stiff" sarcomeres show crossbridges large enough to contain only a single myosin head, originating from dense collars every 14.5 nm. Crossbridges with an average 90° axial angle contact actin midway between troponin subunits, which identifies the actin azimuth in each 38.7-nm period, in the same region as the actin target zone of the 45° angled rigor lead bridges. These 90° "target zone" bridges originate from the thick filament and approach actin at azimuthal angles similar to rigor lead bridges. Another class of glycol-PNP crossbridge binds outside the rigor actin target zone. These "nontarget zone" bridges display irregular forms and vary widely in axial and azimuthal attachment angles. Fitting the acto-myosin subfragment 1 atomic structure into the tomogram reveals that 90° target zone bridges share with rigor a similar contact interface with actin, while nontarget crossbridges have variable contact interfaces. This suggests that target zone bridges interact specifically with actin, while nontarget zone bridges may not. Target zone bridges constitute only ~25% of the myosin heads, implying that both specific and nonspecific attachments contribute to the high stiffness. The 90° target zone bridges may represent a preforce attachment that produces force by rotation of the motor domain over actin, possibly independent of the regulatory domain movements.


Abbreviations used in this paper: 2-D and 3-D, two- and three-dimensional; AMPPNP, adenosine 5'-[β'{gamma}-imido]triphosphate; aqueous-PNP, aqueous solution of AMPPNP (without ethylene glycol); glycol-PNP, mixtures of ethylene glycol and AMPPNP; IFM, insect flight muscle; S1, myosin subfragment 1.

The PDS 1010M densitometer was purchased with funds from National Science Foundation grant PCM-8400167. This work was also supported by DFG grant Schm 1035/1 (H. Schmitz) and National Institutes of Health grants GM-30598 (K.A. Taylor) and AR-14317 (M.K. Reedy).

Address all correspondence to Kenneth A. Taylor, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380. Tel.: (850) 644-3357. Fax: (850) 561-1406. E-mail: taylor{at}bio.fsu.edu



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