Abstract
Enzymatic characteristics of heavy meromyosin (HMM) were investigated by measuring beta-naphthyl triphosphate (beta-NapP3) hydrolysis in the presence and absence of F-actin. beta-NapP3 hydrolysis by HMM was inactivated by F-actin in the presence of Mg ions; in the presence of sufficient F-actin, the activity was about one-half of that in the absence of F-actin. In the presence of Ca ions the activity disappeared almost completely on addition of sufficient F-actin. Two different values of the Michaelis constant (Km) were obtained from the data for beta-NapP3 hydrolysis by HMM in the presence of Mg ions; one of them vanished in the presence of sufficient F-actin, and only one Km value was obtained in the presence of Ca ions. These results suggest the existence of two distinct enzymatic sites in HMM, one inactivated by F-actin in the presence of Mg or Ca ions, the other inactive in the presence of Ca ions but active in the presence of Mg ions and not influenced by F-actin. Use of subfragment-1(A1) (S-1(A1)) and S-1(A2) instead of HMM confirmed that these enzymatic characteristics are not due to a difference in the alkali light chains on myosin heads.
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