Purealin, a novel activator of skeletal muscle actomyosin ATPase and myosin EDTA‐ATPase that enhanced the superprecipitation of actomyosin
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- 1 August 1987
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 167 (1), 1-6
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1987.tb13296.x
Abstract
1 Purealin, a novel bioactive principle of a sea sponge Psammaplysilla purea, activated the superprecipitation of myosin B (natural actomyosin) from rabbit skeletal muscle. The maximum change in the turbidity increased with increasing purealin concentrations and was three times the control value in the presence of 50 μM purealin. 2 The ATPase activity of myosin B was also elevated to 160% of the control value by 10 μM purealin. On the other hand, purealin inhibited the myosin ATPase in the presence of 10 mM CaCl2 and 0.5 M KCl (Ca2+-ATPase), and the concentration for the half inhibition was 4 μM. 3 On the other hand, purealin activated the myosin ATPase in the presence of 5 mM EDTA and 0.5 M KCl (EDTA-ATPase). The maximum activation by 10 μM purealin was 160% of the control value. 4 Furthermore, similar results concerning the modification of ATPase activities by purealin were obtained in myosin subfragment-1 instead of myosin. 5 These results suggest that purealin activates the superprecipitation of myosin B by affecting the myosin heads directly. It is also an interesting observation that there is a correlation between the activities of the myosin EDTA-ATPase and actomyosin ATPase of myosin B.Keywords
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