Matching Mechanics and Energetics of Muscle Contraction Suggests Unconventional Chemomechanical Coupling during the Actin-Myosin Interaction

The mechanical performances of the vertebrate skeletal muscle during isometric and isotonic contractions are interfaced with the corresponding energy consumptions to define the coupling between mechanical and biochemical steps in the myosin-actin energy transduction cycle. The analysis is extended t...

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Published in:	International journal of molecular sciences 2023-08, Vol.24 (15), p.12324
Main Authors:	Pertici, Irene, Bongini, Lorenzo, Caremani, Marco, Reconditi, Massimo, Linari, Marco, Piazzesi, Gabriella, Lombardi, Vincenzo, Bianco, Pasquale
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Actin Analysis chemomechanical coupling efficiency of muscle contraction Hill, Archibald V Hydrolysis muscle energetics Muscle proteins Muscles Myosin myosin–actin interaction sarcomere-like nanomachine skeletal muscle
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Summary:	The mechanical performances of the vertebrate skeletal muscle during isometric and isotonic contractions are interfaced with the corresponding energy consumptions to define the coupling between mechanical and biochemical steps in the myosin-actin energy transduction cycle. The analysis is extended to a simplified synthetic nanomachine in which eight HMM molecules purified from fast mammalian skeletal muscle are brought to interact with an actin filament in the presence of 2 mM ATP, to assess the emergent properties of a minimum number of motors working in ensemble without the effects of both the higher hierarchical levels of striated muscle organization and other sarcomeric, regulatory and cytoskeleton proteins. A three-state model of myosin-actin interaction is able to predict the known relationships between energetics and transient and steady-state mechanical properties of fast skeletal muscle either in vivo or in vitro only under the assumption that during shortening a myosin motor can interact with two actin sites during one ATP hydrolysis cycle. Implementation of the molecular details of the model should be achieved by exploiting kinetic and structural constraints present in the transients elicited by stepwise perturbations in length or force superimposed on the isometric contraction.
ISSN:	1422-0067 1661-6596 1422-0067