Characterization of myosin light-chain kinase from bovine adrenal medulla

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
I M Serventi, C J Coffee

Abstract

Partially purified bovine adrenal medullary myosin light-chain kinase (MLCK) possesses a Stoke's radius of 79 A and a sedimentation coefficient of 3.95 +/- 0.45 S, yielding a native molecular weight of 150,000 +/- 17,000 g/mol and a frictional ratio of 2.24. It catalyzes the phosphorylation of the isolated light chain of skeletal muscle myosin and the light chain of intact adrenal medullary myosin, but not phosphorylase b or histone. The activation of MLCK by calmodulin is specific and dose dependent, yielding a K0.5 value of 9.0 nM; the dose response curve with respect to free Ca2+ is biphasic, exhibiting a stimulatory phase at low free Ca2+ concentrations (K0.5 = 0.17 microM) and an inhibitory phase at higher free Ca2+ concentrations (400-3000 microM). Michaelis-Menten kinetics are observed for ATP, yielding a Km for ATP of 25 microM and a Vmax of 23.2 nmol/min/mg. However, positive cooperative kinetics are observed for the skeletal muscle myosin light chain, yielding a Hill coefficient of 3.57, a K0.5 for light chain of 27 microM and a Vmax of 16.6 nmol/min/mg. A stoichiometry of phosphorylation of approximately 1 mol of phosphate/mol of skeletal muscle myosin light chain was observed. Therefore, adrenal medullary MLCK is si...Continue Reading

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