Tropomyosin is a tetramer under physiological salt conditions

Cytoskeleton
Ingrid LassingUno Lindberg

Abstract

Tropomyosin (TM) is a coiled-coil dimer of alpha-helical peptides, which self associates in a head- to-tail fashion along actin polymers, conferring stability to the microfilaments and serving a regulatory function in acto-myosin driven force generation. While the major amount of TM is associated with filaments also in non-muscle cells, it was recently reported that there are isoform-specific pools of TM multimers (not associated with F-actin), which appear to be utilized during actin polymerization and reformed during depolymerization. To determine the size of these multimers, skeletal muscle TM was studied under different salt conditions using gel-filtration and sucrose gradient sedimentation, and compared with purified non-muscle TM 1 and 5, as well as with TM present in non-muscle cell extracts and skeletal muscle TM added to such extracts. Under physiological salt conditions TM appears as a single homogenous peak with the Stokes radius 8.2 nm and the molecular weight (mw) 130,000. The corresponding values for TM 5 are 7.7 nm and 104,000, respectively. This equals four peptides, implying that native TM is a tetramer in physiological salt. It is therefore concluded that the TM multimers are tetramers.

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