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Two skeletal myosin monoclonal antibodies, raised against human skeletal myosin, were used to study the correlation between function, primary and tertiary structure of S-1 prepared from rabbit skeletal myosin. The heavy chain of S-1 is cleaved into three fragments by trypsin—27 kDa, 50 kDa and 20 kDa—aligned in this order from the N-terminus. The epitope of the first antibody was assigned to the N-terminal 1–23 amino acid stretch of S-1, since it reacted with the 27 kDa N-terminal tryptic fragment of S-1 but not with a derivative of the 27 kDa fragment, which lacks the above amino acid stretch. The epitope of the second antibody was assigned to the 3 kDa N-terminal region of the central 50 kDa domain of S-1. This assignment was based on proteolytic and photochemical cleavage of S-1 and on the labelling of its N-terminus by a specific antibody. The antibodies were visualized binding to the myosin head on electron micrographs of rotary-shadowed complexes of antibodies with myosin. Measurements on the micrographs indicated that the distances between the head-tail junction of myosin and the ‘anti-27 K’ and ‘anti-50 K’ epitopes are 14 nm and 17 nm, respectively. Both antibodies have a high affinity to S-1. The affinity of the ‘anti-50 K’ to S-1 decreased upon actin binding, while that of the ‘anti-27 K’ was not affected by binding of S-1 to F-actin. The ‘anti-50 K’ antibody inhibited the K+ (EDTA) and the actin-activated ATPase activity of S-1, while the ‘anti-27 K’ had no effect. The results indicate that either the epitope of the ‘anti-50 K’ is near to the actin or to the ATP-binding sites of S-1, or that there is communication, expressed as propagated conformational changes, between these sites and the epitope.
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Dan-Goor, M., Silberstein, L., Kessel, M. et al. Localization of epitopes and functional effects of two novel monoclonal antibodies against skeletal muscle myosin. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 11, 216–226 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01843575
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