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Impact of salt concentration and free magnesium on human beta-cardiac myosin reveal important details about the conserved mechanochemical mechanism.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 1 Jun 2026
Ge Jinghua, Ebert Michael R, Bodt Skylar M L, Majumder Satyabrata, Ma Wen, Yengo Christopher M
Abstract excerpt
The myosin ATPase cycle is dramatically accelerated by the presence of actin, while the structural details of actin-activation are still unclear. We found that a dilated cardiomyopathy mutation, E525K, in human beta-cardiac myosin subfragment 1 (S1) enhanced actin-activation of phosphate release and lever arm rotation ∼3-fold. We hypothesized that abolishment of the conserved 484 to 525 salt bridge allows for...
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