Unfair competition governs the interaction of pCPI-17 with myosin phosphatase (PP1-MYPT1)

  1. Joshua J Filter
  2. Byron C Williams
  3. Masumi Eto
  4. David Shalloway
  5. Michael L Goldberg  Is a corresponding author
  1. Cornell University, United States
  2. Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, United States

Abstract

The small phosphoprotein pCPI-17 inhibits myosin light chain phosphatase (MLCP). Current models postulate that during muscle relaxation, phosphatases other than MLCP dephosphorylate and inactivate pCPI-17 to restore MLCP activity. We show here that such hypotheses are insufficient to account for the observed rapidity of pCPI-17 inactivation in mammalian smooth muscles. Instead, MCLP itself is the critical enzyme for pCPI-17 dephosphorylation. We call the mutual sequestration mechanism through which pCPI-17 and MLCP interact inhibition by unfair competition: MLCP protects pCPI-17 from other phosphatases, while pCPI-17 blocks other substrates from MLCP's active site. MLCP dephosphorylates pCPI-17 at a slow rate that is nonetheless both sufficient and necessary to explain the speed of pCPI-17 dephosphorylation and the consequent MLCP activation during muscle relaxation.

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  1. Joshua J Filter

    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
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  2. Byron C Williams

    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
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  3. Masumi Eto

    Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States
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  4. David Shalloway

    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
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  5. Michael L Goldberg

    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
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NIH Office of the Director (GM048430)

  • Michael L Goldberg

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  1. Joshua J Filter
  2. Byron C Williams
  3. Masumi Eto
  4. David Shalloway
  5. Michael L Goldberg
(2017)
Unfair competition governs the interaction of pCPI-17 with myosin phosphatase (PP1-MYPT1)
eLife 6:e24665.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24665

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