High-resolution structures of the actomyosin-V complex in three nucleotide states provide insights into the force generation mechanism

  1. Sabrina Pospich
  2. H Lee Sweeney
  3. Anne Houdusse
  4. Stefan Raunser  Is a corresponding author
  1. Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
  2. University of Florida, United States
  3. Institut Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Abstract

The molecular motor myosin undergoes a series of major structural transitions during its force-producing motor cycle. The underlying mechanism and its coupling to ATP hydrolysis and actin binding is only partially understood, mostly due to sparse structural data on actin-bound states of myosin. Here, we report 26 high-resolution cryo-EM structures of the actomyosin-V complex in the strong-ADP, rigor, and a previously unseen post-rigor transition state that binds the ATP analog AppNHp. The structures reveal a high flexibility of myosin in each state and provide valuable insights into the structural transitions of myosin-V upon ADP release and binding of AppNHp, as well as the actomyosin interface. In addition, they show how myosin is able to specifically alter the structure of F-actin.

Data availability

The atomic models and cryo-EM maps are available in the PDB (Burley et al., 2018) and EMDB databases (Lawson et al., 2011), under following accession numbers: aged PHD-stabilized actomyosin-V in the strong-ADP state: 7PM5, EMD-13521 (central 1er), 7PM6, EMD-13522 (central 3er/2er), 7PM7, EMD-13523 (class 2), 7PM8, EMD-13524 (class 3), 7PM9, EMD-13525 (class 4), 7PMA, EMD-13526 (class 5), 7PMB, EMD-13527 (class 6), 7PMC, EMD-13528 (class 7) ; aged PHD-stabilized actomyosin-V in the rigor state: 7PLT, EMD-13501 (central 1er), 7PLU, EMD-13502 (central 3er/2er), 7PLV, EMD-13503 (class 1), 7PLW, EMD-13504 (class 3) and 7PLX, EMD-13505 (class 4); aged PHD-stabilized actomyosin-V in the PRT state: 7PMD, EMD-13529 (central 1er), 7PME, EMD-13530 (central 3er/2er), 7PMF, EMD-13531 (class 1), 7PMG, EMD-13532 (class 3), 7PMH, EMD-13533 (class 4), 7PMI, EMD-13535 (class 5), 7PMJ, EMD-13536 (class 6), 7PML, EMD-13538 (class 8); young JASP-stabilized actomyosin-V in the rigor state: 7PLY, EMD-13506 (central 1er), 7PLZ, EMD-13507 (central 3er/2er), 7PM0, EMD-13508 (class 1), 7PM1, EMD-13509 (class 2), 7PM2, EMD-13510 (class 4); and young JASP-stabilized F-actin: 7PM3, EMD-13511. The datasets generated during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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  1. Sabrina Pospich

    Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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  2. H Lee Sweeney

    Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the Myology Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States
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  3. Anne Houdusse

    Structural Motility, Institut Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
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  4. Stefan Raunser

    Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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    stefan.raunser@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de
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Funding

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

  • Stefan Raunser

European Commission (ERC-2019-SyG,856118)

  • Stefan Raunser

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-17-CE11-0029-01)

  • Anne Houdusse

National Institutes of Health (R01-DC009100)

  • H Lee Sweeney

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

  • Anne Houdusse

Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

  • Sabrina Pospich

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2021, Pospich et al.

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  1. Sabrina Pospich
  2. H Lee Sweeney
  3. Anne Houdusse
  4. Stefan Raunser
(2021)
High-resolution structures of the actomyosin-V complex in three nucleotide states provide insights into the force generation mechanism
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