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First published online 2 September 2003
doi: 10.1242/jcs.00709

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Mutations in the motor domain modulate myosin activity and myofibril organization

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
² Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA

^* Author for correspondence (e-mail: daw{at}pleiad.umdnj.edu)

Accepted 11 June 2003

We have investigated the functional impact on cardiac myofibril organization and myosin motor activity of point mutations associated with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathies (FHC). Embryonic chicken cardiomyocytes were transfected with vectors encoding green fluorescent protein (GFP) fused to a striated muscle myosin heavy chain (GFP-myosin). Within 24 hours of transfection, the GFP-myosin is found co-assembled with the endogenous myosin in striated myofibrils. The wild-type GFP-myosin had no effect on the organization of the contractile cytoskeleton of the cardiomyocytes. However, expression of myosin with the R403Q FHC mutation resulted in a small but significant decrease in myofibril organization, and the R453C and G584R mutations caused a more dramatic increase in myofibril disarray. The embryonic cardiomyocytes beat spontaneously in culture and this was not affected by expression of the wild-type or mutant GFP-myosin. For the biochemical analysis of myosin motor activity, replication defective adenovirus was used to express the wild-type and mutant GFP-myosin in C2C12 myotubes. The R403Q mutation enhanced actin filament velocity but had no effect on the myosin duty ratio. The R453C and G584R mutations impaired actin filament movement and both increased the duty ratio. The effects of these mutations on myosin motor activity correlate with changes in myofibril organization of live cardiomyocytes. Thus, mutations associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathies that alter myosin motor activity can also impair myofibril organization.

Key words: Myosin, Myofibril, Hypertrophic, Cardiomyopathy, GFP

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