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Biochim. Biophys. Acta · Sep 1983
The effect of serum vitamin D-binding protein on polymerization and depolymerization of actin is similar to the effect of profilin on actin.
- M Coué, J Constans, M Viau, and A Olomucki.
- Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1983 Sep 13; 759 (3): 137-45.
AbstractThe mechanism of the interaction between two genetically determined serum vitamin D-binding protein forms and the muscle skeletal actin was investigated. Vitamin D-binding protein was isolated in a good yield from human serum, using immunoaffinity chromatography. 16 mg of pure vitamin D-binding protein were obtained from 100 ml of serum. The interaction between purified vitamin D-binding protein and skeletal muscle actin was studied by viscosity, delta A (232 nm) measurements and by electron microscopy. The effect of vitamin D-binding protein on actin polymerization is characterized by the decrease of the nucleation and elongation rates and by the decrease of the final concentration of polymerized actin in the steady state. The depolymerizing effect is not the result of direct action on vitamin D-binding protein on F-actin but rather of an increased concentration of the complex of the former protein with G-actin. The characteristics of the vitamin D-binding protein and profilin interactions with actin are similar. Both proteins seem to react only with G-actin.
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