Abstract
The actin is the essential unit protein of cytoskeleton and muscle sarcomeres. The continuous management of filaments is the key machinery of eukaryotic cytoskeletal plasticity which based on the different complexes with divalent cations (Ca2+ or Mg2+) and nucleotides (ATP, ADP). Any structural modification of nucleotide-binding sites in G actin can bind ATP or ADP under different cation conditions and can initialize the remodelling of the cleft and change the stiffness of two main domains. The evolutionary important nucleotide-binding cleft as a bridge between the two domains needs more investigation to can express its importance in the development of actin functions. The cyclophosphamide (CP) is a cytostatic drug applied in chemotherapy it can alkylate the long residues in the ATP binding sites thus change the structure of the binding cleft. Our previous study explained that the actin filaments show less sensitivity to the CP treatment than monomers. Here we investigate the CP dose-response effect on the thermodynamic stability of actin monomers and polymers in the presence of Ca2+ or Mg2+ to know the minimum effective concentration for the interpretation of any relevant dosage at level of tissues. The previously expressed “titled state” EM model of filamentous actin based on the same structural change of monomers as we found here where the domains react to any modification with taking apart sd4 from sd2 results in a more exposed nucleotide-binding cleft.
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Introduction
The eukaryotic cytoskeletal system is a dynamical scaffold based on different proteins [1]. The actin is the essential unit protein of cytoskeleton and muscle sarcomeres [2,3,4]. Different states of forming filaments (F actin) from monomeric actin (G actin) are implicated in cell motility, transport processes and cell division [5,6,7,8,9,10,11]. The management of actin filaments is the key machinery of eukaryotic cytoskeletal plasticity which based on the different complexes with divalent cations (Ca2+ or Mg2+) and nucleotides (ATP, ADP) [12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]. Cation and nucleotide-binding regulates the structural stability of actin monomers but the form that is bound to ATP is more frequent in cells when actin is in monomer state [21, 22]. With the actin polymerization the ATP is hydrolysing to ADP [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22]. Any structural modification of nucleotide-binding cleft in G actin which can bind ATP or ADP under different cation conditions can initialize the remodelling of the cleft and change the stability of two main domains [23,24,25]. Nearby of filaments Mg2+ and Ca2+ conditions can rearrange the ATP binding of motor proteins and actin maintaining proteins [26, 27]. Previous studies expressed the importance of activation energy according to the thermal stability of domains that enhanced kinetics of domains belongs to a more advantageous case of protein structural plasticity and shows significant reaction to different cations and nucleotides [28,29,30,31].
The cyclophosphamide (CP) is a cytostatic drug applied in chemotherapy [32,33,34,35,36,37,38]. Previous studies has been shown with deconvolution of collected DSC scan data that there is a possible effect in Guinea pig and rabbit muscle fibres on the level of actin or myosin [38,39,40,41,42]. The ligand binding on actin filaments is usually cooperative and enhances allosteric conformational change along the filament [43,44,45,46,47]. Jasplakinolide and phalloidine toxins are binding to actin and induce concentration-dependent cooperative effect on actin [48, 49]. Previous studies shown [39, 40, 50] that muscle filament can be changed directly by the CP treatment [51]. The evolutionary important nucleotide-binding site as a bridge between the two domains links the structural integrity to the development of actin functions together [51,53,54,55,56]. This linker between the two major domains is based on the chain at residue Lys336 and the helix Gln137-Ser145 which plays the role as an axis and forms two clefts between the domains and due to the fact that Gln137 is a nucleotide-binding residue it can have effect on the linker with a modified interdomain flexibility [57, 58]. The upper cleft binds nucleotide and divalent cations which work together to provide another important linkage between domains. The structure of actin can be divided into four subdomains (sd1-4). The lower cleft between sd1 and sd3 contains mainly hydrophobic residues Tyr143, Ala144, Gly146, Thr148, Gly168, Ile341, Ile345, Leu346, Leu349, Thr351, and Met355. The Ser14 loop in sd1 and the loop containing Asp157 in sd3 are equivalent and binding the phosphates of the nucleotide [59]. Sd1 and sd3 can be described as a rigid core of the monomer [60]. Divalent cation binding residues (sd1: Glu361, Trp356, Gln354; sd2: Glu57, Arg62; sd3: Glu167, Gln263, Ser265, Asp286, Asp288; sd4: Ser199, Thr201, Glu205) are implicated in structural dynamics of subdomains [61]. The transition of G- to F-actin is propeller-like rotation of sd1-2 with flattening to the sd3-4 around an axis roughly at right angle to the helix axis [62]. On the subdomains, magnesium ions are able to bind in the same position as calcium thus by the higher number of Mg2+ coordinated residues increases the stiffness of actin filaments and results a buried structure and lower responsibility of sd3-4 [61]. The stiffness of the filaments depends on the Ca2+ or Mg2+ binding to a high-affinity site on sd2 (Gly36-Glu57) [58]. Nucleotide-dependent conformational changes with chain of Ser14 and the loop carrying His73 reacting to the state of the bound nucleotide [62]. However, sd4 is more flexible by the helix with residues of 223–230 and the loop with residues of 241–247 than sd2. With high number of helices and loops in sd2 can be provided an increased dynamical response to influences [60]. All the residues which are implicated in nucleotide-binding are well charged and keep on the thermal stability of the cleft thus balancing the structural dynamics of actin monomers. Complexes of nucleotides and cations make a bridge between sd1 and sd3 to form a stiff core with two flexible extensions as sd2 and sd4. Structural stiffness of sd2 and sd4 linked to the nucleotide binding core but mainly depends on did they bind Ca2+ or Mg2+ [61]. The mutation of residues or alkylation by CP in the binding cleft can change the structure of actin monomers with the protection and cover of ATP binding at methylated His73 or mutated His73Ala, Arg177Asp, Ser14Cys or Ser14Cys/Asp157Ala can lack ATP binding and enhances the nucleotide exchange [63,64,65,66,67]. As we have investigated, actin monomers are more sensitive to the CP treatment than filaments [57]. The heat stability of actin monomers and filaments as a response to the applied CP dose is not studied yet. Here we investigate the heat stability response of actin to increases concentration of CP in the presence of Ca2+ or Mg2+ to know the minimum effective concentration to can interpret any relevant dosage at level of tissues.
Materials and methods
Actin preparation from rabbit skeletal muscle
G and F-actin with Ca2+ or Mg2+ cations were prepared in the usual way from acetone powder of rabbit skeletal muscle as described earlier by Spudich and Watt [44], and stored in MOPS-buffer (2 mM MOPS, 0.2 mM ATP, 0.1 mM CaCl2, 0.1 mM β-mercaptoethanol, pH 7.4). Actin concentration was determined from the absorption spectra (Jasco V-550 spectrophotometer, as the average concentration by ε = 1.11 mL mg−1cm at 280 nm and ε = 0.63 mL mg −1cm at 290 nm). We applied 2 mM EGTA then 2 mM MgCl2 treatment for exchange calcium to magnesium on 2 mg mL−1 actin monomers, this way we remained close to the physiological concentration of actin. Actin polymerization process was initialized by addition of 100 mM KCl follow the same protocol as in our previous study [51, 57].
Cyclophosphamide treatment
In our, in vitro measurements, the applied dosage of cyclophosphamide (CP) was the same as the human dosage (150 mg kg−1 b.m.) during chemotherapeutic treatments [7,8,9,10]. The average actin content of skeletal muscle is roughly 10% of the actual muscle mass [44] thus the average mass of Guinea pig gastrocnemius muscle (from our previous study [8]) divided by 10 then by the mass of CP passed in the muscle [150 mg kg−1 × (mgastrocnemius/mbody)]. The single-dose clearance with the circulation system depends on the total volume of blood and the adsorption rate between the plasma and the cells. Supposedly the adsorption rate is slower than the heart rate, so we can focus on only the blood circulation caused dilution and distribution in the whole body results that the actin to CP ratio can be use as 2000/3 (it means 2 mg actin to 3 µg CP) [51, 57]. However, as we used actin from rabbit skeletal muscle we can assume that the distribution of CP in rabbit skeletal muscle should be the same as in Guinea pig skeletal muscle. To achieve a more pronounced effect we carried out our experiments with 1, 3, 5 times conventional dose, 3 µg mL−1, 9 µg mL−1, 15 µg mL−1 of CP, respectively, to treat actin followed by incubation at room temperature for 1 h (in case of model experiment the animal underwent to a real, long-lasting chemotherapeutic protocol as described in [38,39,40, 50]).
DSC measurements
The actin samples with 2 mg mL−1 concentration were freshly prepared before all measurements. The analysis was made by a SETARAM Micro-DSCII calorimeter between 0 and 100 °C with heating rate of 0.3 K min−1. Conventional Hastelloy batch vessels (Vmax = 1 mL) were used for the experiment to investigate denaturation with 950 µL sample volume on average. Samples’ masses were between 920 and 970 mgs. MOPS buffer was used as a reference. The reference and sample vessels were equilibrated with a precision of ± 0.1 mg; this way we did not need to do any correction between vessels’ heat capacity. With the help of a two-point SETARAM peak integration setting, calorimetric enthalpy was calculated from the area under the heat absorption curve, and then, the results [denaturation or melting temperature (Tm) and calorimetric enthalpy (ΔHcal) data of samples] were compared. This method is identical to the protocol as we applied in our previous study [51, 57].
Results
Figure 1 shows the thermal denaturation curves of G or F-actin in the presence of 2 mM CaCl2 or 2 mM MgCl2 were measured under different CP concentrations (0 µg mL−1—black line, 3 µg mL−1—red line, 9 µg mL−1—blue line, 15 µg mL−1—green line). On the basis of accurate analysis 3 µg mL−1 CP already modified the heat-response curves of actin-related to a structural change of distinct subdomains which is in a good agreement with our previous results [51]. The DSC scan of actin seems as the superposed response of four subdomains which was decayed to the components in the presence of CP. The Ca2+ or Mg2+ bound G or F-actin forms provide different sensitivity to CP treatment. In case of filaments, heat response curves show less number of components than in case of monomeric actin.
Figure 2 shows the results after the deconvolution of DSC scan curves from Fig. 1 as CP concentration-dependent area change of deconvolved components related to the dynamics of each subdomain respectively.
In the absence of CP, there are only three components of the DSC graphs the two tiny peaks are the response of sd2 and sd4 subdomains which are linked to the sd1-3 core unit as the main peak. In the presence of CP, the DSC graphs contain one more peak seems like the response of sd1-3 core decayed to two components refers to a freely opened structure of the lower cleft by a possible alkylation of nucleotide-binding residues [63,64,65,66,67]. Small peaks at the lowest temperature level on each graph have to be the response of the simplest sd2 subdomain [60]. The flexibility of the sd4 depends on which type of cation binds to the high-affinity sites presumably Mg2+ can coordinate more residues than Ca2+ thus can dominate the heat response of actin [21, 59]. In case of Ca2+ G-actin, the area of peaks related to sd1-3 core unit decreases by CP in a concentration-dependent manner while other peaks related to sd2 and sd4 are seems independent of CP treatment. In case of Ca2+ F-actin, the area of peaks related to sd1-3 core unit and the two more peaks do not show any response to increases concentration of CP. In case of Mg2+ G-actin, the area of peaks related to sd1-3 core unit also decreases by CP in a concentration-dependent manner while the peak of sd4 turned to be the main component and the peak of sd2 seems independent of CP concentration. In case of Mg2+ F-actin, the area of peaks of sd1-3 core unit also decreases by CP in a concentration-dependent manner while the peak of sd4 turned out to be the main component already by 3 µg/ml of CP and the peak of sd2 still does not show any effect of CP.
Discussion
Ca2+ and Mg2+ can bind to the low and high-affinity cation binding sites on actin in the nucleotide-binding cleft and several more points on the surface of monomer [21]. Ca2+ can coordinate lower number of residues than Mg2+ with a lower affinity of nucleotide in the binding cleft results a more flexible composition of subdomains [61]. The CP treatment caused alkylation of nucleotide-binding residues can open up the lower and within the upper cleft of actin monomers and the "scissor-like" motion of domains can be transformed to a “butterfly-like” motion in a CP concentration dependent manner (Fig. 3). The previously expressed “titled state” EM model of filamentous actin based on the same structural change of monomers as we found here were the domains response to any modification with taking apart sd4 from sd2 results in a more exposed cleft between the two main domains [68]. The sd4 seems the most rigid basis of the Mg2+ bound highly dynamical alkylated structure of actin. In the axis of filamentous actin sd3-4 subdomains are buried and sd1-2 are more exposed to the environment [61]. Ca2+ bound actin monomers were stacked in a highly flexible filamental form which looks protected from the effect of CP while Mg2+ bound sd1-2 subdomains are moving freely on a stiff sd3-4 based filamental axis after CP treatment.
Conclusions
As it was expected [38,39,40,41,42] our recent study showed the importance of a single dose of CP (3 µg CP to 2 mg actin [51]) already can have effect on Guinea pig and rabbit muscle fibres. Ligand binding to actin modifies the structure of nucleotide-binding cleft and seems cooperative with an induced allosteric conformational change in the structure of actin filaments [43,44,45,46,47] with modified contractility of sarcomeres.
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Lőrinczy, D., Szatmári, D. Dose-dependent effect of cyclophosphamide treatment on actin. J Therm Anal Calorim 147, 10403–10409 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-022-11253-3
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