[Dialdehyde derivatives of purine mononucleotides: substrate properties and affinity modification of myosin ATPase]

It was demonstrated that the dialdehyde derivative of ATP is a good substrate for Ca-ATPase of heavy meromyosin (Km = (1.2-1.4) X 10(-4) M; V = VATP). At the same time, this compound can induce irreversible inhibition of the enzyme. Since oxo-ATP is rapidly hydrolyzed by myosin to form oxo-ADP, this inhibition is the result of the enzyme interaction with oxo-ADP. It was found that the kinetics of heavy meromyosin inhibition by oxo-ADP are typical of affinity modification; in this case ATP fully protects heavy meromyosin from the activity loss. Similar results on the irreversible inhibition of the ATPase activity under the action of oxo-ADP were obtained in the presence of myosin, heavy meromyosin, subfragment I and natural actomyosin and in the absence of bivalent cations, thus suggesting the modification of the active center of myosin ATPase.