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It has been known that isoforms of myosin essential light chain (LC) exhibit the isoform-specific sorting within cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts. In order to analyze which domain of LC is responsible for the sorting, various chimeric cDNA constructs between human nonmuscle isoform (LC3nm) and chicken fast skeletal muscle isoform (LC3f) were generated and expressed in cultured chicken cardiac myocytes. If chimeras contained LC3f sequence at the place that was restricted by BssHII and PstI, they were preferentially sorted to sarcomeres and precisely localized at A-bands, and their incorporation levels into the A-bands were identical with that of the wild type LC3f. However, other chimeras were distributed throughout the cytoplasm like the wild type LC3nm. Comparison of amino acid sequences revealed that 12 amino acids are different between chicken LC3f and human LC3nm in the BssHII-PstI fragment, and these amino acids are located within the second EF-hand of LC. These results indicated that the second EF-hand is responsible for the isoform-specific sorting of LC. Although the second EF-hand is not included in the key contacts with myosin heavy chain, it is supposed that this domain is important for the relative disposition of neighboring domains. Thus, the 12 amino acids in the second EF-hand might play a key role for modulation of overall configuration of LC, thereby influencing the precise association of the key contacts.

The Second EF-hand Is Responsible for the Isoform-specific Sorting of Myosin Essential Light Chain.