The interaction of actin with dystrophin

Proton NMR spectroscopy of synthetic peptides corresponding to defined regions of human dystrophin has been employed to study the interaction with F-actin. No evidence of interaction with a C-terminal region corresponding to amino acid residues 3429–3440 was obtained. F-actin restricted the mobility of residues 19–27 in a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues 10–32. This suggests that this is a site of F-actin interaction in the intact dystrophin molecule. Identical sequences to that of residues 19—22 in dystrophin, namely Lys-Thr-Phe-Thr are also present in the N-terminal regions of the α-actinins implying this is also a site of F-actin interaction with α-actinin.