Role of protein kinase C during insulin mediated skeletal muscle cell spreading.

abstract：:We investigated the expression of myosin subunits (myosin heavy chains) as well as light chains and the in vivo phosphorylation of the phosphorylatable myosin light chain in the heart ventricle of the adult male European hamster (Cricetus cricetus L.). Two myosin heavy chain isoenzymes could be detected under native a...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Morano I,Adler K,Agostini B,Hasselbach W

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical illness myopathy (CIM) is associated with severe muscle atrophy and fatigue in affected patients. Apoptotic signaling is involved in atrophy and is elevated in muscles from patients with CIM. In this study we investigated underlying mechanisms of apoptosis-related pathways in muscles with different fiber type...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Barnes BT,Confides AL,Rich MM,Dupont-Versteegden EE

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The loss of muscle force and power during fatigue from intense contractile activity is associated with, and likely caused by, elevated levels of phosphate ([Formula: see text]) and hydrogen ions (decreased pH). To understand how these deficits in muscle performance occur at the molecular level, we used direct measurem...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Jarvis K,Woodward M,Debold EP,Walcott S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telokin, a 17 kDa smooth muscle specific protein, consists of the C-terminal domain of MLCK, is phosphorylated by PKA and PKG at Ser13 in vivo (Wu et al. (1998) J Biol Chem 273: 11362-11369; Walker et al. (2001) J. Biol Chem 276: 24519-24524) and is proposed to induce Ca2+-desensitization through activation of myosin ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Choudhury N,Khromov AS,Somlyo AP,Somlyo AV

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAb's) have been raised against proteins in preparations of Z-discs isolated from honeybee fibrillar flight muscle. These antibodies have identified four Z-disc antigens on immunoblots of honeybee fibrillar proteins. Antibody alpha binds to the 90-100 kD protein, alpha-actinin; mAb P interacts w...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Saide JD,Chin-Bow S,Hogan-Sheldon J,Busquets-Turner L

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myosin II motor from Dictyostelium discoideum has been engineered to contain single tryptophan residues at strategic locations to probe movements of switch 1 and switch 2. The tryptophan residue at W501 probes movement of the relay helix and indirectly reports on switch 2 movement. This probe suggests that there i...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Málnási-Csizmadia A,Dickens JL,Zeng W,Bagshaw CR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemistry was used to determine the myosin composition of defined fibre types of three embryologically different adult muscles, the oro-facial, masseter and limb muscles. In addition, the myosin composition in whole muscle specimens was analysed with biochemical methods. Both similarities and differences be...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Stål P,Eriksson PO,Schiaffino S,Butler-Browne GS,Thornell LE

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the temperature dependence of active force in lengthening and shortening muscle. Experiments were done, in vitro, on bundles of intact fibres (fibre length L(0) ~2 mm; sarcomere length ~2.5 μm) isolated from a rat fast muscle (flexor hallucis brevis) and a ramp length change...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Roots H,Pinniger GJ,Offer GW,Ranatunga KW

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of spin-labelled myosin, prepared from rabbit skeletal and scallop adductor muscle, on forming a long-lived complex with ADP and vanadate (M.ADP.Vi), have been investigated. In the case of an iodoacetamide-based label attached to rabbit myosin or subfragment 1, M.ADP.Vi formation is characterized by a m...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Wells C,Bagshaw CR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2,3-butanedione 2-monoxime (BDM, 3-30 mM) decreased twitch force of intact ventricular trabeculae isolated from 19-day embryonic chick hearts in a dose-dependent manner. The responses to BDM were rapid and reversible. In an attempt to determine the cellular basis for the inhibitory effect of BDM, experiments were carr...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Brotto MA,Fogaça RT,Creazzo TL,Godt RE,Nosek TM

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of urocortin (Uro), a recently discovered neuropeptide with selectivity towards corticotropin-releasing hormone type 2 receptor, was tested on whole cell currents expressed by guinea-pig gastric antrum smooth muscle cells. Uro (1 pmol/l-1 nmol/l) caused a concentration-dependent increase of Ca2+-sensitive K...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Petkova-Kirova PS,Gagov HS,Duridanova DB

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myomesin-I (also known as Skelemin) is a approximately 185 kDa protein, which is highly expressed in striated muscle. It contains the prototypic class-I (type-III fibronectin) and class-II (C2-immunoglobulin) motifs. Previous studies have shown the presence of Myomesin-I at the M-line of the sarcomere, where it is tho...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Reddy KB,Fox JE,Price MG,Kulkarni S,Gupta S,Das B,Smith DM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The L-type Ca2+ channel in skeletal muscle (alpha1S) is essential for excitation-contraction (EC) coupling. Previous studies using chimeras composed of alpha1S together with alpha1C or alpha1M demonstrated the importance of the alpha1S II-III loop and of a smaller subdomain (residues 720-764; 'ECC') in skeletal EC cou...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Wilkens CM,Beam KG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of Mn2+ and Ca2+ on the mechanical properties of glycerinated myofibrillar bundles originating from slow S1 type muscle fibres of superficial flexor muscles of the lobster Nephrops norvegicus were investigated. Mn2+ (5-20 microM) activated the preparations in a dose-dependent manner. The sensitivity of myofibr...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Holmes JM,Hilber K,Galler S,Neil DM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clenbuterol is a beta2-adrenoceptor agonist primarily used for treating bronchospasm and alleviating the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the horse. In other species (rats, mice, sheep, and cattle), chronic high doses of clenbuterol (typically in the milligram per kilogram body weight range)...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Plant DR,Kearns CF,McKeever KH,Lynch GS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The details of the global and local structure and function of titin, a giant filamentous intrasarcomeric protein are largely undiscovered. Here we discuss a combination of bulk-solution and novel single-molecule techniques that may lend unique insights into titin's molecular dynamic, structural and mechanical characte...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Kellermayer MS,Grama L

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygous calsequestrin 2 (CASQ2) point mutations leads to catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: a common pathogenetic feature appears to be the drastic reduction of mutant CASQ2 in spite of normal transcription. Comparative biochemical analysis of R33Q and D307H knock in mutant mice identifies diffe...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Valle G,Arad M,Volpe P

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of Ca2+ and Mg2+ among the 'regulatory' cation binding sites of troponin (T-sites) and the strong, Ca2+-Mg2+ binding sites of troponin and parvalbumins (P-sites) in the sarcoplasm of a muscle was calculated. At rest, 60% of the T-sites were metal free, while 92% of the P-sites were loaded with Mg2+. I...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Gillis JM,Thomason D,Lefèvre J,Kretsinger RH

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study alterations are characterized which occur, in myocardial force development morphological appearance and protein composition, during the development of cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure in monocrotaline (MCT) treated rats. The transition from cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure was studied by compari...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Korstjens IJ,Rouws CH,van der Laarse WJ,Van der Zee L,Stienen GJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fine structure of leech body wall muscles, has been analysed under great length variations. All the measurable parameters of the fibre (distance between thick filaments, sarcomere and A band width, percentage of actin crowns around myosin filaments, fibre radius) at different elongations were tested with equations...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Lanzavecchia G,de Eguileor M,Valvassori R

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myosin light chains of slow muscles from different species have been examined two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. While the myosin light chain 2S of mammalian soleus muscles (rabbit, rat and guinea-pig) could not be distinguished from that of avian anterior latissimus dorsi (chicken and turkey), the 1S light chai...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Carraro U,dalla Libera L,Catani C

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of the 'EGTA-treatment' for producing a model of selectively 'skinned' cardiac muscle has been questioned. This paper deals with ultrastructural evidence designed to test whether small ions can gain access to the myofibrillar space of the heart after 'EGTA-treatment'. Lanthanum has been employed because o...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Miller DJ,Elder HY,Smith GL

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The change in orientation of myosin crossbridges in contracting muscle during sudden length changes was examined by fluorescence polarization. This study used a fluorescent ATP analogue, 1,N6-etheno-2-aza-ATP(epsilon-2-aza-ATP) as a probe. Its fluorescence is considerably enhanced upon binding with myosin and is depen...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Yanagida T

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain gene cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This study investigates (1) the in vitro velocities of translocation of fluorescently-labelled actin by beta-myosin purified from soleus muscle of 30 hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients with seven distinct beta-myosin heavy chain...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Cuda G,Fananapazir L,Epstein ND,Sellers JR

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trimeric protein AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is an important sensor of energetic status and cellular stress, and mutations in genes encoding two of the regulatory γ subunits cause inherited disorders of either cardiac or skeletal muscle. AMPKγ2 mutations cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with glycogen depo...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Pinter K,Grignani RT,Watkins H,Redwood C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins containing disintegrin domains play a variety of roles in regulating processes involving adhesion, migration and cell type specification during development of many metazoan organisms. Most disintegrin domain containing proteins belong to the ADAM (a disintegrin and a metalloprotease) family of proteins that a...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Blumberg DD,Ho HN,Petty CL,Varney TR,Gandham S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated fibres from various muscles were skinned mechanically in oil. From a Ca2+-loaded micropipette, local applications of Ca2+ were made. These produced a limited contraction which relaxed spontaneously. The time-course of sarcomere shortening and re-lengthening was recorded by microcinephotography. Application of...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Gillis JM

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin heavy chain species were investigated during development in avian pectoralis major muscles (type IIB fibres) by high resolution anion-exchange chromatography of the myosin head region, subfragment-1. At 15 days in ovo four distinct fast-type heavy chain species, I, II, III and IV, in order of elution, were iden...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Rushbrook JI,Weiss C,Yao TT

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart disease is a leading cause of death in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Patients with DMD lack the protein dystrophin, which is widely expressed in striated muscle. In skeletal muscle, the loss of dystrophin results in dramatically decreased expression of the dystrophin associated glycoprotein co...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Sharpe KM,Premsukh MD,Townsend D

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much has been written about the effects of aging on reproductive function, especially female fertility. Much less is known about how aging may affect the contractility of the smooth muscle within the uterus, the myometrium. The myometrium is active through a woman's entire life, not just during pregnancy. Here we will...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Arrowsmith S,Robinson H,Noble K,Wray S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00