The structure of the vertebrate striated muscle thin filament: a tribute to the contributions of Jean Hanson.

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 mRNA levels of the adult and the neonatal sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPases (SERCA1a and SERCA1b, respectively) and those of the muscle regulatory factors (MRFs: myoD, myf-5, myogenin, MRF4) have been assessed by RT PCR in rat soleus muscles immobilized for 3 days in an extended position (passive s...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Zádor E,Dux L,Wuytack F

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle myofibers constantly undergo degeneration and regeneration. Histopathological features of 6 skeletal muscles (cranial tibial [CT], gastrocnemius, quadriceps femoris, triceps brachii [TB], lumbar longissimus muscles, and costal part of the diaphragm [CPD]) were compared using C57BL/10ScSn-Dmd mdx (mdx) ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Ikeda T,Ichii O,Otsuka-Kanazawa S,Nakamura T,Elewa YH,Kon Y

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

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：:A set of five differential equations has been found which gives a satisfactory account of the isotonic and isometric properties of striated muscle. Four of these differential equations give an equally satisfactory account of the results of length-drive experiments with sinusoidal variation of length. In this case, the...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Cheung AS,Gray BF

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:Stretchin-klp is a newly described protein in Drosophila indirect flight muscles (IFM) that migrates on SDS gels as two distinct components of approximately 225 and 231 kD. Although the larger isoform is IFM specific, the smaller stretchin-klp isoform is expressed not only in IFM, but also in wild-type tissues of the ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Patel SR,Saide JD

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：: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：:The developmental expression of nebulin was studied in embryonic chick skeletal muscle cells in vitro by means of immunofluorescence microscopy. Initially nebulin appeared homogeneously or in a punctate form in the cytoplasm, and then it was assembled into I-Z-I-like complexes containing actin and alpha-actinin but no...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Komiyama M,Zhou ZH,Maruyama K,Shimada Y

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of the protein kinase A (PKA) inhibitor, H-89, in mechanically-skinned muscle fibres and intact muscle fibres, in order to determine whether PKA phosphorylation is essential for normal excitation-contraction (E-C) coupling. In skinned EDL fibres of the rat, force responses to depola...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Blazev R,Hussain M,Bakker AJ,Head SI,Lamb GD

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the expression of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and dystrophin in the regenerating skeletal muscles of rats after cardiotoxin-induced myonecrosis by immunohistochemical studies and western blot analysis. In normal muscles, nNOS was moderately immunostained on type 2B fibers, but was faintly imm...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Hoshino S,Ohkoshi N,Ishii A,Shoji S

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Skeletal muscle has a remarkable ability to respond to different physical stresses. Loading muscle through exercise, either anaerobic or aerobic, can lead to increases in muscle size and function while, conversely, the absence of muscle loading stimulates rapid decreases in size and function. A principal mediator of t...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Graham ZA,Gallagher PM,Cardozo CP

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo state of assembly of myosin in vertebrate smooth muscle is controversial. In vitro studies on purified smooth muscle myosin show that it is monomeric (10S) under relaxing conditions and filamentous under contraction conditions. Electron microscopic and antibody labelling studies of intact smooth muscles, o...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Xu JQ,Gillis JM,Craig R

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical properties of myofibrillar bundles from single chemically skinned fibres from the superficial abdominal flexor muscle of the Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus were measured, and the protein content of these fibres was analysed by SDS-PAGE. Two slow fibre phenotypes (S1, S2) were distinguished on the basis ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

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

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of the titin filament in the vicinity of the Z-line were investigated using immunoelectron microscopy. We used monoclonal titin antibodies T-11 and T-12 on single fibres of frog skeletal muscle, and on Z-line-extracted fibres. It is well established that the I-band region of titin is elastic. We fi...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Trombitás K,Pollack GH

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular function of the giant protein titin in striated muscle is a major focus of scientific attention. Particularly, its role in passive mechanics has been extensively investigated. In strong contrast, the structural details of this filament are very poorly understood. To date, only a handful of atomic models f...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Marino M,Svergun DI,Kreplak L,Konarev PV,Maco B,Labeit D,Mayans O

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamin binds to F-actin and influences the myosin-actin interaction. At relatively low concentrations, filamin activates actomyosin Mg2+-ATPase, whereas higher concentrations of filamin exert an inhibitory effect. Activation of ATPase activity occurs under conditions where a loose meshwork of actin filaments is prese...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Dabrowska R,Goch A,Osińska H,Szpacenko A,Sosinski J

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated high-affinity ryanodine-binding sites in membrane preparations from representative fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscles of the rabbit and rat, as well as from human mixed muscle. Our results, obtained in high-ionic strength binding buffer, demonstrate extensive similarities in binding affinity for ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Damiani E,Margreth A

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two single mutations, R694N and E45Q, were introduced in the beta isoform of human cardiac myosin to remove permanent salt bridges E45:R694 and E98:R694 in the SH1-SH2 helix of the myosin head. Beta isoform-specific bridges E45:R694 and E98:R694 were discovered in the molecular dynamics simulations of the alpha and be...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Gargey A,Iragavarapu SB,Grdzelishvili AV,Nesmelov YE

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The β-adrenergic receptor stimulation improves endurance in fast twitch muscles and these effects are sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ influx. Present study is aimed to determine the effects of adrenaline, with different concentrations of extracellular Ca2+[Formula: see text], on the contractility and endurance of slow...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Rizvi MH,Abdul Azeem M,Savanur A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical events following release of ATP from P3-1-(2-nitro)phenylethyladenosine-5'-triphosphate (caged-ATP) in skinned guinea pig taenia coli smooth muscle in rigor were investigated. A rigor force of about 25-35% of the maximal active force was obtained by removing ATP at the plateau of a maximal active contra...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Arner A,Goody RS,Rapp G,Rüegg JC

更新日期：1987-10-01 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 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：:Skeletal muscle fibers exhibit plasticity of their physiological and biochemical properties in response to the firing pattern from the innervating motor neuron. In particular, the gene expression pattern generally characteristic of a slow twitch fiber can be induced in a fast twitch fiber by chronic slow fiber type el...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Shen T,Liu Y,Randall WR,Schneider MF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rigor complexes between actin and myosin have been shown to cause increased binding of Ca2+ to troponin C. A similar effect of force-generating crossbridges has been suggested as an explanation for the coupling between load and activation which has been observed in skeletal and cardiac muscle. The goal of this study w...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Fuchs F

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate a potential regulatory role of the nerve, the distribution and expression of dystrophin, of beta-dystroglycan (43DAG) and adhalin (50DAG), two of the dystrophin-associated proteins and utrophin (dystrophin related protein or DRP) were studied in rat muscles after 2 weeks of denervation. We found that dystr...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Biral D,Senter L,Salviati G

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:The present study describes transitions in myosin heavy chain expression in the extraocular muscles of rats between the ages of E17 and adult. The unique phenotype of the extraocular muscle is reflected in its fibre type composition, which is comprised by six distinct profiles, each defined by location (orbital versus...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Brueckner JK,Itkis O,Porter JD

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00