Switch movements and the myosin crossbridge stroke.

abstract：:The phenotypic expression of cardiomyopathy is greatly influenced by extrinsic factors other than intrinsic genetic defects, such as environmental stress. Exercise is assumed to be an important extrinsic factor, since sudden death is sometimes seen during exercise in young patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Tatsuguchi M,Hiratsuka E,Machida S,Nishikawa T,Imamura S,Shimizu S,Nishimura M,Komuro I,Furutani Y,Furutani M,Nagao H,Komatsu K,Kasanuki H,Matsuoka R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental shift in contractile protein isoform expression in the rodent heart likely affects actin-myosin cross-bridge interactions. We compared the Ca2+ sensitivity for force generation and cross-bridge cycling kinetics in neonatal (postnatal days 0-3) and adult (day 84) rats. The force-pCa relationship was d...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Prakash YS,Cody MJ,Housmans PR,Hannon JD,Sieck GC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single muscle fiber sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel-electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) is a sensitive technique for determining skeletal muscle myosin heavy chain (MHC) composition of human biopsy samples. However, the number of fibers suitable to represent fiber type distribution via this method is undefined. Muscl...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Murach KA,Bagley JR,McLeland KA,Arevalo JA,Ciccone AB,Malyszek KK,Wen Y,Galpin AJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr. John Gergely passed away on July 26, 2013 after a long and distinguished career. His publications spanned 67 years. He founded the Department of Muscle Research in the Retina Foundation (which later became the Boston Biomedical Research Institute) and served as director for 34 years. Dr. Gergely served on the edit...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Greaser ML,Potter JD,Thomas DD,Strasburg GM,Lehrer SS,Wang CL,Grabarek Z

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Changes in the isoform patterns of myosin heavy chains (MHC) and Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) were studied in long-term (72 days) denervated slow-twitch soleus muscles of euthyroid and hyperthyroid rabbits. MHC isoforms were separated electrophoretically. SERCA isoforms were assessed by electrophoretic separation of the trypsi...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Hämäläinen N,Pette D

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:The hypothesis that calmodulin (CaM) may act as a positive modulator of junctional SR Ca2+-release channel/ ryanodine receptor (RyRl) rests largerly on the demonstrated capacity of CaM to interact structurally and functionally with RyRl at pCa > 8 (Tripathy et al., 1995). The goal of the present [3H]-ryanodine binding...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Damiani E,Margreth A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scallop S1 has a region sensitive to tryptic hydrolysis not found thus far in S1s of other species, located 65K from the N-terminus as determined by SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. In the presence of actin the S1 heavy chain is preferentially cleaved at this site. The high-salt EDTA and calcium ATPase activiti...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Szentkiralyi EM

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invertebrate mini-titins are members of a class of myosin-binding proteins belonging to the immunoglobulin superfamily that may have structural and/or regulatory properties. We have isolated mini-titins from three molluscan sources: the striated and smooth adductor muscles of the scallop, and the smooth catch muscles ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Vibert P,Edelstein SM,Castellani L,Elliott BW Jr

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term 'microtubule dynamics' is often used to describe assembly/disassembly characteristics of this important cytoskeletal polymer. The ability to image microtubules in live Dictyostelium cells has revealed additional dynamic components, acting on the individual assembled tubules. At least two separate forces are i...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Koonce MP,Khodjakov A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the migration of capillary endothelial cells is believed central to the process of new blood vessel development in vivo, the biochemical basis for endothelial motility is unknown. Herein, we demonstrate that retina-derived growth factor (RDGF), a mitogen for endothelial cells (EC), stimulates the migration of mi...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Herman IM,D'Amore PA

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trabeculae from the right ventricle of rat were chemically 'skinned' with saponin (50 micrograms ml-1 for 30 min). Caffeine (10 mM) induced a transient contracture as a consequence of Ca(2+)-release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum and subsequent activation of the myofilaments. The amplitude of the caffeine contracture...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Steele DS,Miller DJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have revealed unconventional myosin V to be an important actin-based molecular motor involved in vesicular movement. In this paper we report the molecular characterization of the Drosophila myosin V, identified by reverse genetics. The gene encodes a 1792-residue, 207 kDa heavy chain polypeptide which p...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Bonafé N,Sellers JR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explain observed differences in the activation dependence of force redevelopment kinetics between cardiac and skeletal muscle, two numerical models of contractile regulation by Ca2+ were investigated. Ca2+ binding and force production were each modelled as two-state processes with forward and reverse rate constants...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Hancock WO,Huntsman LL,Gordon AM

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：:Creatine kinase (CK) isoenzyme compositions of different types of single muscle fibres dissected from soleus (SOL) and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles from rats were examined. CK isoenzymes were separated into cytoplasmic (CK-MM, CK-MB, CK-BB) (muscle, brain and hybrid types, respectively) and mitochondrial (m...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Yamashita K,Yoshioka T

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomyosin-kappa (TPM1-κ) is a newly discovered tropomyosin (TM) isoform that is exclusively expressed in the human heart and generated by an alternative splicing of the α-TM gene. We reported that TPM1-κ expression was increased in the hearts of patients with chronic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). To increase our und...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Karam CN,Warren CM,Rajan S,de Tombe PP,Wieczorek DF,Solaro RJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 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 pattern of spontaneous skeletal muscle degeneration and clinical recovery hindlimb muscles of the mdx mutant mouse was examined for functional and metabolic confirmation of apparent structural regeneration. The contractile properties, histochemical staining and myosin light chain and parvalbumin contents of extens...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Anderson JE,Bressler BH,Ovalle WK

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of the principal cytoskeletal components (actin, tubulin and 10 nm filament protein) have been compared by immunofluorescence microscopy in two populations of chick heart fibroblasts, previously shown to be adapted respectively for rapid, directed migration or adhesion and growth. We find that neither...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Badley RA,Couchman JR,Rees DA

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A confocal microscope was used to investigate the reversible vacuolation of frog skeletal muscle fibres produced by the efflux and entry of glycerol (80-100 mM). The formation, development and disappearance of vacuoles was observed in the fibres by staining simultaneously with two fluorescent membrane probes, RH414 an...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Krolenko SA,Amos WB,Lucy JA

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：:Nebulin is an integral protein of skeletal muscle thin filaments and probably acts as a ruler for the thin filament length. Cardiac muscles of higher vertebrates have been shown earlier to lack nebulin. Instead in human and chicken cardiac muscle the much smaller protein nebulette replaces nebulin. Since nebulette is ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Fock U,Hinssen H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotary-shadowed filamin molecules appear as long, highly flexible rods curved into a variety of configurations. The particles observed were 2.7 nm wide but had contour lengths of either 98 nm or 193 nm. The longer particles are probably end-to-end dimers of the shorter but it is not clear how many polypeptide chains t...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Castellani L,Offer G,Elliott A,O'Brien EJ

更新日期：1981-06-01 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：:Troponin T (TnT) is one of the muscle regulatory proteins and is thought to be related to unique contractile properties in diverse muscles and also to myogenesis. The expression of TnT isoforms in the chicken wing muscles was investigated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting with an antiserum agai...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Miyazaki JI,Akutsu S,Satow N,Hirao C,Yao Y

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:The regulated assembly of actin filaments is essential in nearly all cell types. Studying actin assembly dynamics can pose many technical challenges. A number of these challenges can be overcome by using microfluidics to observe and manipulate single actin filaments under an optical microscope. In particular, microflu...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Wioland H,Suzuki E,Cao L,Romet-Lemonne G,Jegou A

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium overload is a fundamental pathogenic event associated with chronic muscle degeneration in muscular dystrophies. The possibility that L-type voltage-dependent calcium channels were involved in the etiology of chicken muscular dystrophy was investigated by studying the dihydropyridine receptors in transverse tub...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Moro G,Saborido A,Delgado J,Molano F,Megias A

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00