Superelongation in helical muscles of leeches.

abstract：:To study the development of muscle-specific features during myogenesis, we analysed the ultrastructure and voltage-dependent currents of frog embryonic skeletal myocytes maintained in culture for 10 days. The cells were maintained under culture conditions that prevented cell division, fusion and cell contacts with neu...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Nasledov GA,Katina IE,Terentyev DA,Tomilin NV,Lukyanenko VI

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:Chronic low-frequency electrical stimulation of rabbit fast-twitch skeletal muscle induces increased levels of two intermediate filament proteins, desmin and vimentin, during the first 3 weeks of stimulation. These increases occur over the same timecourse as reported shifts in alpha-actinin expression and increased Z-...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Baldi JC,Reiser PJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：:Isolated frog muscle fibres of four different lengths (L0, initial; L1, 15%; L2, 25%; and L3, 35% stretched vs. L0) were stimulated continuously (3 min) by suprathreshold rectangular pulses at three different frequencies (f1 = 5 Hz, f2 = 6.7 Hz and f3 = 10 Hz). Using a pair of electrodes mounted at a fixed distance, t...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Radicheva N,Mileva K,Vydevska M

更新日期：1998-01-01 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 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：:Skeletal muscle tissue is mechanosensitive, as it is able to sense mechanical impacts and to translate these into biochemical signals making the tissue adapt. Among its mechanosensitive nature, skeletal muscle tissue is the largest metabolic organ of the human body. Disturbances in skeletal muscle mechanosensing and m...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Pingel J,Suhr F

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the regulatory roles of MgADP and free Ca2+ in isometric tension development in skinned bovine cardiac muscle. We found that, in the relaxed state without free Ca2+, MgADP elicited a sigmoidal increase in active tension, as is the case in skeletal muscle (ADP-contraction). The critical MgADP concentrat...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Fukuda N,Fujita H,Fujita T,Ishiwata S

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the amino acid sequences of the essential light chains (ELC) and regulatory light chains (RLC) of myosin from two species of clam, Mercenaria mercenaria and Macrocallista nimbosa, using protein chemistry methods. The N-termini of all four proteins were blocked, and sequencing was carried out on vari...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Barouch WW,Breese KE,Davidoff SA,Leszyk J,Szent-Györgyi AG,Theibert JL,Collins JH

更新日期：1991-08-01 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 ATP-ADP exchange reaction and its related partial reactions of fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum from bullfrog skeletal muscle (frog FSR) were investigated and compared with those of rabbit FSR in order to understand the characteristics of calcium-activated ATPase (Ca2+-ATPase) of frog FSR. MgATP and magnesium-fre...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Ogawa Y,Kurebayashi N

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that the active tension of C2C12 myotubes that had been subjected to artificial exercise for ~10 days decreased rapidly after termination of the artificial exercise. When differentiated C2C12 myotubes were subjected to continuous 1 Hz artificial exercise for ~10 days, the active tension increased to ~4× compa...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Fujita H,Hirano M,Shimizu K,Nagamori E

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：: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：:RNA-binding motif protein 3 (RBM3), a stress-inducible RNA-binding protein that increases protein synthesis and confers cell protection in multiple cell types, has been identified as a possible regulator of skeletal muscle mass. Therefore, the primary aim of this study was to examine the impact of elevated RBM3 on ske...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Van Pelt DW,Confides AL,Judge AR,Vanderklish PW,Dupont-Versteegden EE

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calsequestrin type-1 (CASQ1), the main sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) binding protein, plays a dual role in skeletal fibers: a) it provides a large pool of rapidly-releasable Ca(2+) during excitation-contraction (EC) coupling; and b) it modulates the activity of ryanodine receptors (RYRs), the SR Ca(2+) release ch...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Protasi F,Paolini C,Canato M,Reggiani C,Quarta M

更新日期：2011-12-01 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 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：:There is evidence to suggest that 8 nm calcium transport particles in the sarcoplasmic reticulum are involved in the regulation of twitch properties in adult muscles. We have studied ultrastructural characteristics of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in relation to previously defined physiological changes that take place in...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Gauthier GF,Hobbs AW

更新日期：1986-04-01 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：:Protein kinase C (PKC) is known to play important roles in integrin mediated cell spreading. This study investigated the role of PKC during insulin mediated muscle cell spreading, which was independent of integrin alpha5. We found that PKC-alpha becomes active and localise to membrane during insulin mediated cell spre...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Goel HL,Dey CS

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:To date, there has been no report of rat TnC purification, despite the rat being an animal commonly used in physiological studies of mammalian muscle. In this study we isolated the fast and slow Troponin C isoforms from rat extensor digitorum longus (23 microg TnC/g wet weight) and soleus (17.6 microg TnC/g wet weight...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： O'Connell B,Stephenson GM

更新日期：2003-01-01 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 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 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：: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：: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 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