SITE OF PARAMYOSIN IN INSECT FLIGHT-MUSCLE AND PRESENCE OF AN UNIDENTIFIED PROTEIN BETWEEN MYOSIN-FILAMENTS AND Z-LINE
SITE OF PARAMYOSIN IN INSECT FLIGHT-MUSCLE AND PRESENCE OF AN UNIDENTIFIED PROTEIN BETWEEN MYOSIN-FILAMENTS AND Z-LINE
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(77)90163-2
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
LUKE, BM
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作者:
BULLARD, B;HAMMOND, KS;LUKE, BM
The position of paramyosin in insect flight muscle was determined by labeling myofibrils with antibody to paramyosin and examining them by fluorescent microscopy and EM. Antiserum to dung beetle paramyosin had antibodies to another protein as well as to paramyosin. Specific anti-paramyosin bound to the H-zone of Lethocerus myofibrils showing paramyosin was exposed only in that region. Antibodies to the other protein bound at the ends of the A-band. The exposure of antigenic sites in the 2 regions of the myofibril depended on the extent of contraction in the myofibril: the sites at the end of the A-band were most exposed in rest-length myofibrils and those at the H-zone in shortened ones. Antibody-labeling in stretched bee muscle showed that the protein at the ends of the sarcomere extended from myosin filaments to Z-line. The high resting elasticity of insect flight muscle and hence its capacity for oscillatory contraction may be due to the protein between myosin filaments and Z-line. [Lethocerus cordofanus, L. maximus, Pachnoda ephippiata, Xylocopa flavo-rufa and Heliocopris dilloni.].