Comparative biochemistry of non-muscle actins.
Comparative biochemistry of non-muscle actins.
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非肌肉肌动蛋白的比较生物化学。
DOI:
10.1016/s0021-9258(17)40971-9
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发表时间:
1977
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K. Ed
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Gordon Dj;J. Boyer;K. Ed
Actin representative of the entire cell pool has been isolated in 25 to 30% yield from chick embryonic brain, human platelet, rat liver, and Acunthumoeba castellanii by a procedure involving chromatography on DEAE-cellulose (Gordon, DJ, Eisenberg, E., and Korn, ED (1976) J. Biol. Chem. 251, 4778-4786). Brain, platelet, and liver actins contain the p-and y-isoactins, previously described by others, with isoelectric points more alkaline than the aactin of rabbit skeletal muscle. Acanthamoeba actin is a single isoelectric species more alkaline than the y-actin of vertebrate non-muscle cells. As found previously for Acunthumoebu actin (Gordon, DJ, Yang, Y.-Z., and Korn, E. D.(1976) 5. Biol. Chem. 251, 7474-7479), the polymerization properties of the verbebrate non-muscle actins are also qualitatively similar to the polymerization of rabbit skeletal muscle actin, but, quantitatively, the non-muscle actins, despite their very different origins, are all much more similar to each other than any is to muscle actin. These data differ from reports that embryonic chick brain actin polymerizes only at very high concentrations to form paracrystalline aggregates rather than filaments(Bray, D., and Thomas, C.(1976) J. Mol. Biol. 105, 527-544) and that human platelets contain actin which polymerizes differently than muscle actin (Abramowitz, JW, Stracher, A., and Detwiler, T. C.(1973) Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 167, 230-237). The three v-ertebrate non-muscle actins were experimentally indistinguishable, and more like rabbit skeletal muscle actin than Acanthumoehu actin, in their ability to activate rabbit muscle heavy meromyosin MgZ+ ATPase although none of the non-muscle actins is as effective as muscle actin.Extracts of brain, platelets, and Acunthumoebu contain monomeric G-actin at concentrations much greater than the critical polymerization concentrations of the purified actins. We infer, therefore, the presence of other factors that interact with the actin to keep it nonpolymerized. The state of aggregation of actin in non-muscle cells is, presumably, regulated by such factors, and by others that interact with polymerized F-actin, and does not depend on non-