Immunochemical analysis of Acanthamoeba myosins IA, IB, and II.
Immunochemical analysis of Acanthamoeba myosins IA, IB, and II.
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棘阿米巴肌球蛋白 IA、IB 和 II 的免疫化学分析。
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发表时间:
1979
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
E. Korn
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作者:
H. Gadasi;E. Korn
Extracts of Acanthamoeba castellanii contain three myosin isoenzymes which differ in native molecular weight, subunit composition, and enzymatic properties. Peptide mapping of their heavy chains had previously provided strong evidence that the three myosins are products of different genes. These conclusions have now been extended by immunochemical studies. In the radioimmunoprecipitation assay, antibodies raised against myosin II react with it, but not with myosin IA or myosin IB, and antibodies raised against either myosin IA or myosin IB do not react with myosin II. Antibodies raised against either myosin IA or IB react with both myosins IA and IB, but these two isoenzymes are, nonetheless, immunochemically distinguishable by competitive radioimmunoassay and other criteria. Similarly, myosin II antibodies inhibit the actin-activated Mg+ATPase activity of myosin II, but not that of myosin IA, while antibodies to myosins IA and IB inhibit the actin-activated Mg’+ATPase activity of myosin IA, but not that of myosin II. Direct immunoprecipitation of cell extracts with antibodies and reaction of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide electrophoretic gels of whole amoebae with antibodies and “?-protein A confirm these observations and also show that it is at least the heavy chains of myosins IA and IB that have common antigenic sites. Furthermore, these latter experiments provide data compatible with earlier evidence that, despite the unusually low molecular weights of their heavy chains, the isolated myosins are likely to be the native molecules as they exist in the cell.