title: Invariance and heterogeneity in the major structural and regulatory proteins of chick muscle cells revealed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.
abstract: A two-dimensional gel electrophoresis system is used to investigate some of the properties of desmin, the major subunit of the 100-A filaments from chick muscle cells, and to compare these properties to those of the other major contractile and regulatory proteins of muscle. Desmin from embryonic and adult smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle cells is resolved into two isoelectric variants, alpha and beta, which possess slightly different electrophoretic mobilities in sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Both the alpha and the beta variants from all six preparations appear to be identical in isoelectric point and apparent molecular weight. The alpha and beta desmin are present in approximately equal amounts in all three types of muscle, suggesting that both isoelectric variants of desmin serve as the structural subunits of the 100-A filaments in chick muscle cells. Tropomyosin also can be resolved into two subunits, alpha and beta, in all three types of muscle. However, in each type of muscle both subunits differ from their counterparts in the other types of muscle, either by molecular weight or by isoelectric point. These results indicate that, with regard to apparent isoelectric point and molecular weight, desmin, a major muscle structural protein, is invariant, while tropomyosin, a major muscle regulatory protein, exhibits heterogeneity in the three types of muscle.
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005895:Gizzard, Avian / Q000502:physiology; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D009124:Muscle Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000502:physiology; D009132:Muscles / Q000502:physiology; D009928:Organ Specificity
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D009124:Muscle Proteins
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