title: Amino-acid sequence of the short subfragment-2 in adult chicken cardiac muscle myosin.
abstract: The amino-acid sequence of the short subfragment-2 in the amino-terminal portion of subfragment-2 derived from adult chicken ventricular muscle myosin was completely determined by direct protein analysis. Peptides fragmented by cyanogen bromide, lysyl endopeptidase and arginyl endopeptidase of S-carboxymethylated S-2 and peptides of large CNBr peptides cleaved by dilute formic acid were separated and sequenced. This short S-2 composed of 259 amino-acid residues was found highly conserved and contained hydrophobic and charged residue repeat units. Comparing this sequence with the partial nucleotide sequence of cDNA corresponding to short S-2 (Stewart A.F.R., et al. (1991) J. Mol. Evol. 33, 357-366), a 64 amino-acid residues extension towards the NH2 terminus and 9 residues differences were observed. Furthermore, this sequence is compared with those of rat, rabbit and human ventricular myosins, and 86.1%, 86.5%, 86.5% sequence identities are observed, respectively.
authors.affiliation: School of Allied Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Japan.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009206:Myocardium / Q000737:chemistry*; D009218:Myosins / Q000737:chemistry*; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases
chemical_list: D012697:Serine Endopeptidases; C060325:arginine endopeptidase; C036813:lysyl endopeptidase; D009218:Myosins