title: A novel myosin I from bovine adrenal gland.
abstract: A 3.5 kb cDNA clone was isolated from bovine adrenal gland cDNA library. The clone contained a full-length 3.1 kb open reading frame, encoding a novel myosin I. The deduced amino acid sequence was highly homologous to other known myosin Is in the N-terminal 2 kb region which corresponds to the myosin head domain, while no strong homology was detected in the tail region. The head-tail junction contained the Ca(2+)-independent calmodulin binding consensus sequence, suggesting that the novel myosin I binds calmodulin. This was confirmed by calmodulin overlay which showed the binding of 125I-calmodulin to the recombinant myosin I expressed in E. coli. Northern blots with probes from head and tail regions of this myosin I revealed that this novel myosin I is widely distributed among various tissues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikebe
mesh_terms: D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000737:chemistry*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D002118:Calcium / Q000494:pharmacology; D002147:Calmodulin / Q000378:metabolism; D002417:Cattle; D002645:Chickens; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D015342:DNA Probes; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009218:Myosins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D002147:Calmodulin; D015342:DNA Probes; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D009218:Myosins; D002118:Calcium