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Lamber EP, Guicheney P, Pinotsis N. The role of the M-band myomesin proteins in muscle integrity and cardiac disease. J Biomed Sci 2022; 29:18. [PMID: 35255917 PMCID: PMC8900313 DOI: 10.1186/s12929-022-00801-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Transversal structural elements in cross-striated muscles, such as the M-band or the Z-disc, anchor and mechanically stabilize the contractile apparatus and its minimal unit—the sarcomere. The ability of proteins to target and interact with these structural sarcomeric elements is an inevitable necessity for the correct assembly and functionality of the myofibrillar apparatus. Specifically, the M-band is a well-recognized mechanical and signaling hub dealing with active forces during contraction, while impairment of its function leads to disease and death. Research on the M-band architecture is focusing on the assembly and interactions of the three major filamentous proteins in the region, mainly the three myomesin proteins including their embryonic heart (EH) isoform, titin and obscurin. These proteins form the basic filamentous network of the M-band, interacting with each other as also with additional proteins in the region that are involved in signaling, energetic or mechanosensitive processes. While myomesin-1, titin and obscurin are found in every muscle, the expression levels of myomesin-2 (also known as M-protein) and myomesin-3 are tissue specific: myomesin-2 is mainly expressed in the cardiac and fast skeletal muscles, while myomesin-3 is mainly expressed in intermediate muscles and specific regions of the cardiac muscle. Furthermore, EH-myomesin apart from its role during embryonic stages, is present in adults with specific cardiac diseases. The current work in structural, molecular, and cellular biology as well as in animal models, provides important details about the assembly of myomesin-1, obscurin and titin, the information however about the myomesin-2 and -3, such as their interactions, localization and structural details remain very limited. Remarkably, an increasing number of reports is linking all three myomesin proteins and particularly myomesin-2 to serious cardiovascular diseases suggesting that this protein family could be more important than originally thought. In this review we will focus on the myomesin protein family, the myomesin interactions and structural differences between isoforms and we will provide the most recent evidence why the structurally and biophysically unexplored myomesin-2 and myomesin-3 are emerging as hot targets for understanding muscle function and disease.
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Rall JA. What makes skeletal muscle striated? Discoveries in the endosarcomeric and exosarcomeric cytoskeleton. ADVANCES IN PHYSIOLOGY EDUCATION 2018; 42:672-684. [PMID: 30431326 DOI: 10.1152/advan.00152.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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One of the most iconic images in biology is the cross-striated appearance of a skeletal muscle fiber. The repeating band pattern shows that all of the sarcomeres are the same length. All of the A bands are the same length and are located in the middle of the sarcomeres. Furthermore, all of the myofibrils are transversely aligned across the muscle fiber. It has been known for 300 yr that skeletal muscle is striated, but only in the last 40 yr has a molecular understanding of the striations emerged. In the 1950s it was discovered that the extraction of myosin from myofibrils abolished the A bands, and the myofibrils were no longer striated. With the further extraction of actin, only the Z disks remained. Strangely, the sarcomere length did not change, and these "ghost" myofibrils still exhibited elastic behavior. The breakthrough came in the 1970s with the discovery of the gigantic protein titin. Titin, an elastic protein ~1 µm in length, runs from the Z disk to the middle of the A band and ensures that each sarcomere is the same length. Titin anchors the A band in the middle of the sarcomere and may determine thick-filament length and thus A-band length. In the 1970s it was proposed that the intermediate filament desmin, which surrounds the Z disks, connects adjacent myofibrils, resulting in the striated appearance of a skeletal muscle fiber.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jack A Rall
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, Ohio State University , Columbus, Ohio
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Lynch JM, Dolman AJ, Guo C, Dolan K, Xiang C, Reda S, Li B, Prasanna G. Mutant myocilin impacts sarcomere ultrastructure in mouse gastrocnemius muscle. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0206801. [PMID: 30395621 PMCID: PMC6218065 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Myocilin (MYOC) is the gene with mutations most common in glaucoma. In the eye, MYOC is in trabecular meshwork, ciliary body, and retina. Other tissues with high MYOC transcript levels are skeletal muscle and heart. To date, the function of wild-type MYOC remains unknown and how mutant MYOC causes high intraocular pressure and glaucoma is ambiguous. By investigating mutant MYOC in a non-ocular tissue we hoped to obtain novel insight into mutant MYOC pathology. For this study, we utilized a transgenic mouse expressing human mutant MYOC Y437H protein and we examined its skeletal (gastrocnemius) muscle phenotype. Electron micrographs showed that sarcomeres in the skeletal muscle of mutant CMV-MYOC-Y437H mice had multiple M-bands. Western blots of soluble muscle lysates from transgenics indicated a decrease in two M-band proteins, myomesin 1 (MYOM1) and muscle creatine kinase (CKM). Immunoprecipitation identified CKM as a MYOC binding partner. Our results suggest that binding of mutant MYOC to CKM is changing sarcomere ultrastructure and this may adversely impact muscle function. We speculate that a person carrying the mutant MYOC mutation will likely have a glaucoma phenotype and may also have undiagnosed muscle ailments or vice versa, both of which will have to be monitored and treated.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cytoskeletal Proteins/genetics
- Cytoskeletal Proteins/metabolism
- Disease Models, Animal
- Eye Proteins/genetics
- Eye Proteins/metabolism
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Glaucoma, Open-Angle/genetics
- Glaucoma, Open-Angle/metabolism
- Glaucoma, Open-Angle/pathology
- Glycoproteins/genetics
- Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Humans
- Intraocular Pressure/genetics
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Mice, Transgenic
- Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
- Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism
- Muscle, Skeletal/ultrastructure
- Mutant Proteins/genetics
- Mutant Proteins/metabolism
- Mutation
- Myocardium/metabolism
- Phenotype
- Recombinant Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
- Sarcomeres/genetics
- Sarcomeres/metabolism
- Sarcomeres/ultrastructure
- Trabecular Meshwork/metabolism
- Trabecular Meshwork/ultrastructure
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- Jeffrey M. Lynch
- Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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Charton K, Suel L, Henriques SF, Moussu JP, Bovolenta M, Taillepierre M, Becker C, Lipson K, Richard I. Exploiting the CRISPR/Cas9 system to study alternative splicing in vivo: application to titin. Hum Mol Genet 2018; 25:4518-4532. [PMID: 28173117 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddw280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2016] [Revised: 07/29/2016] [Accepted: 08/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The giant protein titin is the third most abundant protein in striated muscle. Mutations in its gene are responsible for diseases affecting the cardiac and/or the skeletal muscle. Titin has been reported to be expressed in multiple isoforms with considerable variability in the I-band, ensuring the modulation of the passive mechanical properties of the sarcomere. In the M-line, only the penultimate Mex5 exon coding for the specific is7 domain has been reported to be subjected to alternative splicing. Using the CRISPR-Cas9 editing technology, we generated a mouse model where we stably prevent the expression of alternative spliced variant(s) carrying the corresponding domain. Interestingly, the suppression of the domain induces a phenotype mostly in tissues usually expressing the isoform that has been suppressed, indicating that it fulfills (a) specific function(s) in these tissues allowing a perfect adaptation of the M-line to physiological demands of different muscles.
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- Karine Charton
- INSERM, U951, INTEGRARE research unit Evry, France,Généthon, Evry, France
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- INSERM, U951, INTEGRARE research unit Evry, France,Généthon, Evry, France
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- INSERM, U951, INTEGRARE research unit Evry, France,Généthon, Evry, France,University of Evry-Val-D’Essone, Evry, France
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- SEAT - SErvice des Animaux Transgéniques CNRS -TAAM -phenomin UPS44 Bâtiment G 7, rue Guy Môquet 94800 Villejuif, France
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- SEAT - SErvice des Animaux Transgéniques CNRS -TAAM -phenomin UPS44 Bâtiment G 7, rue Guy Môquet 94800 Villejuif, France
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- SEAT - SErvice des Animaux Transgéniques CNRS -TAAM -phenomin UPS44 Bâtiment G 7, rue Guy Môquet 94800 Villejuif, France
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- SEAT - SErvice des Animaux Transgéniques CNRS -TAAM -phenomin UPS44 Bâtiment G 7, rue Guy Môquet 94800 Villejuif, France
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- INSERM, U951, INTEGRARE research unit Evry, France,Généthon, Evry, France
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The muscle M-band protein myomesin comprises a 36-nm long filament made of repetitive immunoglobulin–helix modules that can stretch to 2.5-fold this length, demonstrating substantial molecular elasticity. Skeletal and cardiac muscles are remarkable biological machines that support and move our bodies and power the rhythmic work of our lungs and hearts. As well as producing active contractile force, muscles are also passively elastic, which is essential to their performance. The origins of both active contractile and passive elastic forces can be traced to the individual proteins that make up the highly ordered structure of muscle. In this Primer, we describe the organization of sarcomeres—the structural units that produce contraction—and the nature of the proteins that make muscle elastic. In particular, we focus on an elastic protein called myomesin, whose novel modular architecture helps explain elasticity.
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- Larissa Tskhovrebova
- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Leeds University, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Leeds University, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Al-Khayat HA, Kensler RW, Morris EP, Squire JM. Three-dimensional structure of the M-region (bare zone) of vertebrate striated muscle myosin filaments by single-particle analysis. J Mol Biol 2010; 403:763-76. [PMID: 20851129 PMCID: PMC3314970 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.09.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2010] [Revised: 09/01/2010] [Accepted: 09/09/2010] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The rods of anti-parallel myosin molecules overlap at the centre of bipolar myosin filaments to produce an M-region (bare zone) that is free of myosin heads. Beyond the M-region edges, myosin molecules aggregate in a parallel fashion to yield the bridge regions of the myosin filaments. Adjacent myosin filaments in striated muscle A-bands are cross-linked by the M-band. Vertebrate striated muscle myosin filaments have a 3-fold rotational symmetry around their long axes. In addition, at the centre of the M-region, there are three 2-fold axes perpendicular to the filament long axis, giving the whole filament dihedral 32-point group symmetry. Here we describe the three-dimensional structure obtained by a single-particle analysis of the M-region of myosin filaments from goldfish skeletal muscle under relaxing conditions and as viewed in negative stain. This is the first single-particle reconstruction of isolated M-regions. The resulting three-dimensional reconstruction reveals details to about 55 Å resolution of the density distribution in the five main nonmyosin densities in the M-band (M6′, M4′, M1, M4 and M6) and in the myosin head crowns (P1, P2 and P3) at the M-region edges. The outermost crowns in the reconstruction were identified specifically by their close similarity to the corresponding crown levels in our previously published bridge region reconstructions. The packing of myosin molecules into the M-region structure is discussed, and some unidentified densities are highlighted.
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- Hind A Al-Khayat
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, Bessemer Building, London, UK.
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Schoenauer R, Lange S, Hirschy A, Ehler E, Perriard JC, Agarkova I. Myomesin 3, a novel structural component of the M-band in striated muscle. J Mol Biol 2007; 376:338-51. [PMID: 18177667 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.11.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2007] [Revised: 11/12/2007] [Accepted: 11/13/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The M-band is the cytoskeletal structure that cross-links the myosin and titin filaments in the middle of the sarcomere. Apart from the myosin tails and the C-termini of titin, only two closely related structural proteins had been detected at the M-band so far, myomesin and M-protein. However, electron microscopy studies revealed structural features that do not correlate with the expression of these two proteins, indicating the presence of unknown constituents in the M-band. Using comparative sequence analysis, we have identified a third member of this gene family, myomesin 3, and characterised its biological properties. Myomesin 3 is predicted to consist of a unique head domain followed by a conserved sequence of either fibronectin- or immunoglobulin-like domains, similarly to myomesin 3 and M-protein. While all three members of the myomesin family are localised to the M-band of the sarcomere, each member shows its specific expression pattern. In contrast to myomesin, which is ubiquitously expressed in all striated muscles, and M-protein, whose expression is restricted to adult heart and fast-twitch skeletal muscle, myomesin 3 can be detected mainly in intermediate speed fibers of skeletal muscle. In analogy to myomesin, myomesin 3 targets to the M-band region of the sarcomere via its N-terminal part and forms homodimers via its C-terminal domain. However, despite the high degree of homology, no heterodimer between distinct members of the myomesin gene family can be detected. We propose that each member of the myomesin family is a component of one of the distinct ultrastructures, the M-lines, which modulate the mechanical properties of the M-bands in different muscle types.
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- Roman Schoenauer
- Institute of Cell Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Agarkova I, Ehler E, Lange S, Schoenauer R, Perriard JC. M-band: a safeguard for sarcomere stability? J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2004; 24:191-203. [PMID: 14609030 DOI: 10.1023/a:1026094924677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The sarcomere of striated muscle is a very efficient machine transforming chemical energy into movement. However, a wrong distribution of the generated forces may lead to self-destruction of the engine itself. A well-known example for this is eccentric contraction (elongation of the sarcomere in the activated state), which damages sarcomeric structure and leads to a reduced muscle performance. The goal of this review is to discuss the involvement of different cytoskeletal systems, in particular the M-band filaments, in the mechanisms that provide stability during sarcomeric contraction. The M-band is the transverse structure in the center of the sarcomeric A-band, which is responsible both for the regular packing of thick filaments and for the uniform distribution of the tension over the myosin filament lattice in the activated sarcomere. Although some proteins from the Ig-superfamily, like myomesin and M-protein, are the major candidates for the role of M-band bridges, the exact molecular organisation of the M-band is not clear. However, the protein composition of the M-band seems to modulate the mechanical characteristics of the thick filament lattice, in particular its stiffness, adjusting it to the specific demands in different muscle types. The special M-band design in slow fibers might be part of structural adaptations, favouring sarcomere stability for a continuous contractile activity over a broad working range. In conclusion, we discuss why the interference with M-band structure might have fatal consequences for the integrity of the working sarcomere.
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- Irina Agarkova
- Institute of Cell Biology, ETH-Zurich Hoenggerberg, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Agarkova I, Schoenauer R, Ehler E, Carlsson L, Carlsson E, Thornell LE, Perriard JC. The molecular composition of the sarcomeric M-band correlates with muscle fiber type. Eur J Cell Biol 2004; 83:193-204. [PMID: 15346809 DOI: 10.1078/0171-9335-00383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The M-band is the transverse structure that cross-links the thick filaments in the center and provides a perfect alignment of the A-band in the activated sarcomere. The molecular composition of the M-bands in adult mouse skeletal muscle is fiber-type dependent. All M-bands in fast fibers contain M-protein while M-bands in slow fibers contain a significant proportion of the EH-myomesin isoform, previously detected only in embryonic heart muscle. This fiber-type specificity develops during the first postnatal weeks. However, the ratio between the amounts of myosin and of myomesin, taken as sum of both isoforms, remains nearly constant in all studied muscles. Ultrastructural analysis demonstrates that some of the soleus fibers show a diffuse appearance of the M-band, resembling the situation in the embryonic heart. A model is proposed to explain the functional consequence of differential M-band composition for the physiological and morphological properties of sarcomeres in different muscle types.
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- Irina Agarkova
- Institute of Cell Biology, ETH-Zurich Hoenggerberg, Zurich, Switzerland
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Fürst DO, Obermann WM, van der Ven PF. Structure and assembly of the sarcomeric M band. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 1999; 138:163-202. [PMID: 10396141 DOI: 10.1007/bfb0119627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- D O Fürst
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany
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Fürst DO, Obermann WMJ, Ven PFM. Structure and assembly of the sarcomeric M Band. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 1999. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02346663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Bantle S, Keller S, Haussmann I, Auerbach D, Perriard E, Mühlebach S, Perriard JC. Tissue-specific isoforms of chicken myomesin are generated by alternative splicing. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:19042-52. [PMID: 8702575 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.32.19042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Myomesin is a high molecular weight protein that is present in the M-band of all fiber types of cross-striated skeletal muscle and heart. We have isolated two cDNAs encoding tissue-specific isoforms of chicken myomesin with calculated molecular masses of 174 kDa in skeletal muscle and 182 kDa in heart. Distinct sequences are found at the 3'-end of the two cDNAs, giving rise to different C-terminal domains. Partial analysis of the gene structure has shown that in chicken, both isoforms are generated by alternative splicing of a composite exon. Amino acid sequences show that the main body of myomesin consists of five fibronectin type III (class I motifs) and seven immunoglobulin-like domains (class II motifs). An identical structure was found in M-protein and human 190K protein (the human counterpart of chicken myomesin), and a comparable domain arrangement occurs in the M-band-associated protein skelemin. We postulate that myomesin, M-protein, and skelemin belong to the same subfamily of high molecular weight M-band-associated proteins of the immunoglobulin superfamily and that they probably have the same ancestor in evolution.
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- S Bantle
- Institute for Cell Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Pask HT, Jones KL, Luther PK, Squire JM. M-band structure, M-bridge interactions and contraction speed in vertebrate cardiac muscles. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 1994; 15:633-45. [PMID: 7706420 DOI: 10.1007/bf00121071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Cardiac muscle M-band structures in several mammals (guinea pig, rabbit, rat and cow) and also from three teleosts (plaice, carp and roach), have been studied using electron microscopy and image processing. Axial structure seen in negatively stained isolated myofibrils or negatively stained cryo-sections shows the presence of five strong M-bridge lines (M6, M4, M1, M4' and M6') except in the case of the teleost M-bands in which the central M-line (M1) is absent, giving a four-line M-band. The M4 (M4') lines are consistently strong in all muscles, supporting the suggestion that bridges at this position are important for the structural integrity of the A-band myosin filament lattice. Across the vertebrate kingdom, cardiac M-band ultrastructure appears to correlate roughly with heartbeat frequency, just as in skeletal muscles it correlates with contraction speed, reinforcing the suggestion that some M-band components may have a significant physiological role. Apart from rat heart, which is relatively fast and has a conventional five-line M-band with M1 and M4 approximately equal, the rabbit, guinea pig and beef heart M-bands from a new 1 + 4 class; M1 is relatively very much stronger than M4. Transverse sections of the teleost (roach) cardiac A-band show a simple lattice arrangement of myosin filaments, just as teleost skeletal muscles. Almost all other vertebrate striated muscles, including mammalian heart muscles, have a statistical superlattice structure. The high degree of filament lattice order in teleost cardiac muscles indicates their potential usefulness for ultrastructural studies. It is shown that, in four-line M-bands in which the central (M1) M-bridges are missing, interactions at M4 (M4') are sufficient to define the different myosin filament orientations in simple lattice and superlattice A-bands. However the presence of M1 bridges may improve the axial order of the A-band.
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- H T Pask
- Biophysics Section, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK
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Malinchik SB, Lednev VV. Interpretation of the X-ray diffraction pattern from relaxed skeletal muscle and modelling of the thick filament structure. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 1992; 13:406-19. [PMID: 1401037 DOI: 10.1007/bf01738036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The first part of this paper is devoted to the model-building studies of our high resolution meridional X-ray diffraction patterns (in the region from 1/500 to 1/50 A-1) obtained from relaxed frog muscle. A one-dimensional model of thick filament was proposed which basically consists of two symmetrical arrays of 50 crossbridge crown projections. In the proximate and central zones of the filament the crossbridge crowns are regularly shifted with a 429 A period and appear as triplets with a 130 A distance between crowns, while the crowns in the distal parts of filament are regularly ordered with a 143 A repeat. The centre-to-centre distance between regions with crossbridge perturbations is 7050 A. The length of each crown projection is about 125 A. The model includes also (1) C-protein component represented in each half of the filament by seven stripes of about 350 A long and located 429 A apart, (2) a uniform density of filament backbone of about 1.5 micron length, and (3) 13 high density stripes in a central zone located with 223 A period. The final model explains very well the positions and intensities of the main meridional reflections. A three-dimensional model of crossbridge configuration is described in the second part of the work. The model was constructed by using the intensity profiles of the first six myosin layer lines of the X-ray pattern from stretched muscle and taking into account the crossbridge perturbations and the axial size of crossbridge crown obtained from the one-dimensional studies.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- S B Malinchik
- Institute of Biological Physics, Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow, Russia
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Sjöström M, Squire JM, Luther P, Morris E, Edman AC. Cryoultramicrotomy of muscle: improved preservation and resolution of muscle ultrastructure using negatively stained ultrathin cryosections. J Microsc 1991; 163:29-42. [PMID: 1717692 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1991.tb03157.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Ultrathin sections of rapidly frozen, briefly pre-treated muscle tissue are cut and thereafter are thawed and contrasted using a negative staining technique. The method has provided micrographs in which the in-vivo order in the muscle fibres has been preserved well enough to enable both a more complete interpretation of X-ray diffraction evidence from muscle, and also a gain of new ultrastructural information on aspects of myofibril and myofilament architecture in different types of fibre. Examples here are taken from chicken, rabbit and fish muscles and show both the M-band and the bridge region of the A-band in great detail. To enhance the detail in the original images, one-dimensional (1-D) and 2-D averaging techniques (lateral smearing and step averaging, respectively) are used. Although there is major shrinkage in section thickness to about one-third of its original value, demonstrated here for the first time is the fact that the characteristic A-band lattice planes are preserved in these sections in 3-D. This confirms the usefulness of cryosections not just for 1-D and 2-D image processing, but also for 3-D reconstruction. Thus, in combination with techniques of image processing, cryoultramicrotomy can give the muscle morphologist the detailed data that are needed to match the molecular biologists, biochemists and immunologists in the interpretation of their data about physiological and pathophysiological events in muscle fibres at the macromolecular level.
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- M Sjöström
- Department of Social Medicine, University of Umea, Sweden
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