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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 107, Issue 5 1115-1129, Copyright © 1994 by Company of Biologists
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C Ferguson, A Lakey, A Hutchings, GW Butcher, KR Leonard and B Bullard
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
Asynchronous insect flight muscles produce oscillatory contractions and can contract at high frequency because they are activated by stretch as well as by Ca2+. Stretch activation depends on the high stiffness of the fibres and the regular structure of the filament lattice. Cytoskeletal proteins may be important in stabilising the lattice. Two proteins, zeelin 1 (35 kDa) and zeelin 2 (23 kDa), have been isolated from the cytoskeletal fraction of Lethocerus flight muscle. Both zeelins have multiple isoforms of the same molecular mass and different charge. Zeelin 1 forms micelles and zeelin 2 forms filaments when renatured in low ionic strength solutions. Filaments of zeelin 2 are ribbons 10 nm wide and 3 nm thick. The position of zeelins in fibres from Lethocerus flight and leg muscle was determined by immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy. Zeelin 1 is found in flight and leg fibres and zeelin 2 only in flight fibres. In flight myofibrils, both zeelins are in discrete regions of the A-band in each half sarcomere. Zeelin 1 is across the whole A-band in leg myofibrils. Zeelins are not in the Z-disc, as was thought previously, but migrate to the Z-disc in glycerinated fibres. Zeelins are associated with thick filaments and analysis of oblique sections showed that zeelin 1 is closer to the filament shaft than zeelin 2. The antibody labelling pattern is consistent with zeelin molecules associated with myosin near the end of the rod region. Alternatively, the position of zeelins may be determined by other A-band proteins. There are about 2.0 to 2.5 moles of myosin per mole of each zeelin. The function of these cytoskeletal proteins may be to maintain the ordered structure of the thick filament.
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