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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 111, Issue 11 1567-1574, Copyright © 1998 by Company of Biologists
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WA Linke, MR Stockmeier, M Ivemeyer, H Hosser and P Mundel
Institute of Physiology II, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 326, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany. wolfgang.linke@urz.uni
The poly-immunoglobulin domain region of titin, located within the elastic section of this giant muscle protein, determines the extensibility of relaxed myofibrils mainly at shorter physiological lengths. To elucidate this region's contribution to titin elasticity, we measured the elastic properties of the N-terminal I-band Ig region by using immunofluorescence/immunoelectron microscopy and myofibril mechanics and tried to simulate the results with a model of entropic polymer elasticity. Rat psoas myofibrils were stained with titin-specific antibodies flanking the Ig region at the N terminus and C terminus, respectively, to record the extension behaviour of that titin segment. The segment's end-to-end length increased mainly at small stretch, reaching approximately 90% of the native contour length of the Ig region at a sarcomere length of 2.8 microm. At this extension, the average force per single titin molecule, deduced from the steady-state passive length-tension relation of myofibrils, was approximately 5 or 2.5 pN, depending on whether we assumed a number of 3 or 6 titins per half thick filament. When the force-extension curve constructed for the Ig region was simulated by the wormlike chain model, best fits were obtained for a persistence length, a measure of the chain's bending rigidity, of 21 or 42 nm (for 3 or 6 titins/half thick filament), which correctly reproduced the curve for sarcomere lengths up to 3.4 microm. Systematic deviations between data and fits above that length indicated that forces of >30 pN per titin strand may induce unfolding of Ig modules. We conclude that stretches of at least 5-6 Ig domains, perhaps coinciding with known super repeat patterns of these titin modules in the I-band, may represent the unitary lengths of the wormlike chain. The poly-Ig regions might thus act as compliant entropic springs that determine the minute levels of passive tension at low extensions of a muscle fiber.
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