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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 52, Issue 1 313-325, Copyright © 1981 by Company of Biologists

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A biochemical dissection of the cardiac intercalated disk: isolation of subcellular fractions containing fascia adherentes and gap junctions

CA Colaco and WH Evans

In view of our limited knowledge of the biochemical composition of intercellular junctions, a method was developed for the preparation from rats and mice of plasma membranes containing cardiac intercalated disks. When these membranes were extracted with detergents, e.g. N-lauryl sarcosinate or deoxycholate, the detergent-insoluble material contained structures derived mainly from fascia adherentes junctions, but a few gap junctions and maculae adherentes were also present. When the detergent extraction was carried out at an alkaline pH, the maculae adherentes junctions were dissolved. Fractionation of the detergent-insoluble extract on a sucrose gradient yielded a fraction containing fascia adherentes junction of density 1.20-1.26 g/cm3. Gap junctions banded at a lower density, 1.16-1.20 g/cm3. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the major polypeptide bands in the fascia adherentes-enriched fraction were of molecular weights 134000, 108000, 62-64000, 58000, 47000 and 43000. Although fractions with the gap junctions were contaminated by fascia adherentes junctions, the major polypeptides were calculated by subtraction to be of mol. wt 37000, 26000 and 19000. Two glycoproteins corresponding to minor polypeptides visualized by Coomassie Blue staining were present in the fascia adherentes fraction. Comparison of the fascia adherentes-enriched fraction with a Z-disc fraction prepared from rabbit hearts indicated a different morphology and polypeptide composition.


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