ArticleEuropean biophysics journal : EBJ2016
Helical model of smooth muscle myosin filament and the ribbons made of caldesmon: history revisited.
Article in European biophysics journal : EBJ, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Myosin assembly of smooth muscle: from ribbons and side polarity to a row polar helical model.Journal of muscle research and cell motility · 2022Article
- Self-assembly of smooth muscle myosin filaments: adaptation of filament length by telokin and Mg·ATP.European biophysics journal : EBJ · 2022Article
- Expression and clinical significance of H-caldesmon in gastrointestinal stromal tumor: is it a specific marker for myogenic differentiation?International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2019Article
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Abstract
In early studies on smooth muscle, I described a crude myosin fraction (CMF) in which self-assembly of myosin filaments was observed. For the first time, the 14-nm periodicity stemming from regular arrangement of myosin heads on the filament surface was observed (Sobieszek in J Mol Biol 70:741-744, 1972). In this fraction, we also observed formation of long ribbon-shaped aggregates exhibiting a 5.6-nm periodicity, characteristic of tropomyosin (TM) paracrystals (Sobieszek and Small in Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 265:203-212, 1973). We therefore concluded that these ribbons were made of TM and they might be related to the myosin ribbons observed in electron micrographs (EM) of intact smooth muscle (Lowy and Small in Nature 227:46-51, 1970; Small and Squire in Mol Biol 67:117-149, 1972). Subsequently, Small (J Cell Sci 24:327-349, 1977) concluded that the ribbons observed in the EM sections were an artifact, but their observation in the CMF was not addressed. I have now revisited two aspects of the above studies. Firstly, based on my new multi-angle laser-scattering data and considering the length and stability of the building unit for the filament, a myosin trimer fit better to the previously proposed helical structure. Secondly, after two decades of systematic examinations of protein compositions in multiple smooth muscle extracts and isolated filaments, I concluded that the ribbons were made of caldesmon and not TM. Thirdly, actin-activated ATPase activity measurements indicated that modulation of this activity (by CaD and TM) was synergistic, cooperative and depended on myosin to actin ratio.
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