The contractile and regulatory proteins of insect flight muscle - PubMed (original) (raw)

The contractile and regulatory proteins of insect flight muscle

B Bullard et al. Biochem J. 1973 Oct.

Abstract

1. Myosin, actin and the regulatory proteins were prepared from insect flight muscle. 2. The light subunit composition of the myosin differed from that of vertebrate muscle myosin. The ionic strength and pH dependence of the myosin adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) were measured. 3. Actin was associated with a protein of subunit molecular weight 55000 and was purified by gel filtration. Impure actin had protein bound at a periodicity of about 40nm. 4. Regulatory protein extracts had tropomyosin and troponin components of subunit molecular weight 18000, 27000 and 30000. Crude extracts of regulatory proteins inhibited the ATPase activity of desensitized or synthetic actomyosin; this inhibition was relatively insensitive to high Ca(2+) concentrations. Purified insect regulatory protein produced as much sensitivity to Ca(2+) as did the rabbit troponin-tropomyosin complex. 5. Synthetic actomyosins were made from rabbit and insect proteins. Actomyosins containing insect myosin had a low ATPase activity that was activated by tropomyosin. The Ca(2+) sensitivity of actomyosins containing insect myosin or actin, with added troponin-tropomyosin complex from rabbit, was comparable with that of rabbit actomyosin.

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