Production of specific antibodies to contractile proteins, and their use in immunofluorescence microscopy. I. Antibodies to smooth and striated chicken muscle myosins - PubMed (original) (raw)

Production of specific antibodies to contractile proteins, and their use in immunofluorescence microscopy. I. Antibodies to smooth and striated chicken muscle myosins

U Gröschel-Stewart et al. Histochemistry. 1976.

Abstract

Antibodies prepared against actomyosins can be shown to behave similarly, if not identically to more recently prepared antibodies against highly purified myosins. Details of the purification of the antigens, and of the production of antibodies to chick myosins from smooth gizzard muscle and from striated pectoral muscle are given. The antibody specificity appears to be directed against the heavy chains of the myosin molecules, since these antibodies specifically inhibit the myosin ATPase reaction, and since in situ staining of myosin polypeptide chains on an SDS gel using the antibodies in indirect fluorescence shows staining only in the heavy band region. Use of the antibodies in immunofluorescence microscopy suggest that the antibodies are tissue, but not species, specific. Example of their use in staining tissue sections are shown.

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