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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-2-22
pubmed:abstractText
To analyze potential functional consequences of myosin heavy chain (MHC) mutations identified in patients with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC), we have assessed the stability of the mutant MHCs and their ability to form thick filaments. Constructs encoding wild-type rat alpha MHC and seven corresponding FHC missense mutants were transfected into COS cells. Immunoblot analysis suggested that FHC mutations do not grossly alter protein stability. Wild-type alpha MHC transfected into COS cells forms structures previously shown to be arrays of thick filaments, which also resemble myosin structures observed early in differentiation of muscle cells. Surprisingly, up to 29% of COS cells transfected with the FHC mutants failed to form filamentous structures. To assess whether this phenotype was specific for the FHC mutants and not generalizable to any myosin mutation, COS cells were transfected with a construct encoding an MHC with a 168-amino acid deletion of the hinge/rod region. This deletion construct formed filamentous structures with the same frequency as wild-type MHC. Biochemical analysis of one FHC mutant (Arg-249-->Gln) demonstrates that the structures formed by the mutant are solubilized at a lower ionic strength than those formed by wild-type MHC. We conclude that although the FHC mutant MHC is not labile, its assembly properties may be impaired.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
18
pubmed:volume
91
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
589-93
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Functional analysis of myosin missense mutations in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't