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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-5-14
pubmed:abstractText
While the existence of post-hatch and adult myosin heavy chain isoforms in the large, avian type IIB pectoralis major muscle has been clearly established, the number and nature of fast myosin heavy chains during in ovo development and the perihatch period have not been resolved. In the present study, developmental fast heavy chain proteins purified by high resolution anion-exchange have been characterized by sequence analysis of a unique CNBr peptide and by complementary mRNA analysis. The four proteins present at 15/16 days in ovo are shown to differ uniquely in primary structure. They correlate with heavy chains II, IV, VI and VII, characterized recently as major or minor species in adult fast muscles using similar methods. These four heavy chains are expressed in a time-dependent fashion from 8 to 16 days in ovo. At the mRNA level, heavy chain VI predominates until 12 days in ovo. Heavy chain IV mRNA is upregulated dramatically at 16 days in ovo preparatory to its protein's predominance in the peri-hatch period. Heavy chains II, IV and V (the post-hatch isoform which replaces heavy chain IV) have major roles in adult fast muscles.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0142-4319
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
157-68
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Protein and mRNA analysis of myosin heavy chains in the developing avian pectoralis major muscle.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn 11203, USA. jrushbrook@netmail.hscbklyn.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.