Changes in Myosin Isozymes during Development of Chicken Gizzard Muscle
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 93 (3), 903-908
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jb/93.3.903
Abstract
The distributions of myosin isozymes in embryonic and adult chicken gizzard muscle were examined by electrophoresis in a non-denaturing gel system (pyrophosphate acrylamide gel electrophoresis), and both light and heavy chains of embryonic and adult myosin isozymes were compared. In pyrophosphate acrylamide gel electrophoresis, there were three isozyme com ponents in embryonic gizzard myosin, but only one isozyme in adult gizzard myosin. The mobility of the fastest migrating embryonic isozyme was similar to that of the adult isozyme. The three embryonic isozymes differ from each other in the light chain distribution. Two of them contain an embryo-specific myosin light chain, which is characterized by its molecular weight and isoelectric point, whereas the other embryonic myosin isozyme contained the same light chains as the adult myo sin. The pattern of peptide fragments of embryonic heavy chain produced by digestion with α-chymotrypsin in the presence of SDS was not distinguishable from that of adult myosin heavy chain. Thus there are myosin isozymes specific to embryonic gizzard muscle which exhibit embryo-specific light chain compositions, but are similar to adult gizzard myosin in their heavy chain structure.Keywords
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