The Z-band: 85,000-dalton amorphin and alpha-actinin and their relation to structure.
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 94 (3), 565-573
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.94.3.565
Abstract
There is an 85,000-dalton protein, called 85K [kilodalton] amorphin, associated with the Z-band of chicken pectoralis muscle myofibrils. This protein was purified and isolated. It is not a structural component of the Z-filaments, since it can be extracted completely without extraction of the Z-filaments. Extraction of 85K amorphin results in loss of specific staining of the Z-band with fluorescence specific anti-85K amorphin. Actinin is the structural component of the Z-filaments, since extraction of .alpha.-actinin is accompanied by loss of the Z-filament structure.This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
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