DISASSEMBLY OF SYNTHETIC 10-NM DESMIN FILAMENTS FROM SMOOTH-MUSCLE INTO PROTOFILAMENTS
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 25 (1), 136-143
Abstract
Synthetic 10-nm filaments formed from highly purified turkey gizzard desmin have a helically oriented substructure and disassemble into 2-2.5 nm protofilaments and 3.5-5 nm subfilaments after treatment with 1 or 2 M urea or with low-ionic-strength buffer (8 mM Tris, pH 8.2). SDS[sodium dodecylsulfate]-gels of 10-nm filaments treated with these solutions show that a single 55,000-dalton band is present before and after all treatments and indicate that the newly revealed substructure is not caused by proteolysis. Antibodies to electrophoretically purified desmin react, in immunodiffusion, only with the antigen and decorate both the subfilamentous particles and the synthetic 10-nm filaments. A synthetic 10-nm desmin filament apparently is a rope-like structure constructed from the 2-2.5-nm-diameter protofilaments.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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