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JOURNAL OF MUSCLE RESEARCH AND CELL MOTILITY
卷 21, 期 7, 页码 673-680出版社
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005676106940
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The masseter muscle of eutherian grazing mammals typically express beta or slow myosin heavy chain (MyHC). Myosins in the masseter of 4 species of kangaroos and a slow limb muscle of one of them were compared with their cardiac myosin by pyrophosphate and sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) gel electrophoresis, immunoblotting and immunohistochemistry. It was found that ventricular muscle contains three isoforms homologous to V-1 (alpha -MyHC homodimer), V-2 (heterodimer) and V-3 (beta -MyHC homodimer) of eutherian cardiac muscle, and that the masseter contained V-1, with traces of V-2 and V-3, in great contrast to eutherian ruminants, which express only V-3. A polyclonal antibody (anti-KJM) was raised in rabbits against red kangaroo masseter myosin. After cross-absorption against limb muscle myofibrils, anti-KJM specifically reacted in Westerns with MyHCs from masseter but not limb muscles, and immunohistochemically with masseter, but not limb muscle fibers. In pyrophosphate Western blots, anti-KJM reacted with V-1 but not with V-3. However, a monoclonal antibody specific for eutherian slow myosin stained all kangaroo slow muscle fibers but only weakly stained scattered fibers in the masseter. The SDS-PAGE revealed that light chain composition of masseter and ventricular myosins is identical, but isoforms of both light chains of kangaroo limb slow myosin were observed. These results confirm that kangaroo jaw muscle express alpha -MyHC rather than beta -MyHC. The difference in MyHC gene expression between marsupial and eutherian grazers may be related to the fact that kangaroos are not ruminants, and have only a single chance to comminute food into fine particles, hence the need for the greater speed and power of muscle contraction associated with V-1 containing muscle fibers.
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