Assembly of the cardiac I-band region of titin/connectin: Expression of the cardiac-specific regions and their structural relation to the elastic segments

Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 449-461

  Gautel, Mathias ^a   Lehtonen, Eero ^b   Pietruschka, Fricke ^c  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; HEART MUSCLE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SARCOMERE LENGTH;

EID: 0029801781     PISSN: 01424319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00123361     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. ERICKSON, H. (1994) Reversible unfolding of fibronectin II and immunoglobulin domains provides the structural basis for stretch and elasticity of titin and fibronectin. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 91, 10114-18.
2. FUNATSU, T., KONO, E., HIGUCHI, H., KIMURA, S., ISHIWATA, S., YOSHIOKA, T., MARUYAMA, K. & TSUKITA, S. (1993) Elastic filaments in situ in cardiac muscle: deep-etch replica analysis in combination with selective removal of actin and myosin filaments. J. Cell Biol. 120, 711-24.
3. FÜRST, D. O. & GAUTEL, M. (1995) The anatomy of a molecular giant: how the sarcomeric cytoskeleton is assembled from molecules of the immunoglobulin superfamily. J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol. 27, 951-9.
4. FÜRST, D. O., OSBORN, M., NAVE, R. & WEBER, K. (1988) The organization of titin filaments in the half-sarcomere revealed by monoclonal antibodies in immunoelectron microscopy: a map of ten nonrepetitive epitopes starting at the Z line extends close to the M-line. J. Cell Biol. 106, 1563-72.
5. FÜRST, D. O., OSBORN, M. & WEBER, K. (1989) Myogenesis in the mouse embryo: differential onset of expression of myogenic proteins and the involvement of titin in myofibril assembly. J. Cell Biol. 109, 517-27.
6. GRANZIER, H. L. & IRVING, T. C. (1995) Passive tension in cardiac muscle: contribution of collagen, titin, microtubules, and intermediate filaments. Biophys. J. 68, 1027-44.
7. GRANZIER, H. L. & WANG, K. (1993) Passive tension and stiffness of vertebrate skeletal muscle and insect flight muscle: the contribution of weak crossbridges and elastic filaments. Biophys. J. 65, 2141-59.
8. HARLOW, E. & LANE, D. (1988) Antibodies - a laboratory manual. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
9. HILL, C. & WEBER, K. (1986) Monoclonal antibodies distinguish titins from heart and skeletal muscle. J. Cell Biol. 102, 1099-108.
10. HOROWITS, R. & PODOLSKY, R. J. (1987) The positional stability of thick filaments in activated skeletal muscle depends on sarcomere length: evidence for a role of titin filaments. J. Cell Biol. 105, 2217-23.
11. ITOH, Y., SUZUKI, T., KIMURA, S., OHASHI, K., HIGUSHI, H., SAWADA, H., SHIMIZU, T., SHIBATA, M. & MARUYAMA, K. (1988) Extensible and less extensible domains of connectin filaments in stretched vertebrate skeletal muscle sarcomeres as detected by immunofluorescence and immunoelectronmicroscopy using monoclonal antibodies. J. Biochem. 104, 504-8.
12. KAUFMAN, M. H. (1994) The Atlas of Mouse Development. London: Academic Press.
13. KELLER, C. S. (1995) Structure and function of titin and nebulin. Curr. Op. Cell Biol. 7, 32-8.
14. LABEIT, S., GAUTEL, M., LAKEY, A. & TRINICK, J. (1992) Towards a molecular understanding of titin. EMBO J. 11, 1711-16.
15. LABEIT, S. & KOLMERER, B. (1995) Titins, giant molecules in charge of muscle ultrastructure and elasticity. Science 270, 293-6.
16. LEHTONEN, E., ORDONEZ, G. & REIMA, I. (1988) Cytoskeleton in preimplantation mouse development. Cell Differentiation 24, 165-78.
17. LEHTONEN, E., SAXEN, L. & TUOMI, A. (1995) Embryonic kidney in organ culture. In Cell and Tissue Culture: Laboratory Procedures. (edited by GRIFFITHS, J. B., DOYLE, A. and NEWELL, D. G.) Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
18. MARUYAMA, K. (1976) Connectin, an elastic protein from myofibrils. J. Biochem. 80, 405-7.
19. MARUYAMA, K., NATORI, R. & NONOMURA, Y. (1976) New elastic protein from muscle. Nature 262, 58-9.
20. MARUYAMA, K., MATSUBARA, S., NATORI, K., NONOMURA, Y., KIMURA, S., OHASHI, K., MURAKAMI, F., HANDA, S. & EGUCHI, G. (1977) Connectin, an elastic protein of muscle: characterization and function. J. Biochem. 82, 317-37.
21. MARUYAMA, K., YOSHIOKA, T., HIGUCHI, H., OHASHI, K., KIMURA, S. & NATORI, R. (1985) Connectin filaments link thick filaments and Z-lines in frog skeletal muscle as revealed by immunoelectron microscopy. J. Cell Biol. 101, 2167-72.
22. MARUYAMA, K. (1994) Connectin, an elastic protein of striated muscle. Biophys. Chem. 50, 73-85.
23. MARUYAMA, K., ENDO, T., KUME, H., KAWAMURA, Y., KANZAWA, N., NAKAUCHI, Y., KIMUKA, S., KAWASHIMA, S. & MARUYAMA, K. (1995) A novel domain sequence of connectin localized at the I band of skeletal muscle sarcomeres: homology to neurofilament subunits. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 194, 1288-91.
24. MITSIADIS, T. A., SALMIVIRTA, M., MURAMATSU, T., MURAMATSU, H., RAUVALA, H., LEHTONEN, E., JALKANEN, M. & THESLEFF, I. (1995) Expression of the heparin-binding cytokines midkine (MK) and HB-GAM (pleiotrophin) is associated with epithelial-mesenchymal interactions during fetal development and organogenesis. Development 121, 37-51.
25. OBINATA, T. (1993) Contractile proteins and myofibrillogenesis. Int. Rev. Cytol. 143, 153-89.
26. PAULING, L., CREY, R. B. & BRANSON, H. R. (1951) The structure of proteins: two hydrogen-bonded helical conformations of the polypeptide chain. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 37, 205-11.
27. PFUHL, M. & PASTORE, A. (1995) Tertiary structure of an immunoglobulin-like domain from the giant muscle protein titin: a new member of the I-set. Structure 3, 391-401.
28. POLITOU, A., GAUTEL, M., PFUHL, M., LABEIT, S. & PASTORE, A. (1994a) Immunoglobulin-type domains of titin: same fold, different stability? Biochemistry 33, 4730-7.
29. POLITOU, A., GAUTEL, M., JOSEPH, C. & PASTORE, A. (1994b) Immunoglobulin domains of titin are stabilized by N-terminal extension, FEBS Lett. 352, 27-31.
30. POLITOU, A. GAUTEL, M., IMPROTA, S., VANGELISTA, L. & PASTORE, A. (1996) The elastic I-band region of titin is assembled in a "modular" fashion by weakly interacting Ig-like domains. J. Mol. Biol. 235, 604-16.
31. REEDY, M. K. & REEDY, M. C. (1985) Rigor crossbridge structure in tilted single filament layers and flared-x formations from insect flight muscle. J. Med. Biol. 185, 145-76.
32. REIMA, I., LEHTONEN, E., VIRTANEN, I. & FLECHON J. E. (1993) The cytoskeleton and associated proteins during cleavage, compaction and blastocyst differentiation in the pig. Differentiation 54, 35-45.
33. RODRIGUEZ, E. K., HUNTER, W. C., ROYCE, M. J., LEPPO, M. K., DOUGLAS, A. S. & WEISMAN, H. F. (1992) A method to reconstruct myocardial sarcomere lengths and orientation at transmural sites in beating canine hearts. Am. J. Physiol. 263, H293-H306.
34. TRINICK, J. (1994) Titin and nebulin: protein rulers in muscle? TIBS 19, 405-9.
35. TROMBITÁS, K. & POLLACK, G. H. (1993) Elastic properties of the titin filament in the Z-line region of vertebrate striated muscle. J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 14, 416-22.
36. TROMBITÁS, K., JIN, J.-P. & GRANZIER, H. (1995) The mechnically active domain of titin in cardiac muscle. Circulation Res. 77, 856-61.
37. VAINIO, S., LEHTONEN, E., JALKANEN, M., BERNFIELD, M. & SAXEN, L. (1989) Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions regulate the stage-specific expression of a cell surface proteoglycan, syndecan, in the developing kidney. Devel. Biol. 134, 382-91.
38. WANG, K., MCCLURE, J. & TU, A. (1979) Titin: major myofibrillar components of striated muscle. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 76, 3698-702.
39. WANG, S.-M. & GREASER, M. L. (1985) Immunocytochemical studies using a monoclonal antibody to bovine cardiac titin on intact and extracted myofibrils. J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 6, 293-312.
40. WANG, K., MCCARTER, R., WRIGHT, I., BEVERLY, J. & RAMIREZ-MITCHELL, R. (1991) Regulation of skeletal muscle stiffness and elasticity by titin isoforms: a test of the segmental extension model of resting tension. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 88, 7101-5.
41. WHITING, A., WARDALE, J. & TRINICK, J. (1989) Does titin regulate the length of thick filaments? J. Mol. Biol. 205, 163-9.