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Query: EC:3.6.4.1 (myosin ATPase)
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Single muscle fibres were isolated by microdissection from freeze-dried samples of rabbit psoas and soleus muscles. The individual fibres were typed according to qualitative histochemical reactions for succinate dehydrogenase or NADH-tetrazolium reductase and for alkaline Ca2+-activated myofibrilla myosin ATPase after acid or alkaline preincubation. Methods are described for electrophoretic analysis by means of polyacrylamide disc electrophoresis in the presence of SDS of total myofibrilla proteins in single fibres after pre-extraction of soluble proteins. Fast-twitch white fibres revealed a myosin light chain pattern characteristic of "fast- type" myosin with three light chains of apparent molecular weights of 22,300 (LC1) 18,400 (LC2) and 16,000 (LC3). Fast-twitch red fibres were indistinguishable in this respect from fast-twist white fibres and showed an identical pattern of myosin light chains. Slow-twitch fibres could be characterized by a myosin light chain pattern typical of myosin of slow-twitch muscles with peptides of the apparent molecular weights of 23,500 (LC1Sa), 23,000 (LC1Sb) and 18,500 (LS2S). Slow-twitch fibres isolated from soleus as well as from psoas muscle were indistinguishable with regard to their myosin light chain patterns, thus suggesting that fibres of the same histochemical type correspond in their myosin light chain patterns irrespective of their origin from different muscles.
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PMID:Myosin light chain patterns of individual fast and slow-twitch fibres of rabbit muscles. 14 18

Whereas dissociation of rabbit skeletal muscle myosin light chains occurs at an increased temperature (25 degrees) and in the absence of divalent cations, reassociation of the myosin oligomer requires a low temperature (4 degrees C) and the presence of divalent cations, thus resulting in the original light to heavy chain stoichiometry. With a 5-10 per cent release of alkali light chains, LC1 and LC3, and a 50 per cent dissociation of the Ca2+ binding light chain, LC2, there is no significant decrease in myosin ATPase activity irrespective of the cation activator, however, there is an approximate 15-20 per cent decrease in actomyosin ATPase activity. With reassociation of the myosin oligomer, actomyosin ATPase activity is partially restored as well as the original number of Ca2+ binding sites.
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PMID:Dissociation and reassociation of rabbit skeletal muscle myosin. 16 9

Actomyosin and myosin were isolated from rat fast muscles, differing in the percentage of fast oxidative glycolytic and fast glycolytic fibres. The dependence of actomyosin ATPase activity from these muscles on the pH corresponds to the previously found dependence of myofibrillar ATPase on the pH, followed histochemically. The myosins isolated from the tensor fascia latae muscle (fast glycolytic) and extensor digitorum longus and tibialis anterior muscles (predominantly fast oxidative glycolytic muscles) differ in the effect of mild acid pre-incubation on myosin ATPase activity. They do not contain the same amount of LC3 and also tryptic peptides of these myosins display a slightly different pattern, as revealed by SDS gel electrophoresis.
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PMID:Comparison of actomyosin and myosin from rat muscles with marked differences in the ratio of fast oxidative glycolytic and fast glycolytic muscle fibres. 621 53