This study maps the spatial locations of the 23 kDa and 50 kDa fragments on the skeletal myosin head using electron microscopy.
Maps skeletal myosin epitopes in animals; leaves open relevance to human cardiac myosin structure or function.
The functional activities of myosin head are located in a 95 kilodalton (kDa) heavy chain which can be divided into three fragments of 23 kDa, 50 kDa, and 20 kDa. ATP hydrolysis sites were suggested to be located in the 23 kDa and 50 kDa fragments, and actin binding sites were in the 50 kDa and 20 kDa fragments. In this study, we obtained electron microscopic images of the myosin molecule bound with antibodies directed to the 23 kDa and 50 kDa fragments. We determined that the antigenic sites for 23 kDa fragment are located at 140-180 A from the head-rod junction of myosin, and those for 50 kDa fragment at 160 A from the junction and at the tip of the head itself. The relationship between the spatial locations and the primary structures is discussed.
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