Abstract
Myosin and myosin light-chain kinase have been isolated and characterized from small quantities of normal and SV40-transformed, murine astrocytic neuroglial cells in culture and from intact normal mouse brain. Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the astrocyte myosins revealed a heavy chain of 200,000 daltons and two light chains of 20,000 and 15,000 daltons. These myosins are similar to other cytyplasmic myosins. The astrocyte 20,000-dalton light chain can be phosphorylated by an endogenous myosin light-chain kinase which has properties similar to those of the myosin light-chain kinase found in human platelets. No differences were detected in either the astrocyte myosins or myosin light-chain kinases between (a) the normal and transformed cells, (b) the transformed cells grown at the permissive and nonpermissive temperatures, or (c) the SV40 wild-type and A-mutant transformants.
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Created | 21 years, 3 months ago (May 14, 2004, 7:04 p.m.) |
Deposited | 2 years, 1 month ago (July 24, 2023, 4:01 a.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year, 10 months ago (Oct. 19, 2023, 9:24 p.m.) |
Issued | 48 years ago (Sept. 1, 1977) |
Published | 48 years ago (Sept. 1, 1977) |
Published Online | 48 years ago (Sept. 1, 1977) |
Published Print | 48 years ago (Sept. 1, 1977) |
@article{Scrodilis_1977, title={Characterization of the myosin-phosphorylating system in normal murine astrocytes and derivative sv40 wild-type and A-mutant transformant.}, volume={74}, ISSN={1540-8140}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.74.3.940}, DOI={10.1083/jcb.74.3.940}, number={3}, journal={The Journal of cell biology}, publisher={Rockefeller University Press}, author={Scrodilis, S P and Anderson, J L and Pollack, R and Adelstein, R S}, year={1977}, month=sep, pages={940–949} }