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  • Title: Isoforms of the small non-catalytic subunit of smooth muscle myosin light chain phosphatase.
    Author: Mabuchi K, Gong BJ, Langsetmo K, Ito M, Nakano T, Tao T.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1999 Oct 12; 1434(2):296-303. PubMed ID: 10525148.
    Abstract:
    Chicken gizzard smooth muscle myosin light chain phosphatase is composed of a approximately 37 kDa catalytic subunit, a approximately 110 kDa myosin binding or targeting subunit and a approximately 20 kDa subunit (MPs) whose function is as yet undefined. It was reported previously that a cloned chicken gizzard MPs cDNA encodes a protein of 186 amino acids (aa) [Y.H. Chen, M.X. Chen, D.R. Alessi, D.G. Gampbell, C. Shanahan, P. Cohen, P.T.W. Cohen, FEBS Lett. 356 (1994) 51-55]. More recently, we obtained by PCR amplification another MPs cDNA that encodes a protein of only 161 aa [Y. Zhang, K. Mabuchi, T. Tao, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1343 (1997) 51-58]. In this work we obtained cDNAs corresponding to both sequences using a different set of PCR primers, indicating that the two sequences correspond to isoforms that most likely arose from alternative splicing of the same gene. Using two polyclonal antibodies, one raised against the recombinant 161 aa isoform of chicken gizzard MPs and the other against a C-terminal polypeptide that is present only in the 186 aa isoform, we found that while the 161 aa isoform is the predominant one in chicken gizzard, in chicken aorta it is the 186 aa one; in chicken stomach both isoforms are present, and in mammalian tissues such as ferret and rat only the 186 aa isoform is detected. Furthermore, we purified the MPs associated with the chicken gizzard myosin light chain phosphatase holoenzyme and determined its molecular weight, amino acid composition and six residues of its C-terminal sequence. The results from these analyses showed conclusively that the predominant isoform in chicken gizzard is the 161 aa one.
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