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  • Title: Structural proteins of dogfish skeletal muscle.
    Author: Malencik DA, Heizmann CW, Fischer EH.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1975 Feb 25; 14(4):715-21. PubMed ID: 123158.
    Abstract:
    As part of a study on the evolutionary aspects of control mechanisms, a number of structural muscle components from the Pacific dogfish (Squalus acanthias) are described. These include troponin, tropomyosin, actin, and myosin. Troponin (mol wt 108.000) was resolved into its constitutive subunits, repeated by a 20,500 mol wt fragment which binds 2 mol of Ca2+/mol with a KDiss of 0.91 mum, and an inhibitory component of 30,000 and a 58,000 component which are necessary for the calcium sensitivity of actomyosin ATPase. Tropomyosin and actin share many properties with their counterparts from higher vertebrates. Proteins similar to parvalbumins, i.e., the low molecular weight calcium-binding proteins widely distributed in fish, amphibians, and mammalian muscle, could be generated from troponin and its calcium-binding subunit by limited proteolysis. The appearance of immunological cross-reactivity and other similar features suggested some identity, but differences in the amino acid analysis exclude the possiblity that parvalbumins occur as breakdown products of troponin. The close relationship between parvalbumins and the calcium-binding subunit brings additional evidence that these proteins have arisen through divergent evolution.
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