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Ank1.5 is a muscle-specific isoform of ankyrin1 localized on the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membrane that has been shown
to interact with obscurin, a sarcomeric protein. We report here studies on the localization of obscurin and ank1.5 in embryonic
and postnatal rodent skeletal muscles. Using two antibodies against epitopes in the N- and C-terminus of obscurin, two distinct
patterns of localization were observed. Before birth, the antibodies against the N- and the C-terminus of obscurin stained
the Z-disk and M-band, respectively. At the same time, ank1.5 was detected at the Z-disk, rising the possibility that obscurin
molecules at M-band may not be able to interact with ank1.5. Localization of ank1.5 at Z-disks in E14 muscle fibers revealed
that ank1.5 is among the earliest SR proteins to assemble, since its organization preceded that of other SR proteins, like
SERCA and RyR. After birth, the antibody against the N-terminus of obscurin stained the M-band while that against the C-terminus
stained both M-bands and the Z-disks. Starting from postnatal day 1, ank1.5 was found at the level of both M-bands and Z-disks.
Altogether, from these results we infer that exposure of some obscurin epitopes changes during skeletal muscle development,
resulting in distinct, antibody-specific, localization pattern. Why this occurs is not clear, yet these data indicate that
the organization of obscurin at different locations in the sarcomere changes during muscle development and that this might
affect the interaction with ank1.5. 相似文献
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Essential role of obscurin in cardiac myofibrillogenesis and hypertrophic response: evidence from small interfering RNA-mediated gene silencing 总被引:5,自引:5,他引:0
Borisov AB Sutter SB Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos A Bloch RJ Westfall MV Russell MW 《Histochemistry and cell biology》2006,125(3):227-238
Obscurin is a recently identified giant multidomain muscle protein (∼800 kDa) whose structural and regulatory functions remain
to be defined. The goal of this study was to examine the effect of obscurin gene silencing induced by RNA interference on
the dynamics of myofibrillogenesis and hypertrophic response to phenylephrine in cultured rat cardiomyocytes. We found that
that the adenoviral transfection of short interfering RNA (siRNA) constructs targeting the first coding exon of obscurin sequence
resulted in progressive depletion of cellular obscurin. Confocal microscopy demonstrated that downregulation of obscurin expression
led to the impaired assembly of new myofibrillar clusters and considerable aberrations of the normal structure of the contractile
apparatus. While the establishment of the initial periodic pattern of α-actinin localization remained mainly unaffected in
siRNA-transfected cells, obscurin depletion did cause the defective lateral alignment of myofibrillar bundles, leading to
their abnormal bifurcation, dispersal and multiple branching. Bending of immature myofibrils, apparently associated with the
loss of their rigidity, a modified titin pattern, the absence of well-formed A-bands in newly formed contractile structures
as documented by a diffuse localization of sarcomeric myosin labeling, and an occasional irregular periodicity of sarcomere
spacing were typical of obscurin siRNA-treated cells. These results suggest that obscurin is indispensable for spatial positioning
of contractile proteins and for the structural integration and stabilization of myofibrils, especially at the stage of myosin
filament incorporation and A-band assembly. This demonstrates a vital role for obscurin in myofibrillogenesis and hypertrophic
growth. 相似文献
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Obscurin is a recently identified giant multidomain muscle protein whose functions remain poorly understood. The goal of this
study was to investigate the process of assembly of obscurin into nascent sarcomeres during the transition from non-striated
myofibril precursors to striated structure of differentiating myofibrils in cell cultures of neonatal rat cardiac myocytes.
Double immunofluorescent labeling and high resolution confocal microscopy demonstrated intense incorporation of obscurin in
the areas of transition from non-striated to striated regions on the tips of developing myofibrils and at the sites of lateral
fusion of nascent sarcomere bundles. We found that obscurin rapidly and precisely accumulated in the middle of the A-band
regions of the terminal newly assembled half-sarcomeres in the zones of transition from the continuous, non-striated pattern
of sarcomeric α-actinin distribution to cross-striated structure of laterally expanding nascent Z-discs. The striated pattern
of obscurin typically ended at these points. This occurred before the assembly of morphologically differentiated terminal
Z-discs of the assembling sarcomeres on the tips of growing myofibrils. The presence of obscurin in the areas of the terminal
Z-discs of each new sarcomere was detected at the same time or shortly after complete assembly of sarcomeric structure. Many
non-striated fibers with very low concentration of obscurin were already immunopositive for sarcomeric actin and myosin. This
suggests that obscurin may serve for organization and alignment of myofilaments into the striated pattern. The comparison
of obscurin and titin localization in these areas showed that obscurin assembly into the A-bands occurred soon after or concomitantly
with incorporation of titin. Electron microscopy of growing myofibrils demonstrated intense formation and integration of myosin
filaments into the “open” half-assembled sarcomeres in the areas of the terminal Z–I structures and at the lateral surfaces
of newly formed, terminally located nascent sarcomeres. This process progressed before the assembly of the second-formed,
terminal Z-discs of new sarcomeres and before the development of ultrastructurally detectable mature M-lines that define the
completion of myofibril assembly, which supports the data of immunocytochemical study. Abundant non-aligned sarcomeres in
immature myofibrils located on the growing tips were spatially separated and underwent the transition to the registered, aligned
pattern. The sarcoplasmic reticulum, the organelle known to interact with obscurin, assembled around each new sarcomere. These
results suggest that obscurin is directly involved in the proper positioning and alignment of myofilaments within nascent
sarcomeres and in the establishment of the registered pattern of newly assembled myofibrils and the sarcoplasmic reticulum
at advanced stages of myofibrillogenesis.
This paper is dedicated to the memory of Professor Pavel P. Rumyantsev (1927–1988), a pioneer in studies of cardiac muscle
differentiation, who is a lasting inspiration to all who worked with him. 相似文献
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Orthologous relationship of obscurin and Unc-89: phylogeny of a novel family of tandem myosin light chain kinases 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Myosin light chain kinases (MLCK) are a family of signaling proteins that are required for cytoskeletal remodeling in myocytes. Recently, two novel MLCK proteins, SPEG and obscurin-MLCK, were identified with the unique feature of two tandemly-arranged MLCK domains. In this study, the evolutionary origins of this MLCK subfamily were traced to a probable orthologue of obscurin-MLCK in Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila Unc-89, and the MLCK kinase domains of zebrafish SPEG, zebrafish obscurin-MLCK, and human SPEG were characterized. Phylogenetic analysis of the MLCK domains indicates that the carboxy terminal kinase domains of obscurin-MLCK, SPEG and Unc-89 are more closely related to each other than to the amino terminal kinase domains or to other MLCKs, supporting the assertion that obscurin-MLCK is the vertebrate orthologue of Caenorhabditis elegans Unc-89, a giant multidomain protein that is required for normal myofibril assembly. The apparent lack of an invertebrate orthologue of SPEG and the conserved exon structure of the kinase domains between SPEG and obscurin-MLCK suggests that SPEG arose from obscurin-MLCK by a gene duplication event. The length of the primary amino acid sequence between the immunoglobulin (Ig) domains associated with the MLCK motifs is conserved in obscurin-MLCK, SPEG and C. elegans Unc-89, suggesting that these putative protein interaction domains may target the kinases to highly conserved intracellular sites. The conserved arrangement of the tandem MLCK domains and their relatively restricted expression in striated muscle indicates that further characterization of this novel MLCK subfamily may yield important insights into cardiac and skeletal muscle physiology.Edited by D. Tautz 相似文献
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Bowman AL Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos A Hirsch SS Geisler SB Gonzalez-Serratos H Russell MW Bloch RJ 《FEBS letters》2007,581(8):1549-1554
We used four antibodies to regions of obscurin isoforms A and B, encoded by the obscurin gene, to investigate the location of these proteins in skeletal myofibers at resting and stretched lengths. Obscurin A ( approximately 800 kDa) which was recognized by antibodies generated to the N-terminal, Rho-GEF, and the non-modular C-terminal domain that lacks the kinase-like domains, localizes at the level of the M-band. Obscurin B ( approximately 900 kDa) which has the N-terminal, Rho-GEF, and the C-terminal kinase-like domains, localizes at the level of the A/I junction. Additional isoforms, which lack one or more of these epitopes, are present at the Z-disk and Z/I junction. 相似文献
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Arimura T Matsumoto Y Okazaki O Hayashi T Takahashi M Inagaki N Hinohara K Ashizawa N Yano K Kimura A 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》2007,362(2):281-287
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a cardiac disease characterized by left ventricular hypertrophy with diastolic dysfunction. Molecular genetic studies have revealed that HCM is caused by mutations in genes for sarcomere/Z-band components including titin/connectin and its associate proteins. However, disease-causing mutations can be found in about half of the patients, suggesting that other disease-causing genes remain to be identified. To explore a novel disease gene, we searched for obscurin gene (OBSCN) mutations in HCM patients, because obscurin interacts with titin/connectin. Two linked variants, Arg4344Gln and Ala4484Thr, were identified in a patient and functional analyses demonstrated that Arg4344Gln affected binding of obscurin to Z9-Z10 domains of titin/connectin, whereas Ala4484Thr did not. Myc-tagged obscurin showed that Arg4344Gln impaired obscurin localization to Z-band. These observations suggest that the obscurin abnormality may be involved in the pathogenesis of HCM. 相似文献
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Targeted deletion of the zebrafish obscurin A RhoGEF domain affects heart, skeletal muscle and brain development 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Obscurin is a giant structural and signaling protein that participates in the assembly and structural integrity of striated myofibrils. Previous work has examined the physical interactions between obscurin and other cytoskeletal elements but its in vivo role in cell signaling, including the functions of its RhoGTPase Exchange Factor (RhoGEF) domain have not been characterized. In this study, morpholino antisense oligonucleotides were used to create an in-frame deletion of the active site of the obscurin A RhoGEF domain in order to examine its functions in zebrafish development. Cardiac myocytes in the morphant embryos lacked the intercalated disks that were present in controls by 72 and, in the more severely affected embryos, the contractile filaments were not organized into mature sarcomeres. Neural abnormalities included delay or loss of retinal lamination. Rescue of the phenotype with co-injection of mini-obscurin A expression constructs demonstrated that the observed effects were due to the loss of small GTPase activation by obscurin A. The immature phenotype of the cardiac myocytes and the retinal neuroblasts observed in the morphant embryos suggests that obscurin A-mediated small GTPase signaling promotes tissue-specific cellular differentiation. This is the first demonstration of the importance of the obscurin A-mediated RhoGEF signaling in vertebrate organogenesis and highlights the central role of obscurin A in striated muscle and neural development. 相似文献
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