Differential synthesis by cultured atrial and ventricular rat cardiac myocytes of myosin light chain isoforms |
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Authors: | T Brand H Milting M Zippel H Jockusch |
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Institution: | MPI für Physiologische und Klinische Forschung, Abteilung Experimentelle Kardiologie, Bad Nauheim, Germany. |
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Abstract: | Dissociated cells from neonatal rat atria and ventricles were cultured in monolayers for 3 days. Newly synthesized 35S-methionine labeled myosin light chain isoforms ALC-1, ALC-2 (atrial) and VLC-1, VLC-2 (ventricular) were identified on 2D gels, and their pattern of synthesis was compared to that of myocard fragments immediately after explanation. ALCs were synthesized in 5- to 10-fold excess over VLCs by atrial cultures, whereas the converse was true for ventricular cultures, with two exceptions: one third of the LC-1 synthesized by ventricular fragments was ALC-1, and dissociated atrial cells synthesized very little LC-2 of either isoform. The former finding corresponds to the relatively high proportion of ALC-1 in neonatal ventricular tissue. We conclude that the regional programme of LC isoform expression is basically retained after tissue explantation and even after dissociation and culturing of cardiac myocytes. |
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