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Selective isoactin release from cultured embryonic skeletal muscle cells
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Selective isoactin release from cultured embryonic skeletal muscle cells

P Rubenstein, T Ruppert and A Sandra
The Journal of cell biology, Vol.92(1), pp.164-169
01/01/1982
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.92.1.164
PMCID: PMC2112004
PMID: 7056797
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https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.92.1.164View
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Abstract

The culture medium of embryonic quail myoblasts, labeled for 24 h with [35S]L-methionine, was analyzed by two-dimensional gel autoradiography. The major polypeptide observed had a 43,000 molecular weight and an isoelectric point of 5.4. This polypeptide could be specifically adsorbed to DNAse-I Sepharose. A tryptic peptide map of the [35S]methionine-labeled peptides of intracellular actin and the extracellular major polypeptide were virtually identical. These findings identify the released polypeptide as actin. A comparison of two-dimensional gel patterns of intracellular and extracellular labeled polypeptides showed a large number of differences indicating the actin release did not result from general cellular breakdown. The released actin was not filamentous as judged by its behavior during Bio-Gel A-5m chromatography (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Richmond, Calif.) The released actin did not originate solely from contaminating fibroblasts in the culture because actin was also observed in the medium in clonal myoblast cultures and in purified myotube preparations. Finally, the nonmuscle isoactins, as opposed to muscle alpha-isoactin, were released preferentially. These results indicate that within the developing muscle cell where both muscle and nonmuscle specific isoactins are simultaneously present, the different isoactins may be physically or functionally compartmentalized with the nonmuscle isoactins existing primarily at or near the cell surface.

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