The proteins in the Z line of insect flight muscle
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 161 (2) , 399-403
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1610399
Abstract
Z discs were isolated from Lethocerus flight muscle by removing the contractile proteins from myofibrils with a solution of high ionic strength. The protein composition of the Z discs was analysed by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis; the major proteins were alpha-actinin, actin and tropomyosin. Z lines were selectively removed from intact myofibrils by digestion with crude lipase and chymotrypsin, but not by purified lipase.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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