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M Y Fiszman

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Potential phasic and tonic muscles express a common set of fast and slow myosin light chains and fast tropomyosin during early development of chick embryo.

We investigated the expression of myosin light chains and tropomyosin subunits during chick embryonic development of the anterior (ALD) and posterior (PLD) parts of the latissimus dorsi muscles. As early as day 8 in ovo, both muscles accumulate a common set of myosin light chains (LC) in similar ratios (LC1F: 55 per cent; LC2S: 25 per cent; LC2F: 12 per cent; LC1S: 8 per cent) and a common set of tropomyosin (TM) subunits (beta 2, beta 1, alpha 2F). Later during development, the slow components of the LC regularly disappear in the PLD and the fast components of the LC and the alpha 2FTM disappear in the ALD, so that the adult pattern is almost established at the time of hatching. Thus, early in development, the two muscles accumulate a common set of fast and slow myosin light chains and fast tropomyosin and some isoforms are repressed at a later stage during development. These data might suggest that during development, the regulatory mechanisms of muscle specific isoform expression differ from one contractile protein to another.

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Cardiac myosin binding protein C gene is specifically expressed in heart during murine and human development.

Cardiac myosin binding protein C (MyBP-C) is a substantial component of the sarcomere, with both structural and regulatory roles. The gene encoding cardiac MyBP-C in humans is located on chromosome 11p11.2, and mutations that are most predicted to produce truncated proteins have been identified in this gene in unrelated families with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC). To understand better the pathophysiology of FHC and with a view to the development of animal models for this disease, we have investigated by in situ hybridization the pattern of expression of the cardiac MyBP-C gene during human and mouse development using species-specific oligonucleotide probes. From 4 weeks of human development, a strong labeling of cardiac MyBP-C mRNAs was unambiguously detected in all heart compartments, and no signal could be visualized in somites. In murine embryos, from embryonic day 9.5 until birth, a strong signal was detected exclusively in the heart. Our results showed that during both human and murine development, in contrast to chicken development, the cardiac MyBP-C gene is abundantly and specifically expressed in the heart.

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