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Biophysical Journal 43: 335-343 (1983)
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X-ray structure analysis of thin filaments of a molluscan smooth muscle in the living relaxed state.

Y Tajima, K Kamiya and T Seto

ABSTRACT

In the small-angle x-ray diffraction pattern of the living relaxed anterior byssus retractor muscle of Mytilus edulis, the thin filaments showed the following features. The 59.8-A reflection was much stronger and a little farther from the meridian than the 51.9-A reflection, although they are both contributions of the first-order Bessel function and are comparable with each other in the height from the equator. The 381-A reflection, given by the second-order Bessel function, was weaker than the 59.8-A reflection by more than the difference between the peak values of the first- and second-order Bessel functions, and was not so distant radially from the latter as estimated from the amount of peak shift brought about by the alteration of the Bessel order. A model of the thin filament was made on the basis of inverse Fourier transformation of the scattering amplitude, and the above features were explained by the characteristic shape of actin shown in this model. The actin subunits are elongated along the genetic left-hand helix with a pitch of 59.8 A, and are bonded together along the genetic helix in the inner part of the filament.




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