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Biophysical Journal 73: 1763-1770 (1997)
© 1997 the Biophysical Society
Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254-9110, USA.
ABSTRACT
New features of the structure and interactions of troponin T and tropomyosin have been revealed by electron microscopy of so-called double-diamond co-crystals. These co-crystals were formed using rabbit alpha2 tropomyosin complexed with troponin T from either skeletal or cardiac muscle, which have different lengths in the amino-terminal region, as well as a bacterially expressed skeletal muscle troponin T fragment of 190 residues that lacks the amino-terminal region. Differences in the images of the co-crystals have allowed us to establish the polarities of both the troponin T subunit and tropomyosin in the projected lattice. Moreover, in agreement with their sequences, the amino-terminal region of a bovine cardiac muscle troponin T isoform appears to be longer than that from the rabbit skeletal muscle troponin T isoform and to span more of the amino terminus of tropomyosin at the head-to-tail filament joints. Images of crystals tilted relative to the electron beam also reveal the supercoiling of the tropomyosin filaments in this lattice. Based on these results, a three-dimensional model of the double-diamond lattice has been constructed.
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