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. 1967 Jun;103(3):634–640. doi: 10.1042/bj1030634

Isolation of Aulacomya paramyosin

Celia P Milstein 1
PMCID: PMC1270461  PMID: 6049369

Abstract

Tropomyosin A or paramyosin has been isolated from the adductor muscle of Aulacomya magellanica. It has in common with other tropomyosins A the method used for extracting it from adductor muscle, its solubility, facility of crystallization, ammonium sulphate range of precipitation, amino acid composition and behaviour when digested with trypsin. As a particular feature it exhibits an unusual low viscosity for this type of tropomyosin. Its molecular weight, determined by the Archibald approach-to-sedimentation-equilibrium method, is 258000±16000.

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