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. 1988 Apr 1;106(4):1161–1170. doi: 10.1083/jcb.106.4.1161

Intracellular targeting of isoproteins in muscle cytoarchitecture

PMCID: PMC2115002  PMID: 3283147

Abstract

Part of the muscle creatine kinase (MM-CK) in skeletal muscle of chicken is localized in the M-band of myofibrils, while chicken heart cells containing myofibrils and BB-CK, but not expressing MM-CK, do not show this association. The specificity of the MM-CK interaction was tested using cultured chicken heart cells as "living test tubes" by microinjection of in vitro generated MM-CK and hybrid M-CK/B-CK mRNA with SP6 RNA polymerase. The resulting translation products were detected in injected cells with isoprotein-specific antibodies. M-CK molecules and translation products of chimeric cDNA molecules containing the head half of the B-CK and the tail half of the M-CK coding regions were localized in the M-band of the myofibrils. The tail, but not the head portion of M-CK is essential for the association of M-CK with the M-band of myofibrils. We conclude that gross biochemical properties do not always coincide with a molecule's specific functions like the participation in cell cytoarchitecture which may depend on molecular targeting even within the same cellular compartment.

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