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  • Calcium regulation Frog Sartorius muscle Skeletal muscle Synchrotron radiation Tropomyosin Twitch Two-dimensional X-ray diffraction  (1)
  • Genetics  (1)
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    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Keywords: Calcium regulation Frog Sartorius muscle Skeletal muscle Synchrotron radiation Tropomyosin Twitch Two-dimensional X-ray diffraction
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. In twitch contractions of frog skeletal muscle, the isometric tension peaks when intracellular calcium has fallen to near-resting levels. To understand the mechanism of this delayed tension maintenance in the context of calcium regulation, the time course of the tropomyosin movement on actin was monitored by recording the intensity of the 2nd actin layer lines in a time-resolved two-dimensional X-ray diffraction study. The intensity rose ahead of tension, reflecting the tropomyosin movement from its "off" to "on" positions, but it fell with a time course similar to that of tension. Muscle shortening applied at the tension peak was followed by a poor recovery of tension, and accelerated the fall of the reflection intensity. The results suggest that the force-generating myosin heads retain the tropomyosin in its "on" position after the fall of intracellular calcium, and their shortening-induced detachment makes the tropomyosin return to its "off" position, thereby preventing myosin reattachment to actin.
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    ISSN: 1432-5233
    Keywords: Key words Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus ; MODY ; Hepatocyte nuclear factor-1α ; Genetics ; Microsatellite polymorphism
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Recently, hepatocyte nuclear factor-1α (HNF-1α, which is encoded by the TCF1 gene) mutations were reported in a subset of patients with maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY3). We studied the contribution of TCF1 to genetic susceptibility to common non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (type 2) in Japanese subjects by investigating allelic association with type 2 diabetes use of three markers. We also studied the frequency of the G191D mutation, the only mutation of TCF1 reported so far in late-onset type 2 diabetes. A total of 356 subjects were studied. There were no significant differences in allele frequency of the three markers between patients with type 2 diabetes and control subjects. A G191D mutation was not found in the subjects studied, giving a frequency of less than 0.4% in common type 2 diabetes. The lack of association of type 2 diabetes with three markers in and near TCF1 suggests that mutations in TCF1 derived from a limited number of founders are not a major cause of common type 2 diabetes even in the genetically homogeneous Japanese population. The data also indicate that the G191D mutation in TCF1 plays little, if any, role in susceptibility to common type 2 diabetes in the Japanese.
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