ISSN:
1750-3841
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
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Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
Changes in activities of actomyosin, acto-heavy meromyosin (acto-HMM), and acto-subfragment-I (acto-S-I) ATPases from tuna and sardine due to heat treatment (20°, 25°, 30°, 35°, 40°C) were compared for ordinary muscle and dark muscle. Activation of ordinary muscle actomyosin Mg-ATPases was more than doubled for tuna and tripled for sardine by heating at 35°C, while activation of dark muscle actomyosin was not observed at any temperature. The occurrence of thermal activation corresponded to a rapid loss of the EDTA-ATPase activity. Activation of hybrid actomyosins from dark and ordinary muscles was dependent upon myosin. For acto-HMM and acto-S-I thermal activation was not observed. The role of myosin tail fragments in thermal activation is discussed.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1989.tb05150.x
