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Abstract
Recombinant plasmids have been isolated which contain sequences complementary to two distinct alpha-tropomyosin mRNA species present in chicken leg muscle. The proteins coded for by these different mRNAs could be distinguished by their electrophoretic behaviour in the presence of 3.5 M urea. The properties of the minor alpha-tropomyosin of chicken leg muscle were similar to those reported for the alpha-tropomyosin of slow twitch chicken skeletal muscle. Sequence analysis of available plasmids showed that the deduced protein sequences of both types of alpha-tropomyosin were very similar and closely related to the known protein sequence of rabbit alpha-tropomyosin. However considerable variation in nucleotide coding sequence of the two alpha-tropomyosin mRNAs was found.Entities:
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Year: 1982 PMID: 7128591 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1982.tb06778.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Biochem ISSN: 0014-2956