Two Different Forms of Beta Myosin Heavy Chain Are Expressed in Human Striated Muscle

Overview

Journal Hum Genet

Specialty Genetics

Date 1987 Oct 1

PMID 3653886

Citations 16

Authors

M A Jandreski

M J Sole

C C Liew

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Abstract

We have found evidence for two beta-like myosin heavy chains in humans, one cardiac and one skeletal. The cDNA sequences of the cardiac beta myosin heavy chain cDNA clone pHMC3 and the skeletal beta-like myosin heavy chain cDNA clone pSMHCZ, were compared to each other. It was found that the 3' untranslated regions as well as 482 nucleotides specifying the carboxyl coding region, were 100% homologous. Further examination revealed that the skeletal clone pSMHCZ diverges from the human cardiac beta myosin heavy chain cDNA clone pHMC3 at the 5' end. We present evidence in this report which indicates that the cardiac beta myosin heavy chain mRNA is expressed in skeletal muscle tissues. The human cardiac beta myosin heavy chain cDNA clone, pHMC3, which codes for a portion of the light meromyosin section of the myosin heavy chain, was used as a probe for S1 nuclease mapping studies with RNA derived from cardiac tissue, smooth muscle and skeletal muscle tissues consisting of fast-twitch, slow-twitch and mixed fast- and slow-twitch muscle fibres. Two probes were used to examine the expression of the mRNA. One probe (406 nucleotides) constitutes the 3' untranslated region and a portion of the coding region of the beta cardiac myosin heavy chain cDNA clone, which is 100% homologous to pSMHCZ, the skeletal cDNA clone. The other constitutes the majority of the coding region (1017 nucleotides) of the cardiac clone pHMC3 in which the first 216 nucleotides from the labelled end are 100% homologous to the skeletal clone pSMHCZ. In the soleus muscle, which is rich in slow-twitch type I muscle fibres, the expression of the cardiac beta myosin heavy chain mRNA was very prominent. In gastrocnemius muscle, a mixed fibre muscle, the expression of this mRNA was detected to a lesser degree than that for the soleus muscle. In vastus lateralis and vastus medialis, which consist of predominantly type II, fast-twitch fibres, there were trace amounts of the cardiac beta myosin heavy chain mRNA. When expression of this mRNA was tested in smooth muscle tissue none could be detected.

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