Nature's Versatile Engine: (eBook)

Insect Flight Muscle Inside and Out

JIM VIGOREAUX (Herausgeber)

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2007
XXII, 288 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-31213-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Methods for Obtaining X-Ray Diffraction Patterns from Drosophila 198 Diffraction Patterns from Drosophila IFM 203 Concluding Remarks 211 Note Added in Proof 211 17. Functional and Ecological Effects of Isoform Variation in Insect Flight Muscle 214 James H. Marden Abstract 214 Introduction 215 Nature's Versatile Engine 215 The Underlying Genetics: An Underinflated Genome and a Hyperinflated Transcriptome and Proteome 216 Functional Effects of Isoform Variation 219 Alternative Splicing and the Generation of Combinatorial Complexity 220 Functional Consequences of Naturally Occurring Isoform Variation 220 18. Muscle Systems Design and Integration 230 Fritz- OlafLehmann Abstract 230 Power Requirements for Flight 230 Power Reduction 233 Power Constraints on Steering Capacity 234 Balancing Power and Control 236 Changes in Muscle Efficiency in Vivo 238 Concluding Remarks 239 From the Inside Out 19. Molecular Assays for Acto-Myosin Interactions 242 John C. Sparrow and Michael A. Geeves Abstract 242 Introduction 242 Myosin Purification and Preparation of the SI Fragment 243 Purification of Flight Muscle Actin 244 Assays of Myosin and Acto-Myosin 244 Major Conclusions Relating to the Enzymatic Properties of Insect Flight Muscle Acto-Myosin 247 Major Questions about Insect Flight Muscle Acto-Myosin Kinetics That Remain 249 20.

Inhalt

CONTENTS 5
EDITOR 11
CONTRIBUTORS 11
PREFACE 20
Experimental Insect Flight Systems: Historical Contributions 22
The Contributions of Genetics to the Study of Insect Flight Muscle Function 23
3D Structure of Myosin Crossbridges in Insect Flight Muscle: Toward Visualization of the Conformations during Myosin Motor Action 37
Comparative Physiology of Insect Flight Muscle 55
Stretch Activation: Toward a Molecular Mechanism 65
Components of the Myofibril 82
Myosin 83
Paramyosin and Miniparamyosin 97
Novel Myosin Associated Proteins 107
Structure of the Insect Thick Filaments 118
Actin and Arthrin 131
Troponin, Tropomyosin and GST-2 147
The Thin Filament in Insect Flight Muscle 162
The Insect Z-Band 171
Projectin, the Elastic Protein of the C- Filaments 188
Some Functions of Proteins from the Drosophila sallimus (sls) Gene 198
Towards a Systems Level Analysis of Muscle 208
Sustained High Power Performance: Possible Strategies for Integrating Energy Supply and Demand in Flight Muscle 209
X- Ray Diffraction of Indirect Flight Muscle from Drosophila in Vivo 218
Functional and Ecological Meets of Isoform Variation in Insect Flight Muscle 235
Muscle Systems Design and Integration 251
Molecular Assays for Acto- Myosin Interactions 263
Insect Flight Muscle Chemomechanics 272
Mapping Myofibrillar Protein Interactions by Mutational Proteomics 291
Index 305

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit
• Reihe/Serie: Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit
• Zusatzinfo: XXII, 288 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zellbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Biophysics • enzymes • genes • Physiology • proteins • Proteomics • X-Ray
• ISBN-10: 0-387-31213-7 / 0387312137
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-31213-2 / 9780387312132