Redistribution of intermediate filament subunits during skeletal myogenesis and maturation in vitro

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The distribution of intermediate filament (IF) subunits during maturation of skeletal myotubes in vitro was examined by immunofluorescence, using antibodies against two different types of chick IF subunits: (a) 58-kdalton subunits of fibroblasts (anti-58K), and (b) 55-kdalton subunits of smooth muscle (anti-55K). Anti-58K bound to a filament network in replicating presumptive myoblasts and fibroblasts, as well as in immature myotubes. The distribution in immature myotubes was in longitudinal filaments throughout the cytoplasm. With maturation, staining of myotubes by anti-58K diminished and eventually disappeared. Anti-55K selectively stained myotubes, and the fluorescence localization underwent a drastic change in distribution with maturation - from dense, longitudinal filaments in immature myotubes to a cross-striated distribution in mature myotubes that was associated with the I-Z region of myofibrils. However, the emergence of a cross-striated anti-55K pattern did not coincide temporally with the emergence of striated myofibrils, but occurred over a period of days thereafter.

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Bennett, G. S., Fellini, S. A., Toyama, Y., & Holtzer, H. (1979). Redistribution of intermediate filament subunits during skeletal myogenesis and maturation in vitro. Journal of Cell Biology, 82(2), 577–584. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.82.2.577

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