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PMID:10669599

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Kolmerer, B, Clayton, J, Benes, V, Allen, T, Ferguson, C, Leonard, K, Weber, U, Knekt, M, Ansorge, W, Labeit, S and Bullard, B (2000) Sequence and expression of the kettin gene in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans. J. Mol. Biol. 296:435-48

Abstract

Kettin is a large modular protein associated with thin filaments in the Z-disc region of insect muscles. The sequence of a 21.3 kb contig of the Drosophila gene has been determined. The corresponding protein sequence has 35 immunoglobulin-like (Ig) domains which are separated by shorter linker sequences, except near the N and C termini of the molecule where linker sequences are short or missing. This confirms a model in which each Ig domain binds to an actin protomer. The Drosophila kettin gene is at 62C 1-3 on the third chromosome. Two P-element insertions, l(3)j1D7 and l(3)rL182 are in the kettin gene, and complementation tests showed that existing l(3)dre8 mutations are in the same gene. The RNA was detected in wild-type Drosophila embryos at stage 11, first in the gut invagination region of the mesoderm, and by stage 13 in both visceral and somatic mesoderm. Somatic mesoderm expression became segmental at stage 13. RNA expression was greatly reduced in embryos of P-element homozygotes but normal in heterozygotes. The structure of the flight muscle in all the heterozygous mutants was normal, including the myofibril-cuticle connections, and they were able to fly. Kettin sequence homologous to the Drosophila protein, was identified in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome database. The RNA was detected in pharyngeal, body wall and anal depressor muscles of larvae and adult worms, as well as in the male gonad. Antibody to insect kettin labelled the pharyngeal, body wall, anal depressor and proximal gonadal muscles in adult worms. Body wall muscles were labelled in an obliquely striated pattern consistent with the Z-disc localisation in insect muscle. The relationship of kettin to D-titin, which has been assigned to the same chromosomal locus in Drosophila, is discussed.

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PubMed Online version:10.1006/jmbi.1999.3461

Keywords

Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics; Caenorhabditis elegans/growth & development; Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolism; Cloning, Molecular; Disorders of Sex Development; Drosophila Proteins; Drosophila melanogaster/embryology; Drosophila melanogaster/genetics; Flight, Animal; Fluorescent Antibody Technique; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; Genetic Complementation Test; Genotype; Immunoglobulins/chemistry; Insect Proteins/chemistry; Insect Proteins/genetics; Insect Proteins/metabolism; Larva/genetics; Larva/metabolism; Male; Mesoderm/metabolism; Molecular Sequence Data; Muscle Proteins/chemistry; Muscle Proteins/genetics; Muscle Proteins/metabolism; Muscles/cytology; Muscles/metabolism; Muscles/ultrastructure; Mutation/genetics; Physical Chromosome Mapping; Protein Kinases/chemistry; Protein Kinases/genetics; RNA, Messenger/analysis; RNA, Messenger/genetics; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

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