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Journal of Biochemistry 2005 138(4):519-526; doi:10.1093/jb/mvi152
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© 2005 The Japanese Biochemical Society

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Two Mouse Cofilin Isoforms, Muscle-Type (MCF) and Non–Muscle Type (NMCF), Interact with F-Actin with Different Efficiencies

Kiyoko Nakashima1, Naruki Sato1, Toshifumi Nakagaki1, Hiroshi Abe1, Shoichiro Ono2 and Takashi Obinata1,*

1 The Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiba University, Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522; and 2 the Department of Pathology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81-43-290-2804, Fax: +81-43-290-2807, E-mail: tobinata{at}faculty.chiba-u.jp

Two cofilin isoforms, a muscle-type (MCF) and a non–muscle-type (NMCF), are co-expressed in developing mammalian skeletal and cardiac muscles. To clarify how they are involved in the actin filament dynamics during myofibrillogenesis, we examined their localization in muscle tissues and cultured muscle cells using immunocytochemical methods, and their interaction with F-actin in vitro. NMCF was mostly detected in a diffuse pattern in the cytoplasm but MCF was partly localized to the striated structures in myofibrils. The location of chicken cofilin, a homologue of MCF, in the I-bands of myofibrils was determined by an immunocytochemical method. It is suggested that MCF could be associated with actin filaments in muscle cells more efficiently than NMCF. Using purified recombinant MCF and NMCF, their interaction with F-actin was examined in vitro by a cosedimentation assay method. We observed that MCF was precipitated with F-actin more effectively than NMCF. When MCF and NMCF were simultaneously incubated with F-actin, MCF was preferentially associated with F-actin. MCF and NMCF inhibited the interaction of F-actin with tropomyosin, but the former suppressed the actin-tropomyosin interaction more strongly than the latter. These results suggest that MCF interacts with F-actin with higher affinity than NMCF, and although both of them are involved in the regulation of actin assembly in developing myotubes, the two proteins may play somewhat different roles.


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