Molecular Models of Averaged Rigor Crossbridges from Tomograms of Insect Flight Muscle
by electron tomography, at 70 A resolution

Entry | |
| Summary | |
| Database / ID | PORTEIN DATA BANK (PDB) / 1m8q |
|---|---|
| Title | Molecular Models of Averaged Rigor Crossbridges from Tomograms of Insect Flight Muscle |
| Descriptor | Chicken Skeletal muscle Myosin II Chicken Skeletal muscle Myosin II Regulatory Light Chain Chicken Skeletal muscle Myosin II Essential Light Chain Rabbit Skeletal muscle Actin |
| Keywords | CONTRACTILE PROTEIN, Actin-myosin complex in situ in muscle |
| Authors | Chen, L.F., Winkler, H., Reedy, M.K., Reedy, M.C., Taylor, K.A. |
| Date | Deposition: 2002-07-25, Release: 2002-09-10 |
| PDBj Mine pages | Summary, Structural Details, Experimental Details, Functional Details |
| Other databases | RCSB-PDB, PDBe, CATH, CE, FSSP, SCOP, VAST |
| Structure Visualization | |
| Movies | Movie Page#1: Depositted structure unit, Made by Jmol |
| Structure viewers | Yorodumi, jV4, Jmol, Biological unit (Images, jV) |
| Related Structure Data | |
| Related Entries |
Cite: data citing same article Fit: target map of fitting |
| Similar strucutres (beta) |
List of similar structure data about Omokage system |
Components | |
| ID 1 : Skeletal muscle Myosin II | |
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| Description | Skeletal muscle Myosin II |
| Type | polymer |
| Formula weight | 96626.203 Da |
| Number of molecules | 4 |
| Source | Method: Isolated from a natural source Common name: chicken Details: Organism from which the myosin for the crystal structure that provided 2MYS was obtained Genus: Gallus NCBI taxonomy: ID:9031Organism scientific: Gallus gallus |
| Links | UniProt: P13538, Sequence view |
| ID 2 : Skeletal muscle Myosin II Regulatory Light Chain | |
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| Description | Skeletal muscle Myosin II Regulatory Light Chain |
| Type | polymer |
| Formula weight | 16063.167 Da |
| Number of molecules | 4 |
| Source | Method: Isolated from a natural source Common name: chicken Details: Organism from which the myosin for the crystal structure that provided 2MYS was obtained Genus: Gallus NCBI taxonomy: ID:9031Organism scientific: Gallus gallus |
| Links | UniProt: P02609, Sequence view |
| ID 3 : Skeletal muscle Myosin II Essential Light Chain | |
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| Description | Skeletal muscle Myosin II Essential Light Chain |
| Type | polymer |
| Formula weight | 16064.055 Da |
| Number of molecules | 4 |
| Source | Method: Isolated from a natural source Common name: chicken Details: Organism from which the Myosin for the crystal structure that provided 2MYS was obtained Genus: Gallus NCBI taxonomy: ID:9031Organism scientific: Gallus gallus |
| Links | UniProt: P02604, Sequence view |
| ID 4 : Skeletal muscle Actin | |
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| Description | Skeletal muscle Actin |
| Type | polymer |
| Formula weight | 41862.965 Da |
| Number of molecules | 14 |
| Source | Method: Isolated from a natural source Common name: rabbit Details: Organism from which the Actin that provided the crystal structure for 1ATN was obtained Genus: Oryctolagus NCBI taxonomy: ID:9986Organism scientific: Oryctolagus cuniculus |
| Links | UniProt: P68135, Sequence view |
Sample | |
| Assembly | |
| Aggregation state | TISSUE |
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| Details | Dorsal longitudinal flight muscles of the large waterbug, Lethocerus maximus were glycerinated in the dissected thorax and stored at -20 degrees C. Fixation involved sequential tannic acid-glutaraldehyde (0.2% and 2%), cold 1% OsO4 at pH 6.0, 1% uranyl acetate block staining and Araldite 506 emgedding. Thin sections were stained with a sequence of permanganate and lead. Section were ~25 nm thick. |
| Name | Insect flight muscle |
| Entity assembly | |
| Details | Models are built to fit the thin, actin containing filaments labeled with endogenous myosin in the rigor state |
| Name | Insect flight muscle of the large water bug Lethocerus maximus |
| Experiment | |
| Reconstruction method | TOMOGRAPHY |
| Specimen type | FREEZE SUBSTITUTION |
| Vitrification | |
| Details | No vitrification. Samples were viewed at room temperature. |
Electron Microscopy | |
| Detector | |
| Type | Kodak S0163 Film |
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| Image scans | |
| Number digital images | 36 |
Processing | |
| 2D projection selection | |
| Software name | RSref |
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| 3D reconstruction | |
| CTF correction method | none |
| Details | 3-D motifs were identified in the tomogram by first producing a cross correlation map from which peak coordinates were determined from their center of gravity. We define a 3-D motif as one, entire 38.7 nm crossbridge repeat along actin. These motifs usually contain at least four myosin heads in two paired crossbridges (single chevrons) and sometimes contain as many as six myosin heads in four paired crossbridges (double chevrons). The reference for the analysis was selected to be centered between successive troponin densities which could be identified from the in-plane projection. The individual crossbridge motifs were then subjected to multivariate statistical analysis to identify clusters of motifs showing similar crossbridge structure. These clusters formed the class averages. The choice of structure to be classified was decided by the resolution and the later process of model building. Averaging was done according to the heirarchical ascendent method. The resolution in each of the class averages was 7 nm by the spectral signal to noise ratio. |
| Magnification calibration | Indicated instrument magnification |
| Method | Dual axis tilt series electron tomography |
| Nominal pixel size | 15.5 A/pix |
| Resolution | 70 A |
| 3D fitting | |
| Method | Initial models were fit by hand using "O". The fit was then refined using real space refinement. |
| Refinement Protocol | rigid body |
| Refinement Space | REAL |
| Software name | RSref |
| Target criteria | Best correlation coefficient and fewest poor contacts |
| Refine hist | |
| Total atoms | 76872 |
| Protein atoms | 76872 |
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| All | pdb1m8q.ent.gz pdb1m8q.ent (uncompressed file) | ||
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| Header only | pdb1m8q.ent.gz | ||
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| mmCIF | 1m8q.cif.gz | ||
| XML format | |||
| All | 1m8q.xml.gz | ||
| No-atom | 1m8q-noatom.xml.gz | ||
| Ext-atom | 1m8q-extatom.xml.gz | ||
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