Deficiency of Myo18B in mice results in embryonic lethality with cardiac myofibrillar aberrations
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- 23 September 2008
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Genes to Cells
- Vol. 13 (10), 987-999
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2443.2008.01226.x
Abstract
Myo18B is an unconventional myosin family protein expressed predominantly in muscle cells. Although conventional myosins are known to be localized on the A-bands and function as a molecular motor for muscle contraction, Myo18B protein was localized on the Z-lines of myofibrils in striated muscles. Like Myo18A, another 18th class of myosin, the N-terminal unique domain of the protein and not the motor domain and the coiled-coil tail is critical for its localization to F-actin in myocytes. Myo18B expression was induced by myogenic differentiation through the binding of myocyte-specific enhancer factor-2 to its promoter. Deficiency of Myo18B caused an embryonic lethality in mice accompanied by disruption of myofibrillar structures in cardiac myocytes at embryonic day 10.5. Thus, Myo18B is a unique unconventional myosin that is predominantly expressed in myocytes and whose expression is essential for the development and/or maintenance of myofibrillar structure.Keywords
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