Title Nature's versatile engine : insect flight muscle inside and out / Jim O. Vigoreaux

Published Georgetown, Tex. : Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com ; New York, N.Y. : Springer Science+Business Media, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Molecular biology intelligence unit Molecular biology intelligence unit (Unnumbered) Contents Sect. I. Experimental insect flight systems : historical contributions -- 1. The contributions of genetics to the study of insect flight muscle function / Richard M. Cripps -- 2. 3D structure to myosin crossbridges in insect flight muscle : toward visualization of the conformations during myosin motor action / Mary C. Reedy -- 3. Comparative physiology of insect flight muscle / Robert K. Josephson -- 4. Stretch activation : toward a molecular mechanism / Jeffrey R. Moore -- Sect. II. Components of the myofibril -- 5. Myosin / Becky M. Miller and Sanford I. Bernstein -- 6. Paramyosin and miniparamyosin / Margarita Cervera, Juan Jose Arredondo and Raqual Marco Ferreres -- 7. Novel myosin associated proteins / Byron Barton and Jim O. Vigoreaux -- 8. Structure of the insect thick filaments / Gernot Beinbrech and Gereon Ader -- 9. Action and arthrin / John C. Sparrow -- 10. Troponin, tropomyosin and GST-2 / Alberto Ferrus -- 11. The thin filament in insect flight muscle / Kevin R. Leonard and Belinda Bullard -- 12. The insect Z-band / Judith D. Saide -- 13. Projectin, the elastic protein of the C-filaments / Agnes Ayme-Southgate and Richard Southgate -- 14. Some functions of proteins from the Drosophila sallimus (sls) gene / Belinda Bullard, Mark C. Leake and Kevin Leonard -- Sect. III. Towards a systems level analysis of muscle -- 15. Sustained high power performance : possible strategies for integrating energy supply and demand in flight-muscle / Vivek Vishnudas and Jim O. Vigoreaux -- 16. X-ray diffraction of indirect flight muscle from Drosophila in vivo / Thomas C. Irving -- 17. Functional and ecological effects of isoform variation in insect flight muscle / James H. Marden -- 18. Muscle systems design and integration / Fritz-Olaf Lehmann -- 19. Molecular assays for acto-myosin interactions / John C. Sparrow and Michael A. Geeves -- 20. Insect flight muscle chemomechanics / David Maughan and Douglas Swank -- 21. Mapping myofibrillar protein interactions by mutational proteomics / Joshua A. Henkin and Jim O. Vigoreaux Summary Methods for Obtaining X-Ray Diffraction Patterns from Drosophila 198 Diffraction Patterns from Drosophila IFM 203 Concluding Remarks 211 Note Added in Proof 211 17. Functional and Ecological Effects of Isoform Variation in Insect Flight Muscle 214 James H. Marden Abstract 214 Introduction 215 Nature's Versatile Engine 215 The Underlying Genetics: An Underinflated Genome and a Hyperinflated Transcriptome and Proteome 216 Functional Effects of Isoform Variation 219 Alternative Splicing and the Generation of Combinatorial Complexity 220 Functional Consequences of Naturally Occurring Isoform Variation 220 18. Muscle Systems Design and Integration 230 Fritz- OlafLehmann Abstract 230 Power Requirements for Flight 230 Power Reduction 233 Power Constraints on Steering Capacity 234 Balancing Power and Control 236 Changes in Muscle Efficiency in Vivo 238 Concluding Remarks 239 From the Inside Out 19. Molecular Assays for Acto-Myosin Interactions 242 John C. Sparrow and Michael A. Geeves Abstract 242 Introduction 242 Myosin Purification and Preparation of the SI Fragment 243 Purification of Flight Muscle Actin 244 Assays of Myosin and Acto-Myosin 244 Major Conclusions Relating to the Enzymatic Properties of Insect Flight Muscle Acto-Myosin 247 Major Questions about Insect Flight Muscle Acto-Myosin Kinetics That Remain 249 20 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references In Springer e-books Subject Insects -- Flight -- Physiological aspects. Wings (Anatomy) -- Muscles -- Physiology Muscle proteins. Insecta -- physiology Muscle Contraction -- physiology Flight, Animal -- physiology Muscle Proteins Muscle, Skeletal -- anatomy & histology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical. Insects -- Physiology. Muscle Contraction -- physiology. Flight, Animal -- physiology. Muscle proteins. Muscle, Skeletal -- anatomy & histology. Insectes -- Vol -- Aspect physiologique. Ailes (Zoologie) -- Muscles -- Physiologie. Insects -- Flight -- Physiological aspects. Wings -- Muscles -- Physiology. Biomédecine. Sciences de la vie. Muscle proteins Insects -- Flight -- Physiological aspects Form Electronic book ISBN 0387257985 9780387257983 1423735153 9781423735151 9780387312132 0387312137

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