Nature’s Versatile Engine: Insect Flight Muscle Inside and Out

• Main Author: Vigoreaux, Jim O. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Zoology.; Animal genetics.; Animal physiology.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Life Sciences.; Animal Physiology.; Biochemistry, general.; Cell Biology.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Experimental Insect Flight Systems: Historical Contributions
• The Contributions of Genetics to the Study of Insect Flight Muscle Function
• 3D Structure of Myosin Crossbridges in Insect Flight Muscle
• Comparative Physiology of Insect Flight Muscle
• Stretch Activation
• Components of the Myofibril
• Myosin
• Paramyosin and Miniparamyosin
• Novel Myosin Associated Proteins
• Structure of the Insect Thick Filaments
• Actin and Arthrin
• Troponin, Tropomyosin and GST-2
• The Thin Filament in Insect Flight Muscle
• The Insect Z-Band
• Projectin, the Elastic Protein of the C-Filaments
• Some Functions of Proteins from the Drosophila sallimus (sls) Gene
• Towards a Systems Level Analysis of Muscle
• Sustained High Power Performance
• X-Ray Diffraction of Indirect Flight Muscle from Drosophila in Vivo
• Functional and Ecological Effects of Isoform Variation in Insect Flight Muscle
• Muscle Systems Design and Integration
• Molecular Assays for Acto-Myosin Interactions
• Insect Flight Muscle Chemomechanics
• Mapping Myofibrillar Protein Interactions by Mutational Proteomics.