Myosin in adult and neonatal human erythrocyte membranes
LM Matovcik, U Groschel-Stewart and SL Schrier
The heavy chain of myosin can be detected in human red cell membranes by
immunoblot analysis with antiplatelet myosin antibodies. Neonatal red cell
membranes have more immunoreactive myosin than adult membranes. Membranes
from young adult red cells contain more immunoreactive myosin than
membranes from old adult red cells. In contrast, young and old neonatal red
cells have equivalent mounts of myosin. Erythrocyte myosin is present in a
membrane fraction enriched in integral membrane proteins but is not found
in cytoskeletal preparations.
Volume 67,
Issue 6,
pp. 1668-1674,
06/01/1986
Copyright © 1986 by The American Society of Hematology