This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing theresources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject andinvestigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source,and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed isfor the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator.Our program combines & compares X-ray diffraction (glycerinated native fibers) and thin-section EM tomography (fibers quick-frozen & freeze-substituted) to characterize structure, arrangement and dynamic choreography of myosin crossbridges (motor molecules of muscle) in a waterbug insect flight muscle (IFM) of unexcelled crystalline regularity. All X-ray experiments proposed will, whenever revealing, be matched by parallel EM experiments on fibers quick-frozen during the same state or maneuver, to directly image the structural changes. (IFM gives the clearest EM images of myosin crossbridges of any muscle.) X-ray patterns from IFM differ in important ways from those of other striated muscles (frog skeletal) studied by XRD, owing to differences in filament lattice packing, in thick filament helical geometry, and a full-overlap sarcomere scheme limited to ~3% length changes. X-ray reflections (to ~5 nm) attributable to myosin filaments, actin filaments, and both jointly, are as well worked out as in frog muscle, but not yet so well studied in dynamic (contraction) states. Thanks to the beam quality, intensity and detector systems at the APS, much of the catch-up with frog muscle studies can be done in 2-4 years. The present proposal is to continue our novel recent work on crossbridge braking actions.The purpose of this rapid access proposal is to evaluate freezing conditions that can enhance sample lifetime so that much higher resolution diffraction patterns can be obtained from small specimens before radiation damage sets in. Because of the weakness of the diffraction from the muscle system this study must be done on a synchrtrron source. As far as we know this has not been successfully achieved in muscle before and may be expected to lead to novel findings.
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