| | RedNova News - Science - Postmortem proteolysis is reduced in transgenic mice overexpressing calpastatin1,2 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Moreover, the ability to interpret in vivo data gathered from animal models is restricted because it is not possible to conclude with certainty that a particular measured change results directly from a particular treatment or genotype. |
 | | However, autolysis is not obligatory for -calpain proteolysis (Gottin et al., 2001), and the 76-kDa isoform is not always proteolytically active (Geesink and Koohmaraie, 1999a); therefore, the degradation of desmin was used as an indicator of calpain- mediated postmortem proteolysis. |
 | | This transgenic model has p\otential application for experiments investigating the role of calpain and calpastatin in postmortem proteolysis, as well as research seeking to define the role of calpains and calpastatin in muscle growth and protein turnover in the live animal. |
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