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Anti-myosin heavy chain monoclonal antibodies reveal two IIB (fast) fiber subtypes

JF Marini, F Pons, M Anoal, J Leger and JJ Leger

INSERM U6/CNRS URA 142, Marseille, France.

Indirect immunofluorescence analysis of different rat skeletal muscles using anti-myosin heavy chain (MHC) monoclonal antibodies (MAb) revealed the presence of two immunologically distinct kinds of fibers within the IIB fibers, histochemically identified by myosin ATPase staining. Some IIB fibers (designated here as IIB1) were unreactive with one anti-fast MHC MAb, whereas they did react with another anti- fast MHC MAb; other IIB fibers (designated here as IIB2) reacted with both anti-fast MAbs. Neither of the two IIB fiber subtypes was significantly reactive with a neonatal MHC MAb. The number of each IIB fiber subtype was age-dependent, at least in the plantaris muscle. IIB1 fibers were observed only in the superficial portion of the plantaris and gastrocnemius muscle. The ratio of IIB1:IIB2 fibers was about the same throughout the extensor digitorum longus and extraocular muscles. Therefore, the two kinds of IIB fibers here observed have a different myosin heavy chain content. On the basis of their specific immunoreactivities, we suggest that IIB1 fibers contain the previously described MHCB. IIB2 fibers contain either a unique new MHC isoform or a mixture of at least two MHC, possibly composed of the MHCB and either the previously described MHCA or a new MHC isoform.

Volume 37, Issue 11, pp. 1721-1729, 11/01/1989
Copyright © 1989 by The Histochemical Society


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