Research Article 1841 Interactions with titin and myomesin target obscurin and obscurin-like 1 to the M-band – implications for hereditary myopathies Atsushi Fukuzawa1,*, Stephan Lange1,*,‡, Mark Holt1, Anna Vihola2, Virginie Carmignac3,4,§, Ana Ferreiro3,4, Bjarne Udd2,5 and Mathias Gautel1,¶ 1Kingʼs College London, The Randall Division for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, and Cardiovascular Division, New Huntʼs House, London SE1 1UL, UK 2The Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics and Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Biomedicum, Helsinki, Finland 3INSERM, U582, Institut de Myologie, Paris, France 4Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France 5Department of Neurology, Vasa Central Hospital, Vasa, Finland *These authors contributed equally to this work ‡Current address: Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, USA §Current address: Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Sweden ¶Author for correspondence (e-mail:
[email protected]) Accepted 11 March 2008 Journal of Cell Science 121, 1841-1851 Published by The Company of Biologists 2008 doi:10.1242/jcs.028019 Summary Obscurin, a giant modular muscle protein implicated in G- does overexpression of the binding sites on either myomesin, protein and protein-kinase signalling, can localize to both obscurin or Obsl1. Furthermore, all titin mutations that have sarcomeric Z-disks and M-bands. Interaction of obscurin with been linked to limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2J (LGMD2J) the Z-disk is mediated by Z-disk titin. Here, we unravel the or Salih myopathy weaken or abrogate titin-obscurin and titin- molecular basis for the unusual localization of obscurin, a Z- Obsl1 binding, and lead to obscurin mislocalization, suggesting disk-associated protein, to the M-band, where its invertebrate that interference with the interaction of these proteins might analogue UNC-89 is also localized.