We have investigated the flow birefringence property and assembly process of desmin, a muscle specific intermediate protein. Solution of non-polar desmin filaments showed birefringence when aligned in the sheared flow. The amount of birefringence of desmin filaments was considerably lower when compared with that of F-actin solution. Assembly of desmin from soluble state was followed by the birefringence measurements. At any desmin concentrations examined, the degree of flow birefringence increased rapidly just after the addition of the assembly buffer and reached a saturated level within 30 min. The time to reach half-maximal values of flow birefringence slightly but definitely depended on the initial soluble desmin concentrations. The plotting of the initial velocity of the assembly against the soluble desmin concentrations showed a slope of 1.4. This result suggested that the assembly process detected by flow birefringence measurements followed second-order kinetics, and the process corresponded to the second step of the three stage model for type III intermediate filament assembly proposed by Herrmann and his colleagues; the annealing of unit length filaments into filaments.
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