Significant roles of microtubules in mature striated muscle deduced from the correlation between tubulin and its molecular chaperone αB-crystallin in rat muscles

Table 1 Content of αB-crystallin and α-tubulin

Number	Striated muscles	αB-crystallin quantity (ng/μg protein)	α-Tubulin quantity (ng/μg protein)
1	Atrium	15.7 ± 3.3	2.7 ± 0.7
2	Ventricle	15.5 ± 2.7	2.5 ± 1.3
3	Masseter	1.2 ± 0.2**^,a,b	0.8 ± 0.3
4	Tongue	3.0 ± 0.5**^,a,b	1.0 ± 0.5
5	Diaphragm	12.3 ± 2.5**^,c,d,f	0.9 ± 0.5
6	Soleus muscle	31.1 ± 6.7**^,a–f	2.4 ± 1.3
7	Plantaris muscle	2.6 ± 0.4**^,a,b,e,f	0.7 ± 0.3*^,a
8	Gastrocnemius muscle	3.3 ± 0.7**^,a,b,e,f	0.7 ± 0.5
9	EDL muscle	1.6 ± 0.4**^,a,b,e,f	0.6 ± 0.3*^,a
10	TA muscle	1.2 ± 0.5**^,a,b,e,f	0.3 ± 0.2^,*^,a,b,f
11	Psoas muscle	1.3 ± 0.4**^,a,b,e,f	0.2 ± 0.1^,*^,a,b,f

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