Effects of microtubules and microfilaments on [Ca2+](i) and contractility in a reconstituted fibroblast fiber

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 279, Issue 3 48-3, 2000, Pages

  Obara, Kazuo ^a   Nobe, Koji ^a   Nobe, Hiromi ^a   Kolodney, Michael S ^c   De Lanerolle, Primal ^b   Paul, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochalasin D; Intracellular calcium concentration; Nocodazole; Nonmuscle mechanics; Swiss 3T3; Tensegrity

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COLLAGEN; CYTOCHALASIN D; NOCODAZOLE; THROMBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FIBROBLAST; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; VELOCITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033833950     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.2000.279.3.c785     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Isolation and characterization of myosin from cloned mouse fibroblasts
2. Force response to rapid length change during contraction and rigor in skinned smooth muscle of guinea-pig taenia coli
3. Effects of cytochalasin and phalloidin on actin
4. Fibroblast contractility and actin organization are stimulated by microtubule inhibitors
5. Tension and compression in the cytoskeleton of PC-12 neurites. II. Quantitative measurements
6. Myosin II phosphorylation and the dynamics of stress fibers in serum-deprived and stimulated fibroblasts
7. The interaction of Mip-90 with microtubules and actin filaments in human fibroblasts
8. The variation in isometric tension with sarcomere length in vertebrate muscle fibres
9. 2+ indicators with greatly improved fluorescence properties
10. Effect of length history on contractile behavior of canine tracheal smooth muscle
11. Slowing of velocity during isotonic shortening in single isolated smooth muscle cells. Evidence for an internal load
12. Analysis of the length response to a force step in smooth muscle from rabbit urinary bladder
13. Subpopulations of τ interact with microtubules and actin filaments in various cell types
14. The force of contraction of full-thickness wounds of rabbit skin
15. Use of drugs to study role of microtubule assembly dynamics in living cells
16. Contraction due to microtubule disruption is associated with increased phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chain
17. Correlation of myosin light chain phosphorylation with isometric contraction of fibroblasts
18. 2+-independent myosin II phosphorylation and contraction in chicken embryo fibroblasts
19. Isometric contraction by fibroblasts and endothelial cells in tissue culture: A quantitative study
20. Isomyosins and mechanics in aortas from aldosterone salt hypertensive rats
21. Fibroblast contractility without an increase in basal myosin light chain phosphorylation in wild type cells and cells expressing the catalytic domain of myosin light chain kinase
22. The chemical energetics of vascular smooth muscle. Intermediary metabolism and its relation to contractility
23. Smooth muscle: Mechanochemical energy conversion, relations between metabolism and contractility
24. 2+](i) in porcine coronary artery
25. Reversible phosphorylation of smooth muscle myosin, heavy meromyosin, and platelet myosin
26. Mechanotransduction across the cell surface and through the cytoskeleton
27. Cross-bridge elasticity in single smooth muscle cells