Cardiac titin: An adjustable multi-functional spring

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 541, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 335-342

  Granzier, Henk ^a   Labeit, Siegfried ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CONNECTIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ISOPROTEIN; MUSCLE RING FINGER 1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ELASTICITY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART CONTRACTION; INTRON; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SPLICING; SARCOMERE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TITIN GENE;

ACTOMYOSIN; ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; HEART; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOCARDIUM; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036623918     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2001.014381     Document Type: Article

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