Myosin light chain kinase stimulates smooth muscle myosin ATPase activity by binding to the myosin heads without phosphorylating the myosin light chain

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 305, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 16-21

  Gao, Ying ^a   Kawano, Kazufumi ^a   Yoshiyama, Shinji ^a   Kawamichi, Hozumi ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^a   Nakamura, Akio ^a   Kohama, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heavy mero myosin; Kinase activity; Multifunctional regulatory protein; Myosin activation; Myosin light chain kinase; Myosin binding activity; Non kinase activity; Site of action; Smooth muscle contraction; Subfragment 1

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; SUBFRAGMENT 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

EID: 0038745693     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(03)00690-9     Document Type: Article

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