The Giant Protein Titin: A Major Player in Myocardial Mechanics, Signaling, and Disease

Circulation Research

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 284-295

  Granzier, Henk L ^a   Labeit, Siegfried ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectin; Contractility; Myocardial stiffness; Passive stiffness; Stretch

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BIOMECHANICS; FETUS (ANATOMY); HEART MUSCLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SARCOMERE; SARCOMERE M LINE; SARCOMERE Z DISC; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THIN FILAMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MICE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 1242342244     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000117769.88862.F8     Document Type: Review

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