Myosin phosphatase: Structure, regulation and function

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 197-209

  Ito, Masaaki ^a   Nakano, Takeshi ^a   Erdodi, Ferenc ^b   Hartshorne, David J ^c  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ca2+ sensitization; CPI 17; Myosin phosphate; MYPT1; Rho; Rho kinase; Smooth muscle; Type 1 phosphatase

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; INHIBITOR PROTEIN; ISOENZYME; MYOSIN II; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RHO KINASE;

CELL FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CYCLIC GMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOSIN TYPE II; MYOSIN-LIGHT-CHAIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS;

EID: 1942538405     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MCBI.0000021373.14288.00     Document Type: Review

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