Changes in end-to-end interactions of tropomyosin affect mouse cardiac muscle dynamics

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Gaffin, Robert D ^a   Gokulan, Kuppan ^b   Sacchettini, James C ^b   Hewett, Timothy E ^c   Klevitsky, Raisa ^c   Robbins, Jeffrey ^c   Sarin, Vandana ^a   Zawieja, David C ^a   Meininger, Gerald A ^a   Muthuchamy, Mariappan ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Force calcium; Force frequency; Myofilament activation; Thin filament

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TROPOMYOSIN; AMINO ACID; BETA TROPOMYOSIN; CALCIUM; DOCKING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TROPOMYOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; THIN FILAMENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HEART; HEART RATE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROFILAMENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUTATION; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PAPILLARY MUSCLES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TROPOMYOSIN; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33746812163     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00688.2005     Document Type: Article

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