The giant muscle protein titin is an adjustable molecular spring

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 50-53

  Granzier, Henk L ^a   Labeit, Siegfried ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential splicing; Mechanosensing; Muscle mechanics; Passive force; Posttranslational modification; Titin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CALCIUM; CONNECTIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GENE SEQUENCE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE COMPLIANCE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SARCOMERE;

CALCIUM; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SARCOMERES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 33747499068     PISSN: 00916331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/00003677-200604000-00002     Document Type: Review

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