Muscle giants: Molecular scaffolds in sarcomerogenesis

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1217-1267

  Kontrogianni Konstantopoulos, Aikaterini ^a   Ackermann, Maegen A ^a   Bowman, Amber L ^a   Yap, Solomon V ^a   Bloch, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA ACTININ; ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; ANKYRIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; CALMODULIN; CALPAIN; CONNECTIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DESMIN; FENTICLOR; FILAMIN; ISOPROTEIN; LIM KINASE; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; MUSCLE PROTEIN; MYOMESIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN BINDING PROTEIN C; NEBULIN; OBSCURIN; PROTEIN CAPZ; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; TROPOMODULIN; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN;

CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SIZE; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MYOFILAMENT; NEMALINE MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SARCOMERE; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THIN FILAMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLES; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MYOFIBRILS; PROTEIN KINASES; SARCOMERES;

EID: 70349670977     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: 15221210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00017.2009     Document Type: Review

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