Blebbistatin, a myosin II inhibitor, suppresses contraction and disrupts contractile filaments organization of skinned taenia cecum from guinea pig

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Watanabe, Masaru ^a   Yumoto, Masatoshi ^a,b   Tanaka, Hideyuki ^c   Wang, Hon Hui ^c   Katayama, Takeshi ^c   Yoshiyama, Shinji ^c   Black, Jason ^e   Thatcher, Sean E ^d,f   Kohama, Kazuhiro ^c,e  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d MARSHALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenosinetriphosphatase; Contractile filaments; Skinned preparations; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BLEBBISTATIN; CALCIUM ION; F ACTIN; MAGNESIUM ION; MYOSIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; COLON TENIA; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL GUINEA PIG; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; THIN FILAMENT;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CECUM; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GUINEA PIGS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS WITH 4 OR MORE RINGS; MAGNESIUM; MALE; MICROFILAMENTS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOSIN TYPE II; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SMOOTH MUSCLE MYOSINS;

CAVIA; TAENIA;

EID: 77951482150     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: 15221563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00269.2009     Document Type: Article

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