Vascular Smooth muscle myosin light chain diphosphorylation: Mechanism, function, and pathological implications

IUBMB Life

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 987-1000

  Walsh, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Integrin linked kinase; Myosin II; Protein kinases and phosphatases; Regulatory light chain; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (MAGNESIUM); CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INTEGRIN LINKED KINASE; MYOSIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; PROTEIN KINASE; RHO KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIPPER INTERACTING PROTEIN KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BINDING SITE; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CATALYSIS; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MONOSIGA BREVICOLLIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; MYOSIN-LIGHT-CHAIN KINASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84055199978     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.527     Document Type: Review

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