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ArticleJournal of muscle research and cell motility2006

Myoinformatics report: myosin regulatory light chain paralogs in the human genome.

John H Collins

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Article in Journal of muscle research and cell motility, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

John H CollinsMedical Biotechnology Center, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. collins@umbi.umd.edu
University of Maryland Medical Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

On-line bioinformatics tools were used to identify and characterize all paralogs (intragenomic homologs) of muscle myosin regulatory light chains in the human genome. The initial search yielded 22 possible paralogs, but careful examination of supporting data eliminated most of these. Five paralogs were clearly identified with the tissue types (skeletal and cardiac muscles, smooth muscle, non-muscle cytoplasm) in which they are expressed. Sequence comparisons and phylogenetic analysis showed early divergence of a common ancestor of smooth muscle and non-muscle paralogs from a common ancestor of skeletal and cardiac muscle paralogs. An unusual sixth human paralog was very similar to the regulatory light chain of "superfast" myosin, which to date has been found only in cat. Finally, a unique and questionable "precursor lymphocyte" paralog was tentatively identified. Three-dimensional structural models of all seven human paralogs were constructed using the known structure of chicken fast skeletal muscle regulatory light chain as a template.

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Genomic LibraryAnimalsChickensComputational BiologyEvolution, MolecularGenome, HumanHumansLymphocytesMuscle ContractionMusclesMuscle, SkeletalMuscle, SmoothMyocardiumMyosin Light ChainsPhylogenyProtein IsoformsMyosin Light ChainsProtein Isoforms

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PMID16538438
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