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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2007

A cardiac myosin light chain kinase regulates sarcomere assembly in the vertebrate heart.

Osamu Seguchi, Seiji Takashima, Satoru Yamazaki, Masanori Asakura, Yoshihiro Asano, Yasunori Shintani, Masakatsu Wakeno, Tetsuo Minamino, Hiroya Kondo, Hidehiko Furukawa and 10 more

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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88 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  15. Regulation of myosin light-chain phosphorylation and its roles in cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Osamu SeguchiDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Seiji Takashima
Satoru Yamazaki
Masanori Asakura
Yoshihiro Asano
Yasunori Shintani
Masakatsu Wakeno
Tetsuo Minamino
Hiroya Kondo
Hidehiko Furukawa
Kenji Nakamaru
Asuka Naito
Tomoko Takahashi
Toshiaki Ohtsuka
Koichi Kawakami
Tadashi Isomura
Soichiro Kitamura
Hitonobu Tomoike
Naoki Mochizuki
Masafumi Kitakaze

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Marked sarcomere disorganization is a well-documented characteristic of cardiomyocytes in the failing human myocardium. Myosin regulatory light chain 2, ventricular/cardiac muscle isoform (MLC2v), which is involved in the development of human cardiomyopathy, is an important structural protein that affects physiologic cardiac sarcomere formation and heart development. Integrated cDNA expression analysis of failing human myocardia uncovered a novel protein kinase, cardiac-specific myosin light chain kinase (cardiac-MLCK), which acts on MLC2v. Expression levels of cardiac-MLCK were well correlated with the pulmonary arterial pressure of patients with heart failure. In cultured cardiomyocytes, knockdown of cardiac-MLCK by specific siRNAs decreased MLC2v phosphorylation and impaired epinephrine-induced activation of sarcomere reassembly. To further clarify the physiologic roles of cardiac-MLCK in vivo, we cloned the zebrafish ortholog z-cardiac-MLCK. Knockdown of z-cardiac-MLCK expression using morpholino antisense oligonucleotides resulted in dilated cardiac ventricles and immature sarcomere structures. These results suggest a significant role for cardiac-MLCK in cardiogenesis.

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OrganogenesisAdultAgedAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsCardiac MyosinsCardiac Output, LowCells, CulturedCloning, MolecularEmbryo, NonmammalianFemaleHeartHumansMaleMiddle AgedMolecular Sequence Datacardiac myosin light chain kinase, humanCardiac Myosinsmylk3 protein, zebrafishmyosin light chain 2Myosin-Light-Chain KinaseMyosin Light ChainsOligoribonucleotides, AntisenseZebrafish Proteins

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PMID17885681
PMCPMC1978424

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