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ArticleJournal of muscle research and cell motility2016

Investigating the effects of tropomyosin mutations on its flexibility and interactions with filamentous actin using molecular dynamics simulation.

Wenjun Zheng, Sarah E Hitchcock-DeGregori, Bipasha Barua

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Article in Journal of muscle research and cell motility, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Wenjun ZhengDepartment of Physics, University at Buffalo, 239 Fronczak Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA. wjzheng@buffalo.edu.
Sarah E Hitchcock-DeGregoriDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA.
Bipasha BaruaDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA.
Johnson University · USRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York · US

Funding

Deciphering how tropomyosin regulates the actin filamentR01GM093065 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI HITCHCOCK-DEGREGORI, SARAH ELLEN · 2010 to 2013
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093065
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tropomyosin (Tpm) is a two-chained α-helical coiled-coil protein that binds to filamentous actin (F-actin), and regulates its interactions with myosin by occupying three average positions on F-actin (blocked, closed, and open). Mutations in the Tpm are linked to heart diseases including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). To elucidate the molecular mechanisms of Tpm mutations (including DCM mutation E54K, HCM mutations E62Q, A63V, K70T, V95A, D175N, E180G, L185R, E192K, and a designed synthetic mutation D137L) in terms of their effects on Tpm flexibility and its interactions with F-actin, we conducted extensive molecular dynamics simulations for the wild-type and mutant Tpm in complex with F-actin (total simulation time 160 ns per mutant). The mutants exhibited distinct changes (i.e., increase or decrease) in the overall and local flexibility of the Tpm coiled-coil, with each mutation causing both local and long-range modifications of the Tpm flexibility. In addition, our binding calculations revealed weakened Tpm-F-actin interactions (except for L185R, D137L and A63V) involving five periods of Tpm, which correlate with elevated fluctuation of Tpm relative to the blocked position on F-actin that may lead to easier activation and increased Ca

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Actin CytoskeletonCardiomyopathy, DilatedHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationTropomyosinTropomyosinBinding energyCardiomyopathyF-actinFlexibilityMolecular dynamicsMutationPersistent lengthTropomyosin

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PMID27376658
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