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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2020

M8R tropomyosin mutation disrupts actin binding and filament regulation: The beginning affects the middle and end.

Alice Ward Racca, Michael J Rynkiewicz, Nicholas LaFave, Anita Ghosh, William Lehman, Jeffrey R Moore

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alice Ward RaccaDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.
Michael J RynkiewiczDepartment of Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Nicholas LaFaveDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.
Anita GhoshDepartment of Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
William LehmanDepartment of Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Jeffrey R MooreDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. Electronic address: Jeffrey_moore@uml.edu.
Boston University · USUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell · US

Funding

THIN FILAMENTS AND VERTEBRATE SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTIONR01HL036153 · NHLBI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI William J Lehman · 1986 to 2026
$6.5M
Thin Filaments and Muscle RegulationR37HL036153 · NHLBI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI LEHMAN, WILLIAM J · 2008 to 2017
$4.1M
Cooperativity in the Cardiac Myofilament Interactome in Health and DiseaseR01HL123774 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL · PI MOORE, JEFFREY R · 2016 to 2019
$1.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL036153NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL123774NHLBI NIH HHS R37 HL036153
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is associated with mutations in cardiomyocyte sarcomeric proteins, including α-tropomyosin. In conjunction with troponin, tropomyosin shifts to regulate actomyosin interactions. Tropomyosin molecules overlap via tropomyosin-tropomyosin head-to-tail associations, forming a continuous strand along the thin filament. These associations are critical for propagation of tropomyosin's reconfiguration along the thin filament and key for the cooperative switching between heart muscle contraction and relaxation. Here, we tested perturbations in tropomyosin structure, biochemistry, and function caused by the DCM-linked mutation, M8R, which is located at the overlap junction. Localized and nonlocalized structural effects of the mutation were found in tropomyosin that ultimately perturb its thin filament regulatory function. Comparison of mutant and WT α-tropomyosin was carried out using

Indexed as

Mutation, MissenseActin CytoskeletonActinsAmino Acid SubstitutionCardiomyopathy, DilatedCircular DichroismHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationTropomyosinActinsTropomyosincardiac musclecardiomyopathyDCMin vitro motilityM8Rmolecular dynamicsmuscletropomyosin

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PMID33020181
PMCPMC7863880
OpenAlexW3090804336

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