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ReviewNature reviews. Cardiology2022

Targeting the sarcomere in inherited cardiomyopathies.

Sarah J Lehman, Claudia Crocini, Leslie A Leinwand

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Cardiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
84citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
18.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

84 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 118 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Mechano-energetic uncoupling in heart failure.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2025
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  17. Danicamtiv reduces myosin's working stroke but activates the thin filament by accelerating actomyosin attachment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  18. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025
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  19. Molecular mechanisms and intervention approaches of heart failure (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2025
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24 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Sarah J Lehman *BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.
Claudia Crocini *BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.
Leslie A LeinwandBioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. leslie.leinwand@colorado.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1470-4810
University of Colorado Boulder · US

Funding

MYOSIN GENE DIVERSITY AND FUNCTIONR01GM029090 · NIGMS · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI Leslie Anne Leinwand · 1985 to 2026
$12.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM029090
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Variants in >12 genes encoding sarcomeric proteins can cause various cardiomyopathies. The two most common are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Current therapeutics do not target the root causes of these diseases, but attempt to prevent disease progression and/or to manage symptoms. Accordingly, novel approaches are being developed to treat the cardiac muscle dysfunction directly. Challenges to developing therapeutics for these diseases include the diverse mechanisms of pathogenesis, some of which are still being debated and defined. Four small molecules that modulate the myosin motor protein in the cardiac sarcomere have shown great promise in the settings of HCM and DCM, regardless of the underlying genetic pathogenesis, and similar approaches are being developed to target other components of the sarcomere. In the setting of HCM, mavacamten and aficamten bind to the myosin motor and decrease the ATPase activity of myosin. In the setting of DCM, omecamtiv mecarbil and danicamtiv increase myosin activity in cardiac muscle (but omecamtiv mecarbil decreases myosin activity in vitro). In this Review, we discuss the therapeutic strategies to alter sarcomere contractile activity and summarize the data indicating that targeting one protein in the sarcomere can be effective in treating patients with genetic variants in other sarcomeric proteins, as well as in patients with non-sarcomere-based disease.

Indexed as

CardiomyopathiesCardiomyopathy, DilatedCardiomyopathy, HypertrophicHumansMutationMyocardiumMyosinsSarcomeresMyosins

Identifiers

PMID35304599
PMCPMC9119933
OpenAlexW4220889006

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