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ArticleJournal of molecular and cellular cardiology2024

Glutamate 139 of tropomyosin is critical for cardiac thin filament blocked-state stabilization.

Meaghan E Barry, Michael J Rynkiewicz, Elumalai Pavadai, Alex Viana, William Lehman, Jeffrey R Moore

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Article in Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology, 2024. 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
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Meaghan E BarryDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Ave, Lowell, MA 01854, United States of America.
Michael J RynkiewiczDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisan School of Medicine, 700 Albany Street, W-408E, Boston, MA 02118, United States of America.
Elumalai PavadaiDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisan School of Medicine, 700 Albany Street, W-408E, Boston, MA 02118, United States of America.
Alex VianaDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Ave, Lowell, MA 01854, United States of America.
William LehmanDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisan School of Medicine, 700 Albany Street, W-408E, Boston, MA 02118, United States of America.
Jeffrey R MooreDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Ave, Lowell, MA 01854, United States of America. 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
Revealing Pathomechanisms of Mutant TPM1 Through a Hybrid Computational-Experimental ApproachR01HL136590 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI STUART G CAMPBELL, William J Lehman · 2017 to 2026
$5.6M
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 R01 HL136590
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cardiac thin filament proteins troponin and tropomyosin control actomyosin formation and thus cardiac contractility. Calcium binding to troponin changes tropomyosin position along the thin filament, allowing myosin head binding to actin required for heart muscle contraction. The thin filament regulatory proteins are hot spots for genetic mutations causing heart muscle dysfunction. While much of the thin filament structure has been characterized, critical regions of troponin and tropomyosin involved in triggering conformational changes remain unresolved. A poorly resolved region, helix-4 (H

Indexed as

Glutamic AcidTropomyosinActinsActomyosinCalciumTroponin IActinsActomyosinCalciumGlutamic AcidTropomyosinTroponin IBlocked-state stabilizationCardiac muscle regulationHelix-4In vitro motilityTropomyosinTroponin

Identifiers

PMID38266978
PMCPMC11654406
OpenAlexW4391091791

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