Mutations in actin subdomain 3 that impair thin filament regulation by troponin and tropomyosin.

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Thin filament-mediated regulation of striated muscle contraction involves conformational switching among a few quaternary structures, with transitions induced by binding of Ca(2+) and myosin. We establish and exploit Saccharomyces cerevisiae actin as a model system to investigate this process. Ca(2+)-sensitive troponin-tropomyosin binding affinities for wild type yeast actin are seen to closely resemble those for...

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