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Tropomyosin and actin isoforms modulate the localization of tropomyosin strands on actin filaments.
Journal of molecular biology - 22 Sept 2000
Lehman W, Hatch V, Korman V, Rosol M, Thomas L, Maytum R, Geeves M A, Van Eyk J E, Tobacman L S, Craig R
Abstract excerpt
Tropomyosin is present in virtually all eucaryotic cells, where it functions to modulate actin-myosin interaction and to stabilize actin filament structure. In striated muscle, tropomyosin regulates contractility by sterically blocking myosin-binding sites on actin in the relaxed state. On activation, tropomyosin moves away from these sites in two steps, one induced by Ca(2+) binding to troponin and a second by...
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