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Disease-causing mutations in cardiac troponin T: identification of a critical tropomyosin-binding region.
Biophysical journal - 1 Nov 2001
Palm T, Graboski S, Hitchcock-DeGregori S E, Greenfield N J
Abstract excerpt
Fifteen percent of the mutations causing familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are in the troponin T gene. Most mutations are clustered between residues 79 and 179, a region known to bind to tropomyosin at the C-terminus near the complex between the N- and C-termini. Nine mutations were introduced into a troponin T fragment, Gly-hcTnT(70-170), that is soluble, alpha-helical, binds to tropomyosin, promotes the...
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