Article
Calmodulin regulation of excitation-contraction coupling in cardiac myocytes.
Circulation research - 4 Apr 2003
Yang Dongmei, Song Long-Sheng, Zhu Wei-Zhong, Chakir Khalid, Wang Wei, Wu Caihong, Wang Yibin, Xiao Rui-Ping, Chen S R Wayne, Cheng Heping
Abstract excerpt
Calmodulin (CaM) as a ubiquitous Ca2+ sensor interacts with multiple key molecules involved in excitation-contraction (EC) coupling. In the present study, we report that adenoviral expression of a mutant CaM lacking all of its four Ca2+-binding sites, CaM(1-4), at a level 6.5-fold over endogenous CaM markedly increases the amplitude and abbreviates the decay time of Ca2+ transients and contraction in cultured rat...
Topics
- Animals
- Calcium
- Calcium Channels, L-Type
- Calcium Signaling
- Calcium-Binding Proteins
- Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2
- Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases
- Calmodulin
- Cells, Cultured
- Electric Conductivity
