Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-related β-myosin mutations cause highly variable calcium sensitivity with functional imbalances among individual muscle cells

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Disease-causing mutations in cardiac myosin heavy chain (beta-MHC) are identified in about one-third of families with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The effect of myosin mutations on calcium sensitivity of the myofilaments, however, is largely unknown. Because normal and mutant cardiac MHC are also expressed in slow-twitch skeletal muscle, which is more easily accessible and less subject to the adaptive...

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