Conserved Asp-137 imparts flexibility to tropomyosin and affects function.

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Tropomyosin (Tm) is an alpha-helical coiled-coil that controls muscle contraction by sterically regulating the myosin-actin interaction. Tm moves between three states on F-actin as either a uniform or a non-uniform semi-flexible rod. Tm is stabilized by hydrophobic residues in the "a" and "d" positions of the heptad repeat. The highly conserved Asp-137 is unusual in that it introduces a negative charge on each...

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