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Mutation that dramatically alters rat titin isoform expression and cardiomyocyte passive tension.
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology - 1 Jun 2008
Greaser Marion L, Warren Chad M, Esbona Karla, Guo Wei, Duan Yingli, Parrish Amanda M, Krzesinski Paul R, Norman Holly S, Dunning Sandra, Fitzsimons Daniel P, Moss Richard L
Abstract excerpt
Titin is a very large alternatively spliced protein that performs multiple functions in heart and skeletal muscles. A rat strain is described with an autosomal dominant mutation that alters the isoform expression of titin. While wild type animals go through a developmental program where the 3.0 MDa N2B becomes the major isoform expressed by two to three weeks after birth (approximately 85%), the appearance of the...
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