Article
Predicting cardiomyopathic phenotypes by altering Ca2+ affinity of cardiac troponin C.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 3 Sept 2010
Parvatiyar Michelle S, Pinto Jose Renato, Liang Jingsheng, Potter James D
Abstract excerpt
Cardiac diseases associated with mutations in troponin subunits include hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM). Altered calcium handling in these diseases is evidenced by changes in the Ca(2+) sensitivity of contraction. Mutations in the Ca(2+) sensor, troponin C (TnC), were generated to increase/decrease the Ca(2+) sensitivity of cardiac skinned...
Topics
- Actomyosin
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Animals
- Calcium
- Cardiomyopathies
- Enzyme Activation
- Humans
- Mice
- Models, Molecular
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal
- Mutation
- Myocardial Contraction
- Phenotype
- Protein Engineering
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Rabbits
- Troponin C
