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The myosin mesa and the basis of hypercontractility caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutations.
Nature structural & molecular biology - 1 Jun 2017
Nag Suman, Trivedi Darshan V, Sarkar Saswata S, Adhikari Arjun S, Sunitha Margaret S, Sutton Shirley, Ruppel Kathleen M, Spudich James A
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is primarily caused by mutations in β-cardiac myosin and myosin-binding protein-C (MyBP-C). Changes in the contractile parameters of myosin measured so far do not explain the clinical hypercontractility caused by such mutations. We propose that hypercontractility is due to an increase in the number of myosin heads (S1) that are accessible for force production. In support of this...
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