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The mechanics of the heart: zooming in on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cMyBP-C.
FEBS letters - 1 Mar 2022
Suay-Corredera Carmen, Alegre-Cebollada Jorge
Abstract excerpt
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a disease characterized by cardiac muscle hypertrophy and hypercontractility, is the most frequently inherited disorder of the heart. HCM is mainly caused by variants in genes encoding proteins of the sarcomere, the basic contractile unit of cardiomyocytes. The most frequently mutated among them is MYBPC3, which encodes cardiac myosin-binding protein C (cMyBP-C), a key regulator...
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