Tropomyosin structure, function, and interactions: a dynamic regulator

SE Hitchcock-DeGregori, B Barua - Fibrous proteins: structures and …, 2017 - Springer
Tropomyosin is the archetypal-coiled coil, yet studies of its structure and function have
proven it to be a dynamic regulator of actin filament function in muscle and non-muscle cells …

A study of tropomyosin's role in cardiac function and disease using thin-filament reconstituted myocardium

F Bai, L Wang, M Kawai - Journal of muscle research and cell motility, 2013 - Springer
Tropomyosin (Tm) is the key regulatory component of the thin-filament and plays a central
role in the cardiac muscle's cooperative activation mechanism. Many mutations of cardiac …

Enhanced active cross-bridges during diastole: molecular pathogenesis of tropomyosin's HCM mutations

F Bai, A Weis, AK Takeda, PB Chase, M Kawai - Biophysical journal, 2011 - cell.com
Three HCM-causing tropomyosin (Tm) mutants (V95A, D175N, and E180G) were examined
using the thin-filament extraction and reconstitution technique. The effects of Ca 2+, ATP …

Regulation of actin-myosin interaction by conserved periodic sites of tropomyosin

B Barua, DA Winkelmann, HD White… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Cooperative activation of actin-myosin interaction by tropomyosin (Tm) is central to
regulation of contraction in muscle cells and cellular and intracellular movements in …

A periodic pattern of evolutionarily conserved basic and acidic residues constitutes the binding interface of actin-tropomyosin

B Barua, PM Fagnant, DA Winkelmann… - Journal of Biological …, 2013 - ASBMB
Actin filament cytoskeletal and muscle functions are regulated by actin binding proteins
using a variety of mechanisms. A universal actin filament regulator is the protein …

What makes tropomyosin an actin binding protein? A perspective

SE Hitchcock-DeGregori, A Singh - Journal of structural biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Tropomyosin is a two-chained α-helical coiled coil that binds along the length of the actin
filament and regulates its function. The paper addresses the question of how a “simple” …

Periodicities designed in the tropomyosin sequence and structure define its functions

B Barua - Bioarchitecture, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Tropomyosin is an actin binding protein that regulates actin filament dynamics and its
interactions with actin binding proteins such as myosin, tropomodulin, formin, Arp2/3 and …

The role of tropomyosin domains in cooperative activation of the actin–myosin interaction

Y Oguchi, J Ishizuka, SE Hitchcock-DeGregori… - Journal of molecular …, 2011 - Elsevier
To establish α-tropomyosin (Tm)'s structure–function relationships in cooperative regulation
of muscle contraction, thin filaments were reconstituted with a variety of Tm mutants (Δ2Tm …

The role of tropomyosin isoforms and phosphorylation in force generation in thin-filament reconstituted bovine cardiac muscle fibres

X Lu, DH Heeley, LB Smillie, M Kawai - … of muscle research and cell motility, 2010 - Springer
The thin filament extraction and reconstitution protocol was used to investigate the functional
roles of tropomyosin (Tm) isoforms and phosphorylation in bovine myocardium. The thin …

Mutations Q93H and E97K in TPM2 Disrupt Ca-Dependent Regulation of Actin Filaments

M Śliwinska, K Robaszkiewicz, P Wasąg… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tropomyosin is a two-chain coiled coil protein, which together with the troponin complex
controls interactions of actin with myosin in a Ca2+-dependent manner. In fast skeletal …