Biochemical and physicochemical characteristics of the major muscle proteins from fish and shellfish

Y Ochiai, H Ozawa - Fisheries science, 2020 - Springer
Fish and marine invertebrates constitute an important part of the human diet worldwide, and
their muscles are the major edible parts. The muscles are a rich source of proteins, which in …

New insights into the regulation of the actin cytoskeleton by tropomyosin

CLA Wang, LM Coluccio - International review of cell and molecular …, 2010 - Elsevier
The actin cytoskeleton is regulated by a variety of actin-binding proteins including those
constituting the tropomyosin family. Tropomyosins are coiled-coil dimers that bind along the …

A novel class of anticancer compounds targets the actin cytoskeleton in tumor cells

JR Stehn, NK Haass, T Bonello, M Desouza, G Kottyan… - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
The actin cytoskeleton is a potentially vulnerable property of cancer cells, yet
chemotherapeutic targeting attempts have been hampered by unacceptable toxicity. In this …

Tropomyosin position on F-actin revealed by EM reconstruction and computational chemistry

XE Li, LS Tobacman, JY Mun, R Craig, S Fischer… - Biophysical journal, 2011 - cell.com
Electron microscopy and fiber diffraction studies of reconstituted F-actin-tropomyosin
filaments reveal the azimuthal position of end-to-end linked tropomyosin molecules on the …

Cryo-EM and molecular docking shows myosin loop 4 contacts actin and tropomyosin on thin filaments

MH Doran, E Pavadai, MJ Rynkiewicz, J Walklate… - Biophysical journal, 2020 - cell.com
The motor protein myosin drives muscle and nonmuscle motility by binding to and moving
along actin of thin filaments. Myosin binding to actin also modulates interactions of the …

Loss of crossbridge inhibition drives pathological cardiac hypertrophy in patients harboring the TPM1 E192K mutation

LR Sewanan, J Park, MJ Rynkiewicz… - Journal of General …, 2021 - rupress.org
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an inherited disorder caused primarily by mutations
to thick and thinfilament proteins. Although thin filament mutations are less prevalent than …

Distinct actin–tropomyosin cofilament populations drive the functional diversification of cytoskeletal myosin motor complexes

T Reindl, S Giese, JN Greve, PY Reinke, I Chizhov… - IScience, 2022 - cell.com
The effects of N-terminal acetylation of the high molecular weight tropomyosin isoforms
Tpm1. 6 and Tpm2. 1 and the low molecular weight isoforms Tpm1. 12, Tpm3. 1, and Tpm4 …

Condensin Smc2-Smc4 dimers are flexible and dynamic

JM Eeftens, AJ Katan, M Kschonsak, M Hassler… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein complexes, including cohesin and
condensin, play key roles in the regulation of higher-order chromosome organization. Even …

A model of calcium activation of the cardiac thin filament

EP Manning, JC Tardiff, SD Schwartz - Biochemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
The cardiac thin filament regulates actomyosin interactions through calcium-dependent
alterations in the dynamics of cardiac troponin and tropomyosin. Over the past several …

The relationship between curvature, flexibility and persistence length in the tropomyosin coiled-coil

XE Li, W Lehman, S Fischer - Journal of structural biology, 2010 - Elsevier
The inherent flexibility of rod-like tropomyosin coiled-coils is a significant factor that
constrains tropomyosin's complex positional dynamics on actin filaments. Flexibility of …