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The giant protein titin regulates the length of the striated muscle thick filament
| العنوان: | The giant protein titin regulates the length of the striated muscle thick filament |
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| المؤلفون: | Tonino, Paola, Kiss, Balazs, Strom, Josh, Methawasin, Mei, Smith, John E., Kolb, Justin, Labeit, Siegfried, Granzier, Henk |
| Thesis Advisors: | Univ Arizona, Dept Cellular & Mol Med, Univ Arizona, Sarver Mol Cardiovasc Res Program |
| بيانات النشر: | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| المجموعة: | University of Arizona |
| Original Material: | The giant protein titin regulates the length of the striated muscle thick filament 2017, 8 (1) Nature Communications Nature Communications |
| الوصف: | The contractile machinery of heart and skeletal muscles has as an essential component the thick filament, comprised of the molecular motor myosin. The thick filament is of a precisely controlled length, defining thereby the force level that muscles generate and how this force varies with muscle length. It has been speculated that the mechanism by which thick filament length is controlled involves the giant protein titin, but no conclusive support for this hypothesis exists. Here we show that in a mouse model in which we deleted two of titin's C-zone super-repeats, thick filament length is reduced in cardiac and skeletal muscles. In addition, functional studies reveal reduced force generation and a dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) phenotype. Thus, regulation of thick filament length depends on titin and is critical for maintaining muscle health. |
| Original Identifier: | oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/626066 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2041-1723 |
| Relation: | http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01144-9 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-017-01144-9 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626066 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/626066 |
| Rights: | © The Author(s) 2017. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsndl.arizona.edu.oai.arizona.openrepository.com.10150.626066 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20411723 |
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| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-017-01144-9 |