书目名称 | Elastic Filaments of the Cell |
编辑 | Henk L. Granzier,Gerald H. Pollack |
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丛书名称 | Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology |
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描述 | Elastic filaments refer mainly to titin, the largest of allknown proteins. Titin was discovered initially in muscle cells, whereit interconnects the thick filament with the Z-line. Titin forms amolecular spring that is responsible for maintaining the structuralintegrity of contracting muscle, ensuring efficient musclecontraction. More recently, it has become clear that titin is notrestricted to muscle cells alone. For example, titin is found inchromosomes of neurons and also in blood platelets. This topic is fastbecoming a focal point for research in understanding viscoelasticproperties at the molecular, cellular, and tissue levels. In titin maylie a generic basis for biological viscoelasticity. It has becomeclear that titin may hold the key to certain clinical anomalies. Forexample, it is clear that titin-based ventricular stiffness ismodulated by calcium and that titin is responsible for the alteredstiffness in cardiomyopathies. It is also clear from evidence from agroup of Finnish families that titin mutations may underlie somemuscular dystrophies and that with other mutations chromatids fail toseparate during mitosis. Thus, it is clear that this protein will haveimportant clini |
出版日期 | Book 2000 |
关键词 | Activation; Calcium; Drosophila; cell; chromosome; mutation; protein; protein structure; proteins; tissue |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4267-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-6916-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-4267-4Series ISSN 0065-2598 Series E-ISSN 2214-8019 |
issn_series | 0065-2598 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Busines |