Phosphorylation of Caldesmon Prevents Its Interaction with Smooth Muscle Myosin

Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4

1970 • 253,849 citations

Ca2+-induced hydrophobic site on calmodulin: Application for purification of calmodulin by phenyl-Sepharose affinity chromatography

1982 • 877 citations

Myosin Phosphorylation and the Cross-Bridge Cycle in Arterial Smooth Muscle

1981 • 705 citations

Cross-bridge phosphorylation and regulation of latch state in smooth muscle

1988 • 437 citations

Specific Chemical Cleavage in High Yield at the Amino Peptide Bonds of Cysteine and Cystine Residues

1973 • 325 citations

Smooth muscle caldesmon. Rapid purification and F-actin cross-linking properties.

1984 • 321 citations

Inhibition of smooth muscle actin-activated myosin Mg2+-ATPase activity by caldesmon.

1984 • 243 citations

[30] Smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase

1983 • 229 citations

Ca2+-dependent hydrophobic-interaction chromatography. Isolation of a novel Ca2+-binding protein and protein kinase C from bovine brain

1984 • 202 citations

Reliability of molecular weight determination of proteins by polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate

1978 • 194 citations

Role of Ca2+ and myosin light chain phosphorylation in regulation of smooth muscle

1982 • 169 citations

Ca2+, cAMP, and changes in myosin phosphorylation during contraction of smooth muscle

1983 • 166 citations

Binding of caldesmon to smooth muscle myosin.

1988 • 163 citations

Effect of caldesmon on the ATPase activity and the binding of smooth and skeletal myosin subfragments to actin.

1988 • 161 citations

Phosphorylation of cardiac troponin by cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate-dependent protein kinase.

1977 • 148 citations

The effects of caldesmon on smooth muscle heavy actomeromyosin ATPase activity and binding of heavy meromyosin to actin.

1986 • 138 citations

Functional domain of caldesmon

1986 • 138 citations

Phosphorylation of Smooth Muscle Myosin: Evidence for Cooperativity Between the Myosin Heads

1981 • 136 citations

Isolation of the native form of chicken gizzard myosin light-chain kinase

1984 • 125 citations

Domain mapping of chicken gizzard caldesmon.

1987 • 113 citations

Smooth muscle caldesmon is an extended flexible monomeric protein in solution that can readily undergo reversible intra- and intermolecular sulfhydryl cross-linking. A mechanism for caldesmon's F-actin bundling activity.

1987 • 97 citations

Properties of caldesmon isolated from chicken gizzard

1985 • 75 citations

The effects of phosphorylation of smooth-muscle caldesmon

1987 • 73 citations

Vascular smooth muscle caldesmon.

1986 • 71 citations

Identification by monoclonal antibodies and characterization of human platelet caldesmon.

1986 • 69 citations

Caldesmon: A calmodulin — Binding actin — Regulatory protein

1986 • 39 citations

Autophosphorylation of smooth-muscle caldesmon

1988 • 35 citations

The effects of caldesmon on the ATPase activities of rabbit skeletal-muscle myosin

1986 • 22 citations

Caldesmon association with smooth muscle thin filaments isolated in the presence and absence of calcium

1986 • 19 citations

Characterization of the autophosphorylation of chicken gizzard caldesmon

1988 • 12 citations

Calcium- and calmodulin-dependent stimulation of smooth muscle actomyosin magnesium-ATPase by fodrin

1987 • 9 citations