Evidence for interaction between smooth muscle tropomyosin and caldesmon

Calcium and muscle contraction

1968 • 1,745 citations

Tropomyosin: a new asymmetric protein component of the muscle fibril

1948 • 631 citations

Purification of a calmodulin-binding protein from chicken gizzard that interacts with F-actin.

1981 • 425 citations

Thin Filament Proteins and Thin Filament-Linked Regulation of Vertebrate Muscle Contractio

1984 • 409 citations

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

1984 • 321 citations

A New Protein Factor Promoting Aggregation of Tropomyosin

1965 • 281 citations

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

1984 • 243 citations

Regulatory and Cytoskeletal Proteins of Vertebrate Skeletal Muscle

1986 • 224 citations

The mechanism of Ca2+ regulation of vascular smooth muscle thin filaments by caldesmon and calmodulin.

1987 • 215 citations

<b>CONTROL OF ACTIN-MYOSIN INTERACTION OF GIZZARD SMOOTH MUSCLE BY CALMODULIN- AND CALDESMONLINKED FLIP-FLOP </b><b>MECHANISM </b>

1982 • 162 citations

Caldesmon is a Ca2+-regulatory component of native smooth-muscle thin filaments

1985 • 148 citations

Caldesmon is an elongated, flexible molecule localized in the actomyosin domains of smooth muscle.

1986 • 144 citations

The regulation of smooth muscle contractile proteins

1983 • 116 citations

Caldesmon150 regulates the tropomyosin-enhanced actin-myosin interaction in gizzard smooth muscle

1985 • 102 citations

Disassembly and reconstitution of the Ca²⁺‐sensitive thin filaments of vascular smooth muscle

1985 • 68 citations

Modulation of smooth muscle actomyosin ATPase by thin filament associated proteins

1986 • 61 citations

On the polymerization of tropomyosin

1962 • 60 citations

Caldesmon‐induced inhibition of ATPase activity of actomyosin and contraction of skinned fibres of chicken gizzard smooth muscle

1985 • 55 citations

Light scattering in solutions of native and guanidinated rabbit tropomyosin

1960 • 54 citations

Chicken gizzard tropomyosin: head-to-tail assembly and interaction with F-actin and troponin

1984 • 45 citations

Crosslinking of actin filaments is caused by caldesmon aggregates, but not by its dimers

1985 • 29 citations

Dynamic equilibrium between the two conformational states of spin-labeled tropomyosin

1984 • 29 citations

Mechanisms of the regulation of myofibrillar function in vascular smooth muscle

1984 • 17 citations