Caldesmon: A calmodulin — Binding actin — Regulatory protein

The Function of Myosin and Myosin Light Chain Kinase Phosphorylation in Smooth Muscle

1985 • 1,052 citations

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

1981 • 705 citations

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

1981 • 425 citations

Phosphorylation of platelet myosin increases actin-activated myosin ATPase activity

1975 • 413 citations

Regulation of muscular contraction. Distribution of actin control and myosin control in the animal kingdom.

1975 • 355 citations

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

1984 • 321 citations

Biochemistry of Smooth Muscle

1977 • 314 citations

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

1984 • 243 citations

Myosin light chain phosphorylation associated with contraction in arterial smooth muscle

1981 • 242 citations

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

1987 • 215 citations

Regulation of the actin-myosin interaction in vertebrate smooth muscle: Activation via a myosin light-chain kinase and the effect of tropomyosin

1977 • 205 citations

Stress fibers in the splenic sinus endothelium in situ: molecular structure, relationship to the extracellular matrix, and contractility.

1986 • 195 citations

The thin filaments of smooth muscles

1985 • 194 citations

The molecular organization of myosin in stress fibers of cultured cells.

1986 • 181 citations

Troponin C-like proteins (calmodulins) from mammalian smooth muscle and other tissues

1979 • 177 citations

Localization of filamin in smooth muscle.

1986 • 171 citations

Identification and localization of immunoreactive forms of caldesmon in smooth and nonmuscle cells: a comparison with the distributions of tropomyosin and alpha-actinin.

1985 • 170 citations

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

1982 • 169 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

Calcium-Dependent Stress Maintenance Without Myosin Phosphorylation in Skinned Smooth Muscle

1983 • 145 citations

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

1986 • 144 citations

Occurrence of caldesmon (a calmodulin-binding protein) in cultured cells: comparison of normal and transformed cells.

1984 • 139 citations

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

1986 • 138 citations

Localization of myosin, actin, and tropomyosin in rat intestinal epithelium: immunohistochemical studies at the light and electron microscope levels.

1980 • 137 citations

Calmodulin is essential for smooth muscle contraction

1981 • 134 citations

Biochemistry of smooth muscle

1983 • 133 citations

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

1984 • 125 citations

The influence of caldesmon on ATPase activity of the skeletal muscle actomyosin and bundling of actin filaments

1985 • 125 citations

Quantitation of energy coupling between Ca2+, calmodulin, skeletal muscle myosin light chain kinase, and kinase substrates.

1984 • 120 citations

The regulation of smooth muscle contractile proteins

1983 • 116 citations

Distribution of actin and the actin-associated proteins myosin, tropomyosin, alpha-actinin, vinculin, and villin in rat and bovine exocrine glands.

1983 • 114 citations

Myosin phosphorylation during contraction and relaxation of tracheal smooth muscle.

1980 • 103 citations

Calcium ion-regulated thin filaments from vascular smooth muscle

1980 • 103 citations

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

1985 • 102 citations

Purification and properties of Ca2+-regulated thin filaments and F-actin from sheep aorta smooth muscle

1984 • 102 citations

Phosphorylation of the 20,000-dalton light chain of myosin of intact arterial smooth muscle in rest and in contraction.

1979 • 100 citations

Distribution of alpha-actinin in single isolated smooth muscle cells

1983 • 96 citations

Purification and characterization of caldesmon77: a calmodulin-binding protein that interacts with actin filaments from bovine adrenal medulla.

1985 • 93 citations

Identification of a secretory granule-binding protein as caldesmon

1986 • 89 citations

Properties of caldesmon isolated from chicken gizzard

1985 • 75 citations

Advances in protein phosphatases

1985 • 75 citations

Phosphorylation of caldesmon by protein kinase C

1985 • 74 citations

Detection of caldesmon in muscle and non-muscle tissues of the chicken using polyclonal antibodies

1985 • 74 citations

Vascular smooth muscle caldesmon.

1986 • 71 citations

Identification by monoclonal antibodies and characterization of human platelet caldesmon.

1986 • 69 citations

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

1985 • 68 citations

Calcium-activated tension: the role of myosin light chain phosphorylation.

1980 • 68 citations

Modulation of smooth muscle actomyosin ATPase by thin filament associated proteins

1986 • 61 citations

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

1985 • 55 citations

Low Ca2+ impedes cross-bridge detachment in chemically skinned Taenia coli

1982 • 49 citations

Effect of Muscle and Non-muscle Tropomyosins in Reconstituted Skeletal Muscle Actomyosin

1981 • 40 citations

Reconstitution of Ca²⁺‐sensitive gelation of actin filaments with filamin, caldesmon and calmodulin

1982 • 39 citations

Bundling of actin filaments by aorta caldesmon is not related to its regulatory function

1985 • 36 citations

Antibody to thymus myosin: its immunological characterization and use for immunocytochemical localization of myosin in vertebrate nonmuscle cells.

1983 • 33 citations

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

1985 • 29 citations

Immunocytochemical demonstration of caldesmon (a calmodulin-binding, F-actin-interacting protein) in smooth muscle fibers and absorptive epithelial cells in the small intestine of the rat

1984 • 22 citations

Ca2+ can control vascular smooth-muscle thin filaments without caldesmon phosphorylation

1986 • 22 citations

Specific cleavage of calmodulin-binding proteins by low Ca2+-requiring form of Ca2+-activated neutral protease in human platelets.

1983 • 21 citations

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

1986 • 19 citations

Immunocytochemical demonstration of caldesmon and actin in thyroid glands of rats

1984 • 14 citations

Immunocytochemical demonstration for caldesmon and actin in the striated and smooth muscle cells and non-muscular cells of various organs of rats.

1984 • 12 citations

Effect of parathyroid hormone on phospholipid metabolism in osteoblast-like rat osteogenic sarcoma cells

1986 • 11 citations

Occurrence of caldesmon (a calmodulin-binding protein) in cultured cells: Comparison of normal and transformed cells

1984 • 8 citations

Nature of the Calcium Regulatory System of Bovine Arterial Actomyosin

1979 • 7 citations

Possible role of caldesmon in the regulation of smooth muscle and nonmuscle motile systems.

1986 • 4 citations

Microfilament organization in human platelets

1985 • 1 citations