Molecular mechanisms in striated muscle /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perry, S. V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Series:Lezioni lincee.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. General aspects of motile systems
  • Actin-based motor protein systems
  • Tubulin-based motor protein systems
  • General features of eucaryotic motor proteins
  • Motility in procaryotes
  • Pt. 2. Mechanochemistry of contraction
  • Actin
  • Myosin
  • Organisation of actin and myosin in the myofibril
  • Interaction of actin with myosin and ATP hydrolysis
  • Cross-bridge structure and function
  • Model motile systems
  • Structure of the myosin head
  • Structural aspects of the actin-myosin interaction.
  • Pt. 3. Calcium and the regulation of contraction
  • Sarcoplasmic reticulum
  • Calcium-binding proteins of muscle
  • Kinetics of calcium release
  • Pt. 4. I filament regulation
  • Regulatory proteins of the myofibril
  • Possible mechanisms of troponin-mediated regulation
  • Pt. 5. Regulation of muscle function by phosphorylation
  • Tropomyosin
  • Troponin system
  • Myosin
  • Phospholamban
  • Common features of reversible phosphorylation systems in functioning muscle
  • Pt. 6. Dystrophin and the muscular dystrophies.
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • Identification of the genetic lesion in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies
  • The dystrophin gene and its product
  • Utrophin
  • Functions of dystrophin
  • Gene changes in Xp21 myopathies
  • Animal models
  • Treatment.