Muscle Physiology and Biochemistry

Professor Ebashi's impact on the study of the regulation of striated muscle contraction.- Troponin I: Inhibitor or facilitator.- Calcium ion regulation of muscle contraction: The regulatory role of troponin T.- Thermodynamic analyses of calcium binding to troponin C, calmodulin and parvalbumins by using microcalorimetry.- A strange calmodulin of yeast.- Regulation by molluscan myosins.- The properties and function of invertebrate new muscle protein.- Actin binding proteins that change extent and rate of actin monomer-polymer distribution by different mechanisms.- A phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance study on the complex of chicken gizzard myosin subfragment 1 with adenosine diphosphate.- Interactions of protein phosphatase type 1, with a focus on myosin phosphatase.- Myosin light chain kinase from skeletal muscle regulates an ATP-dependent interaction between actin and myosin by binding to actin.- Ca2+-induced Ca2+ desensitization of myosin light chain phosphorylation and contraction in phasic smooth muscle.- Growing and differentiating characterization of aortic smooth muscle cell line, p53LMAC01 obtained from p53 knock out mice.- Expressional regulation of smooth muscle cell-specific genes in association with phenotypic modulation.- Roles of intracellular Ca2+ receptors in the pancreatic ß-cell in insulin secretion.- Organization of connectin/titin filaments in sarcomeres of differentiating chicken skeletal muscle cells.- Detection of a sequence involved in actin-binding and phosphoinositide-binding in the N-terminal side of cofilin.- Creatine kinase, cell membrane and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.- Structural basis of the function of endothelin receptor.- Stimulation of plasma membrane Ca2+-pump ATPase of vascular smooth muscle by cGMP-dependent proteinkinase: Functional reconstitution with purified proteins.- Chemical modification of an arginine residue in the ATP-binding site of Ca2+-transporting ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum by phenylglyoxal.-