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JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 129, Issue 5, Pages 419-428Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200609714
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [R01 HL059143, 1R01 HL 59143] Funding Source: Medline
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Although absence or abnormality of cardiac myosin binding protein C ( cMyBP-C) produces serious structural and functional abnormalities of the heart, function of the protein itself is not clearly understood, and the cause of the abnormalities, unidentified. Here we report that a major function of cMyBP-C may be regulating the stability of the myosin-containing contractile fi laments through phosphorylation of cMyBP-C. Antibodies were raised against three different regions of cMyBP-C to detect changes in structure within the molecule, and loss of myosin heavy chain was used to monitor degradation of the thick fi lament. Results from Western blotting and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicate that cMyBP-C can exist in two different forms that produce, respectively, stable and unstable thick fi laments. The stable form has well-ordered myosin heads and requires phosphorylation of the cMyBP-C. The unstable form has disordered myosin heads. In tissue with intact cardiac cells, the unstable unphosphorylated cMyBP-C is more easily proteolyzed, causing thick fi laments fi rst to release cMyBP-C and/or its proteolytic peptides and then myosin. Filaments deficient in cMyBP-C are fragmented by shear force well tolerated by the stable form. We hypothesize that modulation of fi lament stability can be coupled at the molecular level with the strength of contraction by the sensitivity of each to the concentration of calcium ions.
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