Muscle Physiology and Biochemistry

Front Matter....Pages i-3
Professor Ebashi’s impact on the study of the regulation of striated muscle contraction....Pages 5-8
Troponin I: Inhibitor or facilitator....Pages 9-32
Calcium ion regulation of muscle contraction: The regulatory role of troponin T....Pages 33-38
Thermodynamic analyses of calcium binding to troponin C, calmodulin and parvalbumins by using microcalorimetry....Pages 39-45
A strange calmodulin of yeast....Pages 47-53
Regulation by molluscan myosins....Pages 55-62
The properties and function of invertebrate new muscle protein....Pages 63-66
Actin binding proteins that change extent and rate of actin monomer-polymer distribution by different mechanisms....Pages 67-74
A phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance study on the complex of chicken gizzard myosin subfragment 1 with adenosine diphosphate....Pages 75-78
Interactions of protein phosphatase type 1, with a focus on myosin phosphatase....Pages 79-84
Myosin light chain kinase from skeletal muscle regulates an ATP-dependent interaction between actin and myosin by binding to actin....Pages 85-90
Ca2+-induced Ca2+ desensitization of myosin light chain phosphorylation and contraction in phasic smooth muscle....Pages 91-98
Growing and differentiating characterization of aortic smooth muscle cell line, p53LMAC01 obtained from p53 knock out mice....Pages 99-104
Expressional regulation of smooth muscle cell-specific genes in association with phenotypic modulation....Pages 105-118
Roles of intracellular Ca 2+ receptors in the pancreatic β-cell in insulin secretion....Pages 119-124
Organization of connectin/titin filaments in sarcomeres of differentiating chicken skeletal muscle cells....Pages 125-131
Detection of a sequence involved in actin-binding and phosphoinositide-binding in the N-terminal side of cofilin....Pages 133-141
Creatine kinase, cell membrane and Duchenne muscular dystrophy....Pages 143-151
Structural basis of the function of endothelin receptor....Pages 153-156
Stimulation of plasma membrane Ca 2+ -pump ATPase of vascular smooth muscle by cGMP- dependent protein kinase: Functional reconstitution with purified proteins....Pages 157-167
Chemical modification of an arginine residue in the ATP-binding site of Ca 2+ -transporting ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum by phenylglyoxal....Pages 169-177
Intrinsic inhibitor of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate binding....Pages 179-184
Dynamic regulation of intracellular calcium signals through calcium release channels....Pages 185-190
Comparison of properties of Ca 2+ release channels between rabbit and frog skeletal muscles....Pages 191-201