Search Results - "Trivedi, Darshan V"
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To lie or not to lie: Super-relaxing with myosins
Published in eLife (10-02-2021)“…Since the discovery of muscle in the 19th century, myosins as molecular motors have been extensively studied. However, in the last decade, a new functional…”
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The myosin mesa and the basis of hypercontractility caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutations
Published in Nature structural & molecular biology (01-06-2017)“…A working model for β-cardiac myosin in the sequestered state and binding assays reveal interactions between the myosin head and tail that are disrupted by…”
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β-Cardiac myosin hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutations release sequestered heads and increase enzymatic activity
Published in Nature communications (18-06-2019)“…Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) affects 1 in 500 people and leads to hyper-contractility of the heart. Nearly 40 percent of HCM-causing mutations are found…”
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and the myosin mesa: viewing an old disease in a new light
Published in Biophysical reviews (01-02-2018)“…The sarcomere is an exquisitely designed apparatus that is capable of generating force, which in the case of the heart results in the pumping of blood…”
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Direct measurements of the coordination of lever arm swing and the catalytic cycle in myosin V
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-11-2015)“…Myosins use a conserved structural mechanism to convert the energy from ATP hydrolysis into a large swing of the force-generating lever arm. The precise timing…”
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Switch II Mutants Reveal Coupling between the Nucleotide- and Actin-Binding Regions in Myosin V
Published in Biophysical journal (06-06-2012)“…Conserved active-site elements in myosins and other P-loop NTPases play critical roles in nucleotide binding and hydrolysis; however, the mechanisms of…”
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Magnesium Modulates Actin Binding and ADP Release in Myosin Motors
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (22-08-2014)“…We examined the magnesium dependence of five class II myosins, including fast skeletal muscle myosin, smooth muscle myosin, β-cardiac myosin (CMIIB),…”
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Magnesium Impacts Myosin V Motor Activity by Altering Key Conformational Changes in the Mechanochemical Cycle
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (09-07-2013)“…We investigated how magnesium (Mg) impacts key conformational changes during the ADP binding/release steps in myosin V and how these alterations impact the…”
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Deciphering the super relaxed state of human β-cardiac myosin and the mode of action of mavacamten from myosin molecules to muscle fibers
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-08-2018)“…Mutations in β-cardiac myosin, the predominant motor protein for human heart contraction, can alter power output and cause cardiomyopathy. However,…”
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The Myosin Family of Mechanoenzymes: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Approaches
Published in Annual review of biochemistry (20-06-2020)“…Myosins are among the most fascinating enzymes in biology. As extremely allosteric chemomechanical molecular machines, myosins are involved in myriad pivotal…”
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SETD3 is an actin histidine methyltransferase that prevents primary dystocia
Published in Nature (London) (01-01-2019)“…For more than 50 years, the methylation of mammalian actin at histidine 73 has been known to occur 1 . Despite the pervasiveness of His73 methylation, which we…”
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Single Residue Variation in Skeletal Muscle Myosin Enables Direct and Selective Drug Targeting for Spasticity and Muscle Stiffness
Published in Cell (15-10-2020)“…Muscle spasticity after nervous system injuries and painful low back spasm affect more than 10% of global population. Current medications are of limited…”
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Converter domain mutations in myosin alter structural kinetics and motor function
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (01-02-2019)“…Myosins are molecular motors that use a conserved ATPase cycle to generate force. We investigated two mutations in the converter domain of myosin V (R712G and…”
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The hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutations R403Q and R663H increase the number of myosin heads available to interact with actin
Published in Science advances (01-04-2020)“…Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) mutations in β-cardiac myosin and myosin binding protein-C (MyBP-C) lead to hypercontractility of the heart, an early…”
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Uncovering the Molecular and Structural Basis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy-Causing Mutations in Myosin and Myosin Binding Protein-C
Published in Biophysical journal (07-02-2020)Get full text
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First-in-class drug candidate (MPH-220) efficiently improves spastic gait disorders by selective inhibition of fast skeletal muscle myosin-2
Published in Biophysical journal (11-02-2022)Get full text
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Mutations Disrupt Human Beta Cardiac Myosin Intramolecular Interactions Leading to Increased Myosin Activity
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Converter Mutation Disrupts Lever arm Rotation in Myosin V
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A Molecular Approach to Understand the Super-Relaxed State of Myosin Observed in Cardiac Muscle
Published in Biophysical journal (02-02-2018)Get full text
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Impact of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Mutations and the Role of Myosin Binding Protein-C on the Sequestered State of Myosin
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