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MYH4
Introduction
Myosin-4 also known as myosin, heavy chain 4 is a protein which in humans is encoded by the MYH4 gene.[1]
Function
Function
MYH4 is a gene that encodes a sarcomeric myosin.
References
References
- ↑ Edwards YH, Parkar M, Povey S, West LF, Parrington JM, Solomon E (May 1985). “Human myosin heavy chain genes assigned to chromosome 17 using a human cDNA clone as probe”. Ann. Hum. Genet. 49 (Pt 2): 101–9. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.1985.tb01681.x. PMID 3000272.
Further reading
Further reading
- Sant’ana Pereira JA, Wessels A, Nijtmans L, et al. (1995). “New method for the accurate characterization of single human skeletal muscle fibres demonstrates a relation between mATPase and MyHC expression in pure and hybrid fibre types”. J. Muscle Res. Cell. Motil. 16 (1): 21–34. doi:10.1007/BF00125307. PMID 7751402.
- Weiss A, McDonough D, Wertman B, et al. (1999). “Organization of human and mouse skeletal myosin heavy chain gene clusters is highly conserved”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 (6): 2958–63. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.6.2958. PMC 15877. PMID 10077619.
- Barton PJ, Buckingham ME (1985). “The myosin alkali light chain proteins and their genes”. Biochem. J. 231 (2): 249–61. PMC 1152739. PMID 3904738.
- Horton MJ, Brandon CA, Morris TJ, et al. (2001). “Abundant expression of myosin heavy-chain IIB RNA in a subset of human masseter muscle fibres”. Arch. Oral Biol. 46 (11): 1039–50. doi:10.1016/S0003-9969(01)00066-8. PMC 3848045. PMID 11543711.
- Weiss A, Schiaffino S, Leinwand LA (1999). “Comparative sequence analysis of the complete human sarcomeric myosin heavy chain family: implications for functional diversity”. J. Mol. Biol. 290 (1): 61–75. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1999.2865. PMID 10388558.
- Larsson L, Moss RL (1993). “Maximum velocity of shortening in relation to myosin isoform composition in single fibres from human skeletal muscles”. J. Physiol. 472: 595–614. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1993.sp019964. PMC 1160504. PMID 8145163.
- Li ZH, Spektor A, Varlamova O, Bresnick AR (2003). “Mts1 regulates the assembly of nonmuscle myosin-IIA”. Biochemistry. 42 (48): 14258–66. doi:10.1021/bi0354379. PMID 14640694.
- Sowa ME, Bennett EJ, Gygi SP, Harper JW (2009). “Defining the human deubiquitinating enzyme interaction landscape”. Cell. 138 (2): 389–403. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2009.04.042. PMC 2716422. PMID 19615732.
- Ford HL, Silver DL, Kachar B, et al. (1997). “Effect of Mts1 on the structure and activity of nonmuscle myosin II”. Biochemistry. 36 (51): 16321–7. doi:10.1021/bi971182l. PMID 9405067.
- Soussi-Yanicostas N, Whalen RG, Petit C (1993). “Five skeletal myosin heavy chain genes are organized as a multigene complex in the human genome”. Hum. Mol. Genet. 2 (5): 563–9. doi:10.1093/hmg/2.5.563. PMID 8518795.
- Ewing RM, Chu P, Elisma F, et al. (2007). “Large-scale mapping of human protein-protein interactions by mass spectrometry”. Mol. Syst. Biol. 3 (1): 89. doi:10.1038/msb4100134. PMCÂ 1847948. PMIDÂ 17353931.