Journal of Biophysics
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 380967, 17 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/380967
Research Article

Tropomyosin Period 3 Is Essential for Enhancement of Isometric Tension in Thin Filament-Reconstituted Bovine Myocardium

Masataka Kawai,1 Xiaoying Lu,1 Sarah E. Hitchcock-DeGregori,2 Kristen J. Stanton,1 and Michael W. Wandling2

1Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
2Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

Received 23 March 2009; Revised 29 May 2009; Accepted 5 July 2009

Academic Editor: P. Bryant Chase

Copyright © 2009 Masataka Kawai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

How to Cite this Article

Masataka Kawai, Xiaoying Lu, Sarah E. Hitchcock-DeGregori, Kristen J. Stanton, and Michael W. Wandling, “Tropomyosin Period 3 Is Essential for Enhancement of Isometric Tension in Thin Filament-Reconstituted Bovine Myocardium,” Journal of Biophysics, vol. 2009, Article ID 380967, 17 pages, 2009. doi:10.1155/2009/380967