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    Online Resource
    Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,
    Keywords: Heart -- Diseases -- Prevention. ; Cardiovascular system -- Diseases. ; Electronic books.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (320 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783319152639
    DDC: 612.17
    Language: English
    Note: Intro -- Cardiac Cytoarchitecture: Why Bother? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Cardiac Cytoarchitecture in Health and Disease -- 1.1 Cardiomyocytes During Development -- 1.2 Cardiomyocytes in Disease -- 1.3 How to Study Cardiac Cytoarchitecture -- References -- Chapter 2: In Vitro Tools for Quantifying Structure-Function Relationships in Cardiac Myocyte Cells and Tissues -- 2.1 Structure-Function Relationships in Single Cardiac Myocytes -- 2.1.1 Myofibrillogenesis: Self-Assembly of the Contractile Apparatus -- 2.1.2 Myocyte Shape Remodeling in Development and Disease -- 2.1.3 Extracellular Matrix Regulation of Cardiac Myocyte Structure and Function -- 2.2 Structure-Function Relationships at the Intercalated Disc -- 2.2.1 Co-development of the Intercalated Disc with the Contractile Apparatus -- 2.2.2 Potential Role of the Extracellular Matrix in Pathological Intercalated Disc Remodeling -- 2.2.3 Engineering Gap Junctions -- 2.3 Structure-Function Relationships in Multicellular Cardiac Tissues -- 2.3.1 Organization and Structure In Vivo and In Vitro -- 2.3.2 Tissue Organization and Electrophysiology -- 2.3.3 Tissue Organization and Contractility -- 2.3.4 Stem Cell-Derived Cardiac Tissues: Potential Therapeutic Applications -- 2.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: The Intercalated Disc: A Focal Point for Sarcomere Growth and Disease -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Postnatal Heart Growth -- 3.2.1 Proliferation and Hypertrophy -- 3.2.2 Morphology of Cardiomyocytes During Growth -- 3.2.3 Cardiomyocyte Connections -- 3.3 Myofibril Formation and Growth -- 3.3.1 Early Formation of Myofibrils -- 3.3.2 Evidence for Fibril Growth at the Ends of Myocytes -- 3.4 Structure of the Intercalated Disc -- 3.4.1 General Organisation -- 3.4.2 ID Membrane: Domains and Connections -- 3.4.3 The ID as Z-Disc: The Transitional Junction. , 3.5 The ID/Transitional Junction in Longitudinal Growth -- 3.5.1 Variation of ID Amplitude -- 3.5.2 Sarcomere Insertion -- 3.5.3 Mechanism of Sarcomere Addition -- 3.5.4 SR Extension and T-Tubule Addition -- 3.5.5 Lateral Growth of the ID -- 3.6 The ID in Disease -- 3.6.1 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy -- 3.6.2 Dilated Cardiomyopathy and the Adherens Junction -- 3.6.3 Arrhythmic Right Ventricle Cardiomyopathy and the Desmosome -- 3.6.4 Gap Junction Disorders -- 3.6.5 Brugada Syndrome and Non-junctional Domain Cardiomyopathies -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Dynamics of Actin in the Heart: Defining Thin Filament Length -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Major Components of the Thin Filament -- 4.3 Thin Filament Length Regulation -- 4.4 Capping Proteins: Tmod and CapZ -- 4.5 Stabilization of the Thin Filament -- 4.6 Dynamic Equilibrium Between G-Actin and F-Actin -- 4.7 Links Between Alternations in Thin Filament Components and Myopathies -- 4.8 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 5: Ca2+ Regulation of the Cardiac Thin Filament -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Ca2+-Induced Ca2+ Release -- 5.3 Sarcomere Function -- 5.4 Sarcomere Structure -- 5.5 Tropomyosin and the Steric Blocking Model -- 5.6 Troponin: The Ca2+ Switch -- 5.7 Troponin C -- 5.8 Troponin I -- 5.9 Troponin T -- 5.10 Phosphorylation -- 5.11 Ischemic Insult and the Thin Filament -- 5.12 Histidine Modified Troponin I -- References -- Chapter 6: Posttranslational Modification of the Titin Springs: Dynamic Adaptation of Passive Sarcomere Stiffness -- 6.1 The Sarcomeric Protein Titin: Regulator of Myofilament Stiffness -- 6.2 Dynamic Modulation of Titin by Phosphorylation -- 6.2.1 Z-Disk and M-Band Phosphorylation -- 6.2.2 I-Band Phosphorylation of Titin -- 6.3 Regulation of Titin Phosphorylation in Health and Disease -- 6.3.1 Altered Titin Phosphorylation in Heart Failure. , 6.3.2 Hormonal Influences on Titin Phosphorylation: Relevance for Metabolic Diseases -- 6.4 Posttranslational Modification of Titin in Response to Oxidative Stress -- 6.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: The M-Band: Not Just Inert Glue but Playing an Active Role in the Middle of the Sarcomere -- 7.1 The M-Band Is Part of the Sarcomere Cytoskeleton -- 7.2 M-Band Function: Balancing the Forces in the Contracting Sarcomere -- 7.3 Structure of the M-Band as Studied by Electron Microscopy -- 7.4 The Myomesin Protein Family -- 7.5 Myomesin Protein Family: Dimers That Cross-Link Myosin Filaments -- 7.6 Alternative Splicing of Myomesin -- 7.7 Correlation of M-Band Appearance and Molecular Composition -- 7.8 Other M-Band Components -- 7.9 What Happens if Myomesin Is Stretched -- 7.10 Signalling from the M-Band -- 7.11 The M-Band and Disease -- 7.12 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Sarcomeric Signaling -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Mechanotransduction -- 8.2.1 Titin and Associated Signaling Pathways -- 8.2.2 Telethonin/T-Cap -- 8.2.3 Muscle Lim Protein -- 8.2.4 LRRC39/Myomasp -- 8.3 Protein Degradation and Turnover -- 8.3.1 Muscle-Specific RING Finger Proteins -- 8.3.2 F-Box and Leucine-Rich Repeat Protein 22 -- 8.3.3 Atrogin-1 -- 8.3.4 Calpains -- 8.4 Oxidative Stress -- 8.4.1 Direct Modification of Sarcomeric Proteins -- 8.4.2 Modification of Sarcomeric Proteins by ROS-Sensitive Enzymes -- 8.4.3 ROS-Induced Cleavage of Sarcomeric Proteins -- 8.5 Phosphatases and Kinases -- 8.5.1 Calcineurin and Modulators of the Calcineurin Pathway -- 8.5.2 Protein Kinase C -- 8.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: The Nuclear Envelope in Cardiac Health and Disease -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.1.1 Nesprins and the ONM -- 9.1.2 SUN Domain Proteins -- 9.1.3 Lamins and the INM -- 9.1.4 Nuclear Envelopathies -- 9.1.5 The LINC Complex in Cardiomyocytes. , 9.2 The Role of the NE in Cardiac Disease -- 9.3 Mechanistic Insights into NE-Associated Cardiomyopathy -- 9.3.1 Mechanical Efficiency and Structural Instability -- 9.3.2 Mechanosignalling and Gene Regulation -- 9.3.3 Intercalated Disc Disorganisation -- 9.3.4 Autophagy and Related Signalling Mechanisms -- 9.3.5 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signalling -- 9.3.6 Other Signalling Pathways Deregulated by Perturbations to the NE -- 9.4 Premature Ageing and Cardiomyopathy -- 9.4.1 Therapeutic Potential -- 9.4.2 Prelamin A and `Premature Cardiac Senescence´ -- 9.5 Summary -- References -- Chapter 10: AMP-Activated Protein Kinase: A Metabolic Stress Sensor in the Heart -- 10.1 Evolving Physiological Roles -- 10.2 Molecular Structure -- 10.3 Localization -- 10.4 Activation -- 10.5 Regulation -- 10.6 Cardiac Signaling in Health and Disease -- 10.7 Pharmacological Activation -- 10.8 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 11: How Cardiac Cytoarchitecture Can Go Wrong: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy as a Paradigm for Genetic Disease of the He... -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Complexity Beyond One Mutation, One Gene, One Phenotype -- 11.3 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy -- 11.3.1 Clinical Features and Therapeutic Options -- 11.3.2 Genetics of HCM -- 11.3.2.1 Sarcomeric HCM Mutations -- 11.3.2.2 Mutations in Non-contractile Proteins Causing HCM -- 11.3.2.3 Phenocopies of HCM and Mitochondrial Disease -- 11.3.3 Pathomechanisms of HCM -- 11.4 Next-Generation Sequencing: `Opening Pandora´s Box´? -- References -- Chapter 12: Cardiac Cytoarchitecture: How to Maintain a Working Heart-Waste Disposal and Recycling in Cardiomyocytes -- 12.1 Cellular Degradation Systems -- 12.1.1 The Ubiquitin-Proteasome System -- 12.1.2 Autophagy/Lysosome -- 12.1.3 Proteases -- 12.1.3.1 Matrix Metalloproteinases -- 12.1.3.2 Cathepsins -- 12.1.3.3 Calpains -- 12.1.3.4 Caspases. , 12.1.3.5 Mitochondrial Proteases -- 12.1.4 Chaperones and Heat-Shock Proteins -- 12.1.5 Cooperativity Between Degradation Systems -- 12.2 Roles of Degradation Systems in the Heart -- 12.2.1 Balance Synthesis/Degradation -- 12.2.2 Protein Quality Control and the ERAD System -- 12.2.3 The Role of Substrate-Ubiquitylation Beyond Degradation -- 12.2.4 Cardiac-Specific Adaptations of the Degradation Machineries -- 12.2.5 The Cardiac Degradation Process -- 12.3 E3-Ligases with Cardiac Roles -- 12.3.1 MuRF Protein Family -- 12.3.2 Cullin-Type E3-Ligases -- 12.3.2.1 Regulation -- 12.3.2.2 Cullin1-Atrogin1 -- 12.3.2.3 Other Cullin-1 Substrate Adaptors -- 12.3.2.4 Cullin-2 -- 12.3.2.5 Cullin-3 -- 12.3.2.6 Cullin-4 -- 12.3.2.7 Cullin-5 -- 12.3.2.8 Cullin-7 -- 12.3.3 Other RING-Type E3-Ligases -- 12.3.3.1 Parkin -- 12.3.3.2 IAPs -- 12.3.3.3 Nrdp1/RNF41 -- 12.3.3.4 MDM2, MDM4/MDMX -- 12.3.3.5 Cbl -- 12.3.4 HECT-Type E3-Ligases -- 12.3.4.1 Nedd4 E3-Ligases -- 12.3.4.2 Ube3a/E6AP -- 12.3.5 U-Box-Type E3-Ligases -- 12.3.5.1 Ube4A -- 12.3.5.2 PRP19 -- 12.3.5.3 CHIP (C-Terminus of HSP70-Interacting Protein) -- References.
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    ISSN: 1546-170X
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: [Auszug] The gene for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) encodes three spliced isoforms. Although the heparin binding capacities of these isoforms differ, little is known about their differential functions in vivo. We generated mice expressing exclusively the VEGF120 isoform (VEGF 120/120 mice) ...
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Pericytes ; Smooth muscle ; Endothelium ; Brain capillaries ; Pig
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In the brain, the microvascular system is composed of endothelial cells surrounded by a layer of pericytes. The lack of smooth muscle cells in this tissue suggests that any contractile function must be performed by one or both of these cell types. The present study was undertaken in order to identify cells in terminal blood vessels that contain smooth muscle-like contractile machinery. Endothelial cells were reactive with antibodies against smooth muscle myosin but showed no other smooth muscle-related features. In contrast, pericytes of intact microvessels showed a pattern of protein expression similar to that of smooth muscle cells. Pericytes also behaved in tissue culture like cultured smooth muscle cells, with regard to the changes in expression of smooth muscle-related proteins. These data confirm the close relationship between smooth muscle cells and pericytes, and point to their contractile function in the brain microvessels.
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Key words: Pericytes ; Smooth muscle ; Endothelium ; Brain capillaries ; Pig
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. In the brain, the microvascular system is composed of endothelial cells surrounded by a layer of peri-cytes. The lack of smooth muscle cells in this tissue suggests that any contractile function must be performed by one or both of these cell types. The present study was undertaken in order to identify cells in terminal blood vessels that contain smooth muscle-like contractile machinery. Endothelial cells were reactive with antibodies against smooth muscle myosin but showed no other smooth muscle-related features. In contrast, pericytes of intact microvessels showed a pattern of protein expression similar to that of smooth muscle cells. Pericytes also behaved in tissue culture like cultured smooth muscle cells, with regard to the changes in expression of smooth muscle-related proteins. These data confirm the close relationship between smooth muscle cells and peri-cytes, and point to their contractile function in the brain microvessels.
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  • 5
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Heart failure reviews 5 (2000), S. 259-269 
    ISSN: 1573-7322
    Keywords: myofibrillogenesis ; muscle cytoskeleton ; in-tercalated disk ; dilated cardiomyopathy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The unique cytoarchitecture of cardiomyocytes arises by complex interactions of different filamentous structures of the cytoskeleton. Intermediate filaments of the non-sarcomeric cytoskeleton are not essential for development but important for maintenance of myofibrils. Myofibrils consist of contractile proteins involved in force generation and the muscle cytoskeleton framework. The latter is essential for proper assembly and maintenance as well as for interaction with other cardiomyocytes or the extracellular matrix, thus being involved in force transmission. The information for sarcomere assembly is encoded in the proteins and some domains essential for faithful incorporation have been identified by epitope tagging experiments. Many KO mutations result in embryonic lethal phenotypes and new techniques e.g. using cardiomyocytes derived from ES cell-lines will have to be developed that allow to study such mutations in cardiomyocytes rather than whole organisms. Alterations in the expression levels of several proteins of the muscle cytoskeleton or impairment of their function by point mutations can result in increased mechanical stress in the cardiomyocytes which finally leads to cellular responses such as the development of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). MLP (muscle-LIM-protein) deficient mice develop DCM and changes in the mechanical coupling of cardiomyocytes result in alterations at the intercalated disks and enhanced accumulation of adherens junction proteins. Therefore, controlled interactions between proteins of the muscle cytoskeleton and contractile proteins are essential to ensure proper cardiac function and a more detailed insight in these processes might provide new tools to improve the contractile efficiency of the cardiomyocytes and thus working output in cardiomyopathies.
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    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Journal of muscle research and cell motility 20 (1999), S. 569-579 
    ISSN: 1573-2657
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The development of myofibrils involves the formation of contractile filaments and their assembly into the strikingly regular structure of the sarcomere. We analysed this assembly process in cultured human skeletal muscle cells and in rat neonatal cardiomyocytes by immunofluorescence microscopy using antibodies directed against cytoskeletal and contractile proteins. In particular, the question in which temporal order the respective proteins are integrated into developing sarcomeres was addressed. Although sarcomeric myosin heavy chain is expressed as one of the first myofibrillar proteins, its characteristic A band arrangement is reached at a very late stage. In contrast, titin, then myomesin and finally C-protein (MyBP-C) gradually form a regularly arranged scaffold on stress fiber-like structures (SFLS), on non-striated myofibrils (NSMF) and on nascent striated myofibrils (naSMF). Immediately subsequent to the completion of sarcomere cytoskeleton formation, the labeling pattern of myosin changes from the continuous staining of SFLS to the periodic staining characteristic for mature myofibrils. This series of events can be seen most clearly in the skeletal muscle cell cultures and – probably due to a faster developmental progression – less well in cardiomyocytes. We therefore conclude that the correct assembly of a cytoskeletal scaffold is a prerequisite for correct thick filament assembly and for the integration of the contractile apparatus into the myofibril.
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