The heightened Ca2+ sensitivity of force found with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)-associated mutant cardiac troponin I (cTnIR145G; R146G in rodents) has been postulated to be an underlying cause of hypertrophic growth and premature sudden death in humans and in animal models of the disease. Expression of slow skeletal TnI (ssTnI), a TnI isoform naturally expressed in developing heart, also ...

Acute beta-adrenergic stimulation enhances cardiac contractility, accelerates muscle relaxation, and amplifies the inotropic and lusitropic response to increased stimulation frequency. These effects are modulated by phosphorylation of calcium handling and myofilament proteins such as troponin I (TnI) by protein kinase A (PKA). To more directly delineate the role of TnI PKA phosphorylation, tran...

As parallel and co-dependent entities, Indonesia's civil government and military (TNI) defy many of the most basic precepts of conventional civil-military relations theory. By analyzing the unique Indonesian relationship between these two entities, this essay supplements conventional theory. Judging the TNI against three criteria-responsibility, expertise, and corporatenesshttp://www.hawaii.edu...

The aim of our study was to evaluate the clinical relevance of serum troponin I (TnI) as a marker of ischemic myocardial injury by using an automated fluoroenzymometric assay. The reference range for serum TnI was established by measuring serum TnI concentrations in blood from 75 healthy donors. The concentration was then compared with serum creatine kinase (CK) activity, CK-MB mass, and myoglo...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to examine the recovery of spiked human cardiac troponin I (cTnI) results measured by four routine assays, and investigate possible interference from microclots. MATERIALS AND METHODS 457 consecutive samples with cTnI concentration below limit of quantitation (12 ng/L), declared by the Vitros TnI ES assay (reference assay), were measured on Beckman Coulter Accu T...

The leaf surface usually stays flat, maintained by coordinated growth. Growth perturbation can introduce overall surface curvature, which can be negative, giving a saddle-shaped leaf, or positive, giving a cup-like leaf. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms that underlie leaf flatness, primarily because only a few mutants with altered surface curvature have been isolated and studied. ...

To identify proteins that interact in vivo with muscle components we have used a genetic approach based on the isolation of suppressors of mutant alleles of known muscle components. We have applied this system to the case of troponin I (TnI) in Drosophila and its mutant allele heldup2 (hdp2). This mutation causes an alanine to valine substitution at position 116 after a single nucleotide change...

beta-Adrenergic stimulation of the heart results in bisphosphorylation of the N-terminal extension of cardiac troponin I (TnI). Bisphosphorylation of TnI reduces the affinity of the regulatory site on troponin C (TnC) for Ca(2+) by increasing the rate of Ca(2+) dissociation. What remains unclear is how the phosphorylation signal is transmitted from one subunit of troponin to another. We have pr...

C have sometimes said that economists cannot agree about anything. An important issue, on which many economists do agree, however, is that, although it is obviously convenient to collect revenues through taxing businesses, there is little justification for taxing them. In the end, all taxes affect people in economic terms. There is little to gain, and potentially much to lose, by confusing the ...