Caldesmon is necessary for maintaining t
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Deng, Maoxian ;Mohanan, Sunish ;Polyak, Erzsebet ;Chacko, Samuel
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Caldesmon (CaD), a component of microfilaments in all cells and thin filaments in smooth muscle cells, is known to bind to actin, tropomyosin, calmodulin, and myosin and to inhibit actin‐activated ATP hydrolysis by smooth muscle myosin. Thus, it is believed to regulate smooth muscle con