The harder the climb the better the view: The impact of substrate stiffness on cardiomyocyte fate

S Querceto, R Santoro, A Gowran, B Grandinetti… - Journal of molecular and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The quest for novel methods to mature human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived
cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) for cardiac regeneration, modelling and drug testing has …

Walking with giants: The challenges of variant impact assessment in the giant sarcomeric protein titin

TGR Weston, M Rees, M Gautel… - WIREs Mechanisms of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Titin, the so‐called “third filament” of the sarcomere, represents a difficult challenge for the
determination of damaging genetic variants. A single titin molecule extends across half the …

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Giant modular sarcomeric proteins such as titin have come under increasing scrutiny for
their contributions to diseases such as skeletal and cardiac myopathies. Many variants in …

Titin switches from an extensible spring to a mechanical rectifier upon muscle activation

C Squarci, P Bianco, M Reconditi, M Caremani… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
In contracting striated muscle titin acts as a spring in parallel with the array of myosin motors
in each half-sarcomere and could prevent the intrinsic instability of thousands of serially …