A mutation update for the FLNC gene in myopathies and cardiomyopathies

JAJ Verdonschot, EK Vanhoutte, GRF Claes… - Human …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Filamin C (FLNC) variants are associated with cardiac and muscular phenotypes. Originally,
FLNC variants were described in myofibrillar myopathy (MFM) patients. Later, high …

Structure and function of filamin C in the muscle Z-disc

Z Mao, F Nakamura - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Filamin C (FLNC) is one of three filamin proteins (Filamin A (FLNA), Filamin B (FLNB), and
FLNC) that cross-link actin filaments and interact with numerous binding partners. FLNC …

[HTML][HTML] Panorama of the distal myopathies

M Savarese, J Sarparanta, A Vihola, PH Jonson… - Acta …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Distal myopathies are genetic primary muscle disorders with a prominent weakness at onset
in hands and/or feet. The age of onset (from early childhood to adulthood), the distribution of …

The impact of mitochondrial deficiencies in neuromuscular diseases

J Cantó-Santos, JM Grau-Junyent, G Garrabou - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) are a heterogeneous group of acquired or inherited rare
disorders caused by injury or dysfunction of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord (lower …

Novel filamin C myofibrillar myopathy variants cause different pathomechanisms and alterations in protein quality systems

D Sellung, L Heil, N Daya, F Jacobsen, J Mertens-Rill… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Myofibrillar myopathies (MFM) are a group of chronic muscle diseases pathophysiologically
characterized by accumulation of protein aggregates and structural failure of muscle fibers …

Application of the Nicoya OpenSPR to Studies of Biomolecular Binding: A Review of the Literature from 2016 to 2022

EK Hanson, RJ Whelan - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Nicoya OpenSPR is a benchtop surface plasmon resonance (SPR) instrument. As with
other optical biosensor instruments, it is suitable for the label-free interaction analysis of a …

Deletion of obscurin immunoglobulin domains Ig58/59 leads to age-dependent cardiac remodeling and arrhythmia

A Grogan, A Coleman, H Joca, H Granzier… - Basic Research in …, 2020 - Springer
Obscurin comprises a family of giant modular proteins that play key structural and regulatory
roles in striated muscles. Immunoglobulin domains 58/59 (Ig58/59) of obscurin mediate …

When is an obscurin variant pathogenic? The impact of Arg4344Gln and Arg4444Trp variants on protein–protein interactions and protein stability

A Fukuzawa, D Koch, S Grover, M Rees… - Human Molecular …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Obscurin is a giant muscle protein that connects the sarcomere with the sarcoplasmic
reticulum, and has poorly understood structural and signalling functions. Increasingly …

Rare clinical phenotype of filaminopathy presenting as restrictive cardiomyopathy and myopathy in childhood

A Muravyev, T Vershinina, P Tesner, G Sjoberg… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background FLNC is one of the few genes associated with all types of cardiomyopathies, but
it also underlies neuromuscular phenotype. The combination of concomitant neuromuscular …

Molecular determinants of homo-and heteromeric interactions of Junctophilin-1 at triads in adult skeletal muscle fibers

D Rossi, AM Scarcella, E Liguori… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
In adult skeletal muscles, 2 junctophilin isoforms (JPH1 and JPH2) tether the sarcoplasmic
reticulum (SR) to transverse tubule (T-tubule) membranes, generating stable membrane …