Books and Reviews
Beard NA, Casarotto MG, Wei L, et al. Regulation of ryanodine receptors by calsequestrin: Effect of high luminal Ca2+ and phosphorylation. Biophys J. 2005;88:3444–3454.
Betzenhauser MJ, Marks AR. Ryandodine receptor channelopathies. Pflugers Arch. 2010;460:467–480.
Canepari M, Pellegrino MA, D'Antona G, Bottinelli R. Skeletal muscle fibre diversity and the underlying mechanisms. Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2010;199(4):465–476.
Cheng H, Lederer WJ. Calcium sparks. Physiol Rev. 2008;88:1491–1545.
Deng X, Wang Y, Zhou Y, et al. STIM and Orai: Dynamic intermembrane coupling to control cellular calcium signals. J Biol Chem. 2009;284(34):22501–22505.
Dominguez R. Tropomyosin: The gatekeeper's view of the actin filament revealed. Biophys J. 2011;100:797–798.
Dominguez R, Holmes KC. Actin structure and function. Annu Rev Biophys. 2011;40:169–186.
Farah CS, Reinach FC. The troponin complex and regulation of muscle contraction. FASEB J. 1995;9:755–767.
Franzini-Armstrong C, Protasi F. Ryanodine receptors of striated muscles: A complex channel capable of multiple interactions. Physiol Rev. 1997;77:699–729.
Hogan PG, Lewis RS, Rao A. Molecular basis of calcium signaling in lymphocytes: STIM and ORAI. Annu Rev Immunol. 2010;28:491–533.
Holda J, Klishin A, Sedova M, et al. Capacitative calcium entry. News Physiol Sci. 1998;13:157–163.
Holmes KC. Structural biology: Actin in a twist. Nature. 2009;457:389–390.
Horowitz A, Menice CB, Laporte R, Morgan KG. Mechanisms of smooth muscle contraction. Physiol Rev. 1996;76:967–1003.
Kaam KE, Stull JT. Signaling to myosin regulatory light chain in sarcomeres. J Biol Chem. 2011;286:9941–9947.
Khananshvili D. The SLC8 gene family of sodium–calcium exchangers (NCX)—structure, function, and regulation in health and disease. Mol Aspects Med. 2013;34:220–235.
Lab Tests Online. Troponins: The test. http://labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/troponin/tab/test [Accessed October 2014].
Lanner JT, Georgiou DK, Joshi AD, Hamilton SL. Ryanodine receptors: Structure, expression, molecular details, and function in calcium release. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2010;2:1–21 [a003996].
Launikonis BS, Murphy RM, Edwards JN. Toward the roles of store-operated Ca2+ entry in skeletal muscle. Pflugers Arch. 2010;460:813–823.
Lee B, Vermassen E, Yoon SY, et al. Phosphorylation of IP3R1 and the regulation of [Ca2+]i responses at fertilization: A role for the MAP kinase pathway. Development. 2006;133(21):4355–4365.
Luther PK. The vertebrate muscle Z-disc: Sarcomere anchor for structure and signaling. J Muscle Res Cell Motil. 2009;30:171–185.
Parekh AB, Penner R. Store depletion and calcium influx. Physiol Rev. 1997;77:901–930.
Rao JN, Rivera-Santiago R, Li XE, et al. Structural analysis of smooth muscle tropomyosin alpha and beta isoforms. J Biol Chem. 2012;287:3165–3174.
Serysheva II, Ludtke SJ, Baker ML, et al. Subnanometer-resolution electron cryomicroscopy-based domain models for the cytoplasmic region of skeletal muscle RyR channel. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008;105(28):9610–9615.
Spudich JA. The myosin swinging cross-bridge model. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2001;2(5):387–392.
Spudich JA. Hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy: Four decades of basic research on muscle lead to potential therapeutic approaches to these devastating genetic diseases. Biophys J. 2014;106:1236–1249.
Striggow F, Ehrlich BE. Ligand-gated calcium channels inside and out. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 1996;8:490–495.
Sweeny HL, Houdusse A. Structural and functional insights into the myosin motor mechanism. Annu Rev Biophys. 2010;39:539–557.
Teerlink JR. A novel approach to improve cardiac performance: Cardiac myosin activators. Heart Fail Rev. 2009;14(4):289–298.
Tskhovrebova L, Trinick J. Roles of titin in the structure and elasticity of the sarcomere. J Biomed Biotechnol. 2010;2010:612482 [1–7].
Wray S, Burdyga T. Sarcoplasmic reticulum function in smooth muscle. Physiol Rev. 2010;99:113–178.
Zhao X, Weisleder N, Han X, et al. Azumolene inhibits a component of store-operated calcium entry coupled to the skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor. J Biol Chem. 2006;281:33477–33486.
Journal Articles
Brown JH, Zhou Z, Reshetnikova L, et al. Structure of the mid-region of tropomyosin: Bending and binding sites for actin. Proc Nat Acad Sci U S A. 2005;102:18878–18883.
Cannell MB, Cheng H, Lederer WJ. The control of calcium release in heart muscle. Science. 1995;268:1045–1049.
Finer JT, Simmons RM, Spudich JA. Single myosin molecule mechanics: Piconewton forces and nanometre steps. Nature. 1994;368:113–119.
Gordon AM, Huxley AF, Julian FJ. The variation in isometric tension with sarcomere length in vertebrate muscle. J Physiol. 1966;184:170–192.
Khananshvili D. The SLC8 gene family of sodium-calcium exchangers (NCX)—structure, function, and regulation in health and disease. Mol Aspects Med. 2013;34(2–3):220–235.
Li XE, Tobacman LS, Mun JY, et al. Tropomyosin position on F-actin revealed by EM reconstruction and computational chemistry. Biophys J. 2011;100:1005–1013.
Mickelson JR, Louis CF. Malignant hyperthermia: Excitation-contraction coupling, Ca2+-release channel, and cell Ca2+ regulation defects. Physiol Rev. 1996;76:537–592.