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Cardiovascular Research Advance Access originally published online on October 25, 2007
Cardiovascular Research 2008 77(4):667-675; doi:10.1093/cvr/cvm048
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Assembly and maintenance of the sarcomere night and day

Samuel Y. Boateng1 and Paul H. Goldspink2,*

1 The Center for Cardiovascular Research, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2 The Center for Cardiovascular Research, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 840 South Wood Street (M/C 715), Chicago, IL 60612, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 312 413 9076; fax: +1 312 413 2948. E-mail address: pgolds{at}uic.edu

The assembly of sarcomeric proteins into the highly organized structure of the sarcomere is an ordered and complex process involving an array of structural and associated proteins. The sarcomere has shown itself to be considerably more complex than ever envisaged and may be considered one of the most complex macromolecular assemblies in biology. Studies over the last decade have helped to put a new face on the sarcomere, and, as such, the sarcomere is being redefined as a dynamic network of proteins capable of generating force and signalling with other cellular compartments and metabolic enzymes capable of controlling many facets of striated myocyte biology.

KEYWORDS Sarcomere; Assembly

Time for primary review: 28 days


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