Maintenance of sarcomeric integrity in adult muscle cells crucially depends on Z-disc anchored titin

Titin is considered an integrator of muscle cell proteins but direct evidence is limited. Here, titin is inactivated in adult mouse muscles, which causes sarcomere disassembly, protein mis-expression and force impairment, recapitulating key alterations in critical illness myopathy patient muscles.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sandra Swist, Andreas Unger, Yong Li, Anja Vöge, Marion von Frieling-Salewsky, Åsa Skärlén, Nicola Cacciani, Thomas Braun, Lars Larsson, Wolfgang A. Linke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18131-2