Published online before print January 17, 2008, doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.107.161687
© 2008 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Identification of Cardiac-Specific Myosin Light Chain Kinase
From the Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics (J.Y.C., M.T., L.E.B., M.L.G., H.K.), University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Fla; Cardiology Division (J.T.L.), University of California, San Francisco; Department of Radiation Oncology (N.H.), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo; Cardiovascular Research (E.O.W.), Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Mass; Department of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology (H.A.), Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan; Department of Biology (N.S.), Faculty of Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; and Cardiovascular Research Center (K.R.C.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Correspondence to Hideko Kasahara, MD, PhD, Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, 1600 SW Archer Rd, Gainesville, FL 32610-0274. E-mail hkasahar{at}phys.med.ufl.edu
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Two myosin light chain (MLC) kinase (MLCK) proteins, smooth muscle (encoded by mylk1 gene) and skeletal (encoded by mylk2 gene) MLCK, have been shown to be expressed in mammals. Even though phosphorylation of its putative substrate, MLC2, is recognized as a key regulator of cardiac contraction, a MLCK that is preferentially expressed in cardiac muscle has not yet been identified. In this study, we characterized a new kinase encoded by a gene homologous to mylk1 and -2, named cardiac MLCK, which is specifically expressed in the heart in both atrium and ventricle. In fact, expression of cardiac MLCK is highly regulated by the cardiac homeobox protein Nkx2-5 in neonatal cardiomyocytes. The overall structure of cardiac MLCK protein is conserved with skeletal and smooth muscle MLCK; however, the amino terminus is quite unique, without significant homology to other known proteins, and its catalytic activity does not appear to be regulated by Ca2+/calmodulin in vitro. Cardiac MLCK is phosphorylated and the level of phosphorylation is increased by phenylephrine stimulation accompanied by increased level of MLC2v phosphorylation. Both overexpression and knockdown of cardiac MLCK in cultured cardiomyocytes revealed that cardiac MLCK is likely a new regulator of MLC2 phosphorylation, sarcomere organization, and cardiomyocyte contraction.
Key Words: kinase • transcription • contraction
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Phosphorylation of both myosin heavy chain and myosin light chain (MLC) affects motor activity and thick filament assembly.1 In smooth muscle cells, phosphorylation of MLC2 by smooth muscle MLCK is thought to be responsible for the initiation of contraction.2 In skeletal and cardiac muscles, however, initiation of muscle contraction depends on voltage-gated L-type Ca2+ channels in the plasma membrane and T-tubules. Increased local Ca2+ concentrations allow the sarcoplasmic reticulum to release large amounts of Ca2+, which bind to troponin C followed by myosin–actin cross-bridge formation. During this process, MLCK potentiates peak tension in skeletal muscle1,3 and the force and rate of cross-bridge recruitment in cardiac myocytes.4,5
To date, smooth muscle (encoded by mylk1 gene) and skeletal (encoded by mylk2 gene) MLCKs have been characterized.3 Mouse skeletal muscle MLCK is predominantly expressed in skeletal muscle, and mouse smooth muscle MLCK is expressed in several tissues but predominantly in smooth muscle.6,7 Mutations in human skeletal MLCK on human chromosome 20 have been mapped to a disease locus for familial cardiac hypertrophy (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man no. 606566), suggesting that abnormal function of skeletal MLCK stimulates cardiac hypertrophy.8 However, the abundance of skeletal MLCK expression in the heart is controversial,8–10 and gene-targeted mice for skeletal MLCK appear to have normal cardiac function.10 Short-form (130-kDa) smooth muscle MLCK is expressed in the heart at lower levels than those detected in smooth muscle–rich organs such as gut, uterus, and lung.6,7 Mice with ablation of long-form smooth muscle MLCK appear to have normal cardiac function,11 and those with short-form ablation remain to be studied. These results suggest that an additional MLCK is preferentially expressed and functional in the heart because MLC2 phosphorylation in cardiac muscle is a key regulator of heart contraction.5
In the process of identifying genes regulated by the cardiac homeobox transcription factor Nkx2-5, we identified a gene product highly homologous to the previously characterized skeletal and smooth muscle MLCK. The sequence of this MLCK homolog has been available (National Center for Biotechnology Information [NCBI] UniGene no. Rn.43838 [rat], Mm.32804 [mouse]), yet limited information regarding this MLCK gene has sometimes confounded its identity with the previously characterized skeletal and smooth muscle MLCKs. In this study, we report the initial characterization of this MLCK regarding its cardiac-specific expression, intracellular localization, catalytic activity, and potential functions in sarcomere organization and cardiac contraction.
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The following materials and methods used for this study are described in detail in the online data supplement, available at http://circres.ahajournals.org.
- Cardiomyocyte preparation
- Animal models
- Cloning of cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle MLCK
- Production and infection of adenovirus
- Glutathione S-transferase (GST) fusion proteins (cardiac MLCK, MLC2v, MLC2a)
- Production of anti–cardiac MLCK antibody
- Northern and Western blotting
- Immunostaining
- Real-time PCR
- Phosphorylation assays in vitro and in cardiomyocytes
- Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis
- Simultaneous measurements of cell shortening and intracellular free calcium
- Statistical analyses
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Identification of a Cardiac-Specific MLCK as a Downstream Target of Cardiac Homeobox Protein, Nkx2-5
In Nkx2-5 knockdown neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (Figure 1A) and inducible Nkx2-5 knockout hearts (Figure 1B), reduced expression of Nkx2-5 dramatically decreased mRNA expression of the MLCK homolog (NCBI UniGene no. Rn.43838 [rat], Mm.32804 [mouse]). Because Nkx2-5 expression is nearly restricted to cardiac myocytes at the postnatal stage,12–14 we tested whether expression of the MLCK homolog is also cardiac-specific. Multitissue Northern blotting readily detected mRNA of the MLCK homolog specifically in the heart in both ventricle and atrium at neonatal and adult stages (Figure 1C, top gels).
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Hybridization of the same membrane with the skeletal MLCK-specific probe showed that the expression of skeletal MLCK is below the level of detection in the neonatal heart (Figure 1C, neonate, middle) and only weakly detected in adult ventricle (Figure 1C, adult, middle). The MLCK homolog is hereafter called cardiac MLCK.
The mouse cardiac MLCK gene (chromosome 8) encodes 795 aa with a predicted molecular mass of 86 kDa, excluding posttranslational modifications. The protein consists of a conserved kinase domain at the carboxyl terminus with 58% identity with skeletal MLCK and 44% identity with smooth muscle MLCK; however the amino-terminal domain is quite unique, with no significant homology to other known proteins, including MLCKs. Comparison of protein structure of cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle MLCKs, including an alternative gene product, telokin, which lacks a catalytic domain,3 is shown (Figure 2A). The amino acid sequence alignment of carboxyl terminus of cardiac MLCK to skeletal and long-form smooth muscle MLCK is shown in Figure 2B.
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Cardiac MLCK Protein Expression
We generated an affinity-purified antibody against the unique amino terminus of cardiac MLCK (amino acids 28 to 463) (Figure 3A, lanes 1 and 2). The specificity of the antibody was confirmed by its reactivity to hemagglutinin (HA)-tagged full-length cardiac MLCK (Figure 3A, lane 3), but not to HA-tagged full-length skeletal MLCK even at 10-fold abundance (Figure 3A, lanes 4 and 5), to which cardiac MLCK has a higher homology compared with smooth muscle MLCK. In neonatal heart lysates, cardiac MLCK protein with an approximate molecular mass of 90 kDa was readily detected in both ventricle and atrium at similar expression levels (Figure 3B), and its protein expression in heart lysates was 
0.5 µg/mg (equivalent to 2.3 ng of GST–cardiac MLCK in 5 µg of heart lysates) following densitometric analysis (Figure 3C), which is lower than skeletal MLCK levels in skeletal muscle previously reported (5 to 10 ng of skeletal MLCK in 2 µg of skeletal muscle lysates).6 The antibody against the amino terminus of cardiac MLCK does not cross-react with other proteins in skeletal muscle and lung lysates in which skeletal or smooth muscle MLCK is abundantly expressed (Figure 3C, lanes 4 and 5).6 An additional band migrating around 60 kDa was detected using the anti–cardiac MLCK antibody in heart lysates, which may be an alternatively spliced isoform or a degradation product of cardiac MLCK (see Figure 7). We confirmed the expression of 130-kDa short-form smooth muscle MLCK in the heart6 (estimated concentration 0.025 to 0.05 µg/mg), skeletal muscle, and more abundantly in the lung (0.5 to 1 µg/mg) (supplemental Figure I). Thus, cardiac MLCK protein expression is 10- to 20-fold more abundant than smooth muscle MLCK in the neonatal heart.
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Endogenous cardiac MLCK is diffusely localized in the cytoplasm of cardiomyocytes (Figure 3D, green, arrows; arrowheads, noncardiomyocyte); however, in some areas, striated staining of cardiac MLCK was observed. Interestingly, enlarged image of cardiomyocytes coimmunostained to detect actin (Figure 3D, red, localizing at I bands) and MLC2v (Figure 3D, blue, localizing at A bands) demonstrated that striated MLCK staining was colocalized with actin (Figure 3D, green and red) but not with MLC2v (Figure 3D, green and blue). Specificity of immunostaining and additional endogenous cardiac MLCK stainings are shown in supplemental Figure II.
Cardiac MLCK Phosphorylates MLC2 In Vitro and in Cardiomyocytes as Well as Potentially MLCK Itself
In vitro kinase assay demonstrated incorporation of 32P to GST-MLC2v and GST-MLC2a fusion proteins using HA-tagged cardiac MLCK expressed in 293 cells in the absence of Ca2+/calmodulin (supplemental Figure III), indicating that ectopically expressed cardiac MLCK is sufficient for phosphorylation of MLC2v and MLC2a without Ca2+/calmodulin. Because catalytic activity of skeletal and smooth muscle MLCK is Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent, this finding was tested in additional kinase assays in a quantitative manner and confirmed that cardiac MLCK phosphorylated MLC2v in the absence of Ca2+/calmodulin (Figure 4A, top, cardiac MLCK, control), and that addition of EGTA (Figure 4A, top, +EGTA), or Ca2+/calmodulin (Figure 4A, top, +Ca2+/calmodulin) had little effect on the catalytic activity of cardiac MLCK. Under the same condition, control experiments using HA-tagged skeletal MLCK performed side by side demonstrated strong Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase activities to MLC2v consistent with previous studies (Figure 4A, bottom, skeletal MLCK). In addition, HA-tagged cardiac as well as skeletal MLCKs purified with proteinase inhibitors appeared as single bands in Western blotting (Figure 3A, lanes 3 to 5). These results indicate that Ca2+/calmodulin-independent cardiac MLCK kinase activity is not likely attributable to our experimental conditions or to selective proteolytic cleavages of the Ca2+/calmodulin binding domain in cardiac MLCK.
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The estimated kinetic constants determined by Lineweaver–Burk plot were as follows: Km, 4.3±1.5 µmol/L; Vmax, 0.26±0.06 µmol/min per milligram; Vmax/Km ratio, 0.06 (without EGTA and Ca2+/calmodulin) (Figure 4B). The low Km value of cardiac MLCK indicating high affinity to the substrate is equivalent to skeletal MLCK to skeletal MLC (3.5 µmol/L) and smooth muscle MLCK to smooth muscle MLC (6 to 11 µmol/L).15,16 However, an indicator of efficiency of catalysis, Vmax/Km ratio of cardiac MLCK, is lower than this ratio for skeletal and smooth muscle MLCK toward their MLC substrates isolated from the same tissue (9.3 and 3.5, respectively).17 Therefore cardiac MLCK appears to have a high affinity and relatively low catalytic efficiency to MLC2v.
In cardiomyocytes, overexpression of cardiac MLCK increases MLC2v phosphorylation nearly 2.1-fold in a dose-dependent manner (Figure 4C). Conversely, decreased MLCK expression achieved by infection of 3 MLCK–short hairpin (sh)RNA adenoviruses targeting different MLCK sequences (Figure 4D, RNA interference [RNAi] cardiac MLCK-1, -2, -3) decreased MLC2v phosphorylation levels by 30% to 55%. The levels of cardiac MLCK protein expression in overexpressed (Figure 4E) and knockdown cardiomyocytes (Figure 4F) are shown.
Catalytic activities of smooth muscle and skeletal MLCKs are regulated by phosphorylation by upstream kinases as well as MLCKs themselves.18 Phosphorylation of cardiac MLCK was detected with anti–phospho-serine antibody (Figure 4G, P-ser) but not with anti–phospho-tyrosine antibody (Figure 4G, P-tyr; supplemental Figure IV). We also detected incorporation of 32P to cardiac MLCK itself in an in vitro kinase assay in which immunoprecipitated exogenous cardiac MLCK proteins expressed in 293 cells were used (Figure 4H). This result suggests that cardiac MLCK autophosphorylates MLCK or that MLCK upstream kinases physically interact with cardiac MLCK in 293 cells. The level of cardiac MLCK phosphorylation was increased with phenylephrine stimulation (Figure 4I, lanes 1 and 2 versus lanes 3 and 4), accompanied by an increased MLC2v phosphorylation (Figure 4J, lanes 1 and 2 versus lanes 3 and 4). Potential phosphorylation sites and kinases predicted by amino acid sequence conserved between mouse and rat cardiac MLCK, including protein kinase A, are listed in supplemental Table I.
Cardiac MLCK Promotes Sarcomere Organization and Increases Cardiomyocyte Contractility
We observed that cardiomyocytes in which cardiac MLCK was overexpressed displayed organized sarcomere structures characterized by straight, thick, striated actin bundles, as had been seen with overexpression of skeletal MLCK (Figure 5A, Ad-β-galactosidase [βgal] versus Ad-cardiac MLCK).19 Phalloidin intensity in individual cardiomyocyte was increased in the MLCK-overexpressing cardiomyocytes compared with control βgal-infected cardiomyocytes (Figure 5A and 5B). In MLCK knockdown cardiomyocytes using 3 RNAis showed slight changes in peripheral structure up to 96 hours after adenoviral infection (Figure 5C, RNAi control versus RNAi cardiac MLCK) accompanied by reduced phalloidin intensity in individual cardiomyocyte compared with cardiomyocytes infected with control adenoviral RNAi (Figure 5D). These results suggest that cardiac MLCK is involved in sarcomere organization.
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Consistent with morphological changes, overexpression of MLCK resulted in significantly increased cardiomyocyte contraction amplitude and kinetics of contraction and relaxation without a significant change in intracellular Ca2+ transients (Figure 6A through 6C, Ad-βgal versus Ad-cardiac MLCK). On the other hand, MLCK knockdown, targeting 3 specific sequences was without effect on cardiomyocyte contraction at the standard Ca2+ superfusate concentration (1.2 mmol/L) but with significant effect at the higher Ca2+ superfusate concentration (2.5 mmol/L), with the exception of –dL/dT in RNAi-1 (data not shown). These results suggest that alteration in sarcomere organization in MLCK knockdown cardiomyocytes may have an effect on function under increased demand.
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Cardiac MLCK Expression and MLC2v Phosphorylation in Mice With Nkx2-5 Knockout, Aging, and Post–Myocardial Infarction Heart Failure
To examine catalytic activities of cardiac MLCK in vivo, we first examined cardiac MLCK expression and MLC2v phosphorylation levels in Nkx2-5 knockout hearts at postnatal day 12 when expression of cardiac MLCK mRNA (Figure 7A) and protein (Figure 7B) were markedly reduced. Skeletal MLCK mRNA expression in Nkx2-5 knockout hearts was below the level of detection by Northern blotting (Figure 7A, skeletal MLCK); however, using quantitative real-time PCR, skeletal (2.55±0.04 fold, n=2) and smooth muscle MLCK (1.48±0.02 fold, n=2) expression were increased. Despite this apparent compensatory increase, the level of MLC2v phosphorylation was decreased in hearts from Nkx2-5 knockout mice by nearly 60% compared with age-matched control mice (Figure 7C).
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Cardiac MLCK mRNA increased during development from neonatal to adult stages and persisted in the aged hearts (Figure 7D). Of note, greater separation of RNA by agarose gel electrophoresis revealed 2 hybridized bands near 4.7 kb with similar intensities. Cardiac MLCK protein increased in hearts from embryonic day 10.5, neonates and adult, but was decreased in aged hearts (Figure 7E). Consistent with decreased cardiac MLCK protein in aged hearts (18 and 21 months old), MLC2v phosphorylation was decreased in aged hearts compared with postnatal day 12 hearts (Figure 7F).
We next examined cardiac MLCK expression in a post–myocardial infarction mouse model of heart failure 3 weeks after coronary artery ligation. At the mRNA level, cardiac MLCK expression in noninfarcted upper ventricular septal tissue was similar to tissue from sham-operated age-matched mice (Figure 7G, lanes 1 and 2 versus lanes 3 and 4). In contrast, cardiac MLCK protein was decreased in heart failure tissue compared with control tissue (Figure 7H, lanes 1 and 2 versus lanes 3 and 4). Furthermore, levels of MLC2v phosphorylation were decreased in heart failure compared with controls (Figure 7I). The lack of concordance between mRNA versus protein levels in neonatal and aged hearts and in failed hearts suggests altered posttranscriptional regulations of cardiac MLCK in aging and heart failure.
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In this study, we isolated a homolog of skeletal and smooth muscle MLCK that is preferentially expressed in the heart, herein named cardiac MLCK. Expression of cardiac MLCK mRNA was markedly downregulated shortly after reduction of Nkx2-5 expression by Nkx2-5 knockdown and inducible Nkx2-5 knockout. Nkx2-5 expression is nearly restricted to the heart in the postnatal stage,12–14 and expression of cardiac MLCK, its downstream target (either direct or indirect), was detected only in the heart using multitissue Northern blotting.
Cardiac MLCK has a similar overall structure to known skeletal and smooth muscle MLCKs and has a high affinity to MLC2v similar to skeletal MLCK to skeletal muscle MLC2 and smooth muscle MLCK to smooth muscle MLC2.17 However, its catalytic efficiency is lower, and it was not regulated by Ca2+/calmodulin or EGTA in vitro. Notably, for smooth muscle MLCK, which is also expressed in the heart, the amino acid sequence of substrates appears to be critical for affinity and catalytic activity, particularly an arginine residue in the third-position amino terminus to the phosphorylated serine residue (smooth muscle MLC [Arg-Ala-Thr-Ser]).15,16,20 The catalytic activity of smooth muscle MLCK toward skeletal MLC2, in which the critical Arg residue is replaced with Gly similar to MLC2v (skeletal MLC [Gly-Gly-Ser-Ser], MLC2v [Gly-Gly-Thr-Ser]), was reported as a Km value of 94 µmol/L and a Vmax/Km ration of 0.03.17 If similar values are applicable to MLC2v, these data imply that cardiac MLC2v may be as good a substrate for cardiac MLCK (Vmax/Km 0.06) as it is for smooth muscle MLCK but with distinct expression levels in neonatal hearts.
Under physiological conditions, the level of MLC2v phosphorylation is maintained relatively constant by well-balanced phosphorylation and phosphatase-induced dephosphorylation.21 Elevation of cytoplasmic [Ca2+] induced by infusion of Ca2+ did not increase MLC2v phosphorylation consistently.22–24 If Ca2+/calmodulin-independent catalytic activity, as well as high-affinity and relatively low catalytic efficiencies of cardiac MLCK toward MLC2v demonstrated in vitro, are applicable to in vivo, these previous studies may reflect functions of cardiac MLCK in the heart.
Increased expression of cardiac MLCK induced sarcomere organization in neonatal cardiomyocytes, as has been observed by overexpression of skeletal MLCK.19 Ser19 phosphorylation of MLC2 leading to potentiation of the force and speed of contraction has been well studied in smooth and skeletal muscle.3,18 Our findings demonstrate that overexpression of cardiac MLCK enhances cardiomyocyte contraction, likely because of a combination of increased MLC2 phosphorylation and organized sarcomere structure stably formed within 36 to 48 hours after MLCK adenoviral infection. On the other hand, decreased expression of cardiac MLCK by RNAi resulted, at most, in a 55% reduction of MLC2v phosphorylation and contributed to a reduction in overall cell motion only under increased demand at a 2.5 mmol/L Ca2+ superfusate concentration. Less dramatic functional effects observed with loss of cardiac MLCK expression may be attributable to remaining MLC2v phosphorylation by other MLC2 kinases, such as smooth muscle MLCK and protein kinase C,6,25 and by counterbalancing MLC2v phosphatase activities.
The amino terminus of cardiac MLCK, lacking homologies to known proteins, may have functions specific for cardiac MLCK. For instance, cardiac MLCK occasionally showed a striated expression pattern not overlapping with MLC2v in A bands but overlapping with actin in I bands. This finding may be interpreted that, locally, the interaction between MLCK and its substrate, MLC2v, may be transient or that cardiac MLCK may have additional functions including phosphorylation of other proteins. Of note, long-form smooth muscle MLCK also colocalizes with actin depending on the actin binding sequence consisting of repeat motifs (DFRXXL) located in the amino terminus,18,26 which was not found in cardiac MLCK.
Cardiac MLCK appeared to be phosphorylated; however, the phosphorylation sites of other MLCKs important for regulating their activities are not conserved in cardiac MLCK. These include 2 contiguous serine residues in the carboxyl terminus of the Ca2+/calmodulin binding sequence of smooth muscle MLCK by protein kinase A, protein kinase C, CaMKII (Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II) and PAK3 (789R, 790K; in Figure 2B); the autophosphorylation site of skeletal MLCK (amino terminus to the catalytic domain), smooth muscle MLCK (in the calmodulin binding domain and carboxyl terminus to this domain), and dictyostelium MLCK (between the catalytic and calmodulin binding domain).27–30 Phenylephrine stimulation resulted in increased phosphorylation of both cardiac MLCK and MLC2v. Whether increased cardiac MLCK phosphorylation directly increases MLC2v phosphorylation remains to be studied; however, this observation demonstrates 1 pathway for phosphorylation of cardiac MLCK, which indeed has several potential protein kinase A phosphorylation sites.
Cardiac MLCK protein expression appeared to be decreased in aged hearts and in heart failure in mice accompanied by decreased MLC2v phosphorylation. Because previous studies have demonstrated that MLC2v phosphorylation is decreased in patients with heart failure,31,32 and expression of a mutant MLC2v in transgenic mouse hearts that cannot be phosphorylated (Ser14, -15, and 19 to Ala mutations) leads to heart failure,33 it is possible that decreased cardiac MLCK protein expression may contribute to compromised contractile function in aging and in heart failure. Of note, a recent study reported upregulated cardiac MLCK mRNA expression in heart failure.34 In the present study, we found lack of concordance between mRNA and protein levels of cardiac MLCK that was likely attributable to altered posttranscriptional regulation of cardiac MLCK in aging and heart failure in mice.
In summary, we report the initial characterization of cardiac MLCK, which is likely a new regulatory factor for cardiac contraction and sarcomere organization.
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We thank E. Chan, T. Seki, Y. Ikeda, K. Ito, M. Nakayama, and N. Terada for valuable suggestions and technical support. During revision of the present manuscript, cardiac MLCK (mylk3; GenBank accession number EU403565) was identified and reported independently by Kitakaze and colleagues.34
Sources of Funding
This work was supported by an American Heart Association National Scientist Development Grant and NIH grant HL081577 (to H.K.).
Disclosures
None.
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*These authors contributed equally to this work.
Original received August 13, 2007; revision received December 16, 2007; accepted January 3, 2008.
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