[HTML][HTML] Selective requirement of myosin light chain 2v in embryonic heart function

J Chen, SW Kubalak, S Minamisawa, RL Price… - Journal of Biological …, 1998 - ASBMB
Two major myosin light chain 2 isoforms are coexpressed in the early stages of murine
cardiogenesis, a cardiac ventricular isoform and a cardiac atrial isoform, each of which is
tightly regulated in a muscle cell-type-specific manner during embryogenesis (Chien, KR,
Zhu, H., Knowlton, KU, Miller-Hance, W., van Bilsen, M., O'Brien, TX, and Evans, SM (1993)
Annu. Rev. Physiol. 55, 77–95). We have disrupted myosin light chain 2v gene in mice and
monitored in vivo cardiac function in living myosin light chain 2v−/− embryos. The mutant …