{"title":"Aficamten reduces cardiac contractility by modifying the actomyosin interaction","authors":"Farid Moussavi-Harami, Michael Regnier","doi":"10.1038/s44161-024-00503-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Aficamten, a small-molecule myosin inhibitor, binds to the catalytic domain of cardiac myosin and reduces contraction by stabilizing the initial weak interaction between myosin and actin.","PeriodicalId":74245,"journal":{"name":"Nature cardiovascular research","volume":"3 8","pages":"893-894"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature cardiovascular research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44161-024-00503-2","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Aficamten, a small-molecule myosin inhibitor, binds to the catalytic domain of cardiac myosin and reduces contraction by stabilizing the initial weak interaction between myosin and actin.