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Editorial
. 2020 Sep 8;142(10):963-966.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.049268. Epub 2020 Sep 8.

A Phosphatase Anchor Weighs on the Heart

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Editorial

A Phosphatase Anchor Weighs on the Heart

Kathleen C Woulfe et al. Circulation. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; calcineurin; calcium signaling; hypertrophy.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. A model for regulation of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy by distinct pools of calcineurin.
A perinuclear pool of CaNAβ associated with mAKAPβ is stimulated by stress-induced Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM) signaling, resulting in activation of the pro-hypertrophic transcription factors nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) and myocyte enhancer factor-2 (MEF2). Stimulation of a pool of CaNAβ that is anchored to the subsarcolemmal region of cardiomyocytes by CIP4 also triggers hypertrophy through dephosphorylation of substrates that remain unknown.

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