Component
Cardiac and slow skeletal troponin C / TNNC1
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1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
How nutrients influence it
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Other things that act on it
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How nutrients reach it in more than one step
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What it does
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What acts on it
Calcium binds the regulatory site of cardiac troponin C; the calcium-loaded ternary structure supports altered inhibitory troponin-I interactions with actin.
Experimental context and source evidence
- compartment_description
- Sarcomeric thin-filament regulatory complex
- experimental_model
- Purified human cardiac troponin ternary core; crystallography
- limitations
- Actin-disengagement is a structural model; this is not a direct whole-heart force measurement or a smooth-muscle mechanism.
- nutrient_topic
- Calcium research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. · Calcium
- organism
- Homo sapiens
- plain_language
- Troponin C senses calcium to regulate cardiac contraction.
- primary_references
- [ca-takeda2003] Structure of the core domain of human cardiac troponin in the Ca2+-saturated form (2003). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12840750/ DOI: 10.1038/nature01780
- research_relationship_category
- binding
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Cardiac troponin core
Calcium: mechanism-first literature curation (2026-09-17) · lines 770–781
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Purified human cardiac troponin ternary core; crystallography · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### ca-cardiac-troponin-calcium-switch Calcium binds the regulatory site of cardiac troponin C; the calcium-loaded ternary structure supports altered inhibitory troponin-I interactions with actin. Condition category: normal nutrient_topic: Calcium research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. plain_language: Troponin C senses calcium to regulate cardiac contraction. organism: Homo sapiens tissue_or_cell_type: Cardiac troponin core experimental_model: Purified human cardiac troponin ternary core; crystallography limitations: Actin-disengagement is a structural model; this is not a direct whole-heart force measurement or a smooth-muscle mechanism. research_relationship_category: binding compartment_description: Sarcomeric thin-filament regulatory complex [ca-takeda2003] Structure of the core domain of human cardiac troponin in the Ca2+-saturated form (2003). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12840750/ DOI: 10.1038/nature01780
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The events it takes part in
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Situations it appears in
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In the sources
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Open hypotheses
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