Foster DB, Huang R, Hatch V, Craig R, Graceffa P, Lehman W, Wang CL. Modes of Caldesmon Binding to Actin: Sites of Caldesmon Contact and Modulation of Interactions by Phosphorylation. J. Biol. Chem. 2004 Dec 17; 279(51):53387-94.
Foster DB, Noguchi T, VanBuren P, Murphy AM, Van Eyk JE. C-terminal truncation of cardiac troponin I causes divergent effects on ATPase and force: implications for the pathophysiology of myocardial stunning. Circ. Res. 2003 Nov 14;93(10):917-24.
Buscemi N, Foster DB, Neverova I, Van Eyk JE. p21-activated kinase increases the calcium sensitivity of rat triton-skinned cardiac muscle fiber bundles via a mechanism potentially involving novel phosphorylation of troponin I. Circ. Res. 2002 Sep 20;91(6):509-16.
Rembold CM, Foster DB, Strauss JD, Wingard CJ, Eyk JE. cGMP-mediated phosphorylation of heat shock protein 20 may cause smooth muscle relaxation without myosin light chain dephosphorylation in swine carotid artery. J. Physiol. 2000 May 1;524 Pt 3:865-78.
Foster DB, Shen LH, Kelly J, Thibault P, Van Eyk JE, Mak AS. Phosphorylation of caldesmon by p21-activated kinase. Implications for the Ca(2+) sensitivity of smooth muscle contraction. J. Biol. Chem. 2000 Jan 21;275(3):1959-65.
Foster DB, Van Eyk JE. In search of the proteins that cause myocardial stunning. Circ. Res. 1999 Sep 3;85(5):470-2.
Van Eyk JE, Arrell DK, Foster DB, Strauss JD, Heinonen TY, Furmaniak-Kazmierczak E, Cote GP, Mak AS. Different molecular mechanisms for Rho family GTPase-dependent, Ca2+-independent contraction of smooth muscle. J. Biol. Chem. 1998 Sep 4;273(36):23433-9.
Tsuruda TS, Watson MH, Foster DB, Lin JJ, Mak AS. Alignment of caldesmon on the actin-tropomyosin filaments. Biochem. J. 1995 Aug 1;309 (Pt 3):951-7.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Director, Laboratory of Cardiovascular Biochemistry
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ross Research Building, Room 847
720 Rutland Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (410)614-0027
Email: dbrianfoster@jhmi.edu
