Calponin is a calcium binding protein. Calponin tonically inhibits the ATPase activity of myosin in smooth muscle. Phosphorylation of calponin by a protein kinase which is dependent upon calcium binding to calmodulin releases the calponin’s inhibition of the smooth muscle ATPase.
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