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The role of calcium entry in cardiac excitation-contraction coupling was subsequently explained by the finding that calcium release from the cardiac SR, unlike that of skeletal muscle, depends on a small calcium influx across the plasma membrane in a process called âcalcium-triggered calcium releaseâ. 36 Calcium release from the cardiac SR, which causes localized âcalcium sparksâ that can be visualized when cells are injected with calcium-sensitive dyes, 37 38 is a critical ...
1 Thin filaments in smooth muscle do not contain troponin. 2  calcium does not bind to troponin but, rather, to a protein called calmodulin. 3  The calcium-calmodulin complex 'activates' myosin which then binds to actin & contraction (swivelling of cross-bridges) begins. TROPONIN-Troponin molecules have binding sites for calcium ions. 2  When a calcium ion fills this site it causes a change in the shape and position of TROPONIN. 3  And, when TROPONIN shifts, it pulls the TROPOMYOSIN to which it is attached.