Weikang Ma

ORCID

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2020-2023
Publications (10 Years): 43

Top Venues

International journal of molecular sciences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Circulation research

Illinois Institute of Technology

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Affiliation History

Illinois Institute of Technology Jul 1o 2018

United States

Research Assistant Professor :: Biology

Publications

Kristina B Kooiker, Saffie Mohran, Kyrah L Turner, Weikang Ma, Galina Flint, Lin Qi, Chengqian Gao, Yahan Zheng, Timothy S McMillen, Christian J Mandrycky, Amy Martinson, Max Mahoney-Schaefer, Jeremy C Freeman, Elijah Gabriela Costales Arenas, An-Yu Tu, Thomas C Irving, Michael A Geeves, Bertrand C W Tanner, Michael Regnier, Jennifer M Davis, Farid Mousavi-Harami
Danicamtiv increases myosin recruitment and alters the chemomechanical cross bridge cycle in cardiac muscle. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Maicon Landim-Vieira, Weikang Ma, Taejeong Song, Hosna Rastegarpouyani, Henry Gong, Isabella Leite Coscarella, Sylvia J P Bogaards, Stefan P Conijn, Coen A C Ottenheijm, Hyun S Hwang, Maria Papadaki, Björn C Knollmann, Sakthivel Sadayappan, Thomas C Irving, Vitold E Galkin, Prescott Bryant Chase, Jose Renato Pinto
Cardiac troponin T N-domain variant destabilizes the actin interface resulting in disturbed myofilament function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (23) (2023)
Weikang Ma, Carlos L Del Rio, Lin Qi, Momcilo Prodanovic, Srboljub M Mijailovich, Christopher Zambataro, Henry Gong, Rafael Shimkunas, Sampath K Gollapudi, Suman Nag, Thomas C Irving
Myosin in autoinhibited off state(s), stabilized by mavacamten, can be recruited via inotropic effectors. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Vivek P Jani, M Imran Aslam, Axel J Fenwick, Weikang Ma, Henry Gong, Gregory N Milburn, Devin Nissen, Ilton M Cubero Salazar, Olivia Hanselman, Monica Mukherjee, Marc K Halushka, Kenneth B Margulies, Kenneth S Campbell, Thomas C Irving, David A Kass, Steven Hsu
Right Ventricular Sarcomere Contractile Depression and the Role of Thick Filament Activation in Human Heart Failure With Pulmonary Hypertension. Circulation (2023)
Weikang Ma, Timothy S McMillen, Matthew Carter Childers, Henry Gong, Michael Regnier, Thomas C Irving
Structural OFF/ON transitions of myosin in relaxed porcine myocardium predict calcium-activated force. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (5) (2023)
Weikang Ma, Kyoung Hwan Lee, Christine E Delligatti, M Therese Davis, Yahan Zheng, Henry Gong, Jonathan A Kirk, Roger Craig, Thomas C Irving
The structural and functional integrities of porcine myocardium are mostly preserved by cryopreservation. The Journal of general physiology 155 (9) (2023)
Kristina B Kooiker, Saffie Mohran, Kyrah L Turner, Weikang Ma, Galina Flint, Lin Qi, Chengqian Gao, Yahan Zheng, Timothy S McMillen, Christian J Mandrycky, Amy Martinson, Max Mahoney-Schaefer, Jeremy C Freeman, Elijah Gabriela Costales Arenas, An-Yu Tu, Thomas C Irving, Michael A Geeves, Bertrand C W Tanner, Michael Regnier, Jennifer M Davis, Farid Mousavi-Harami
Danicamtiv increases myosin recruitment and alters the chemomechanical cross bridge cycle in cardiac muscle. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Weikang Ma, Vivek P Jani, Taejeong Song, Chengqian Gao, Henry Gong, Sakthivel Sadayappan, David A Kass, Thomas C Irving
The structural OFF and ON states of myosin can be decoupled from the biochemical super-relaxed and disordered-relaxed states. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Weikang Ma, Timothy S McMillen, Matthew Carter Childers, Henry Gong, Michael Regnier, Thomas C Irving
Structural OFF/ON transitions of myosin in relaxed porcine myocardium predict calcium-activated force. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (5) (2023)
Anthony L Hessel, Michel N Kuehn, Nichlas M Engels, Devin L Nissen, Johanna K Freundt, Weikang Ma, Thomas C Irving, Wolfgang A Linke
Titin-based force regulates cardiac myofilament structures mediating length-dependent activation. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Michelle Rodriguez Garcia, Jeffrey Schmeckpeper, Maicon Landim-Vieira, Isabella Leite Coscarella, Xuan Fang, Weikang Ma, Payton A Spran, Shengyao Yuan, Lin Qi, Aida Rahimi Kahmini, M Benjamin Shoemaker, James B Atkinson, Peter M Kekenes-Huskey, Thomas C Irving, Prescott Bryant Chase, Björn C Knollmann, José Renato Pinto
Disruption of Z-Disc Function Promotes Mechanical Dysfunction in Human Myocardium: Evidence for a Dual Myofilament Modulatory Role by Alpha-Actinin 2. International journal of molecular sciences 24 (19) (2023)
Anthony L Hessel, Nichlas M Engels, Michel Kuehn, Devin Nissen, Rachel L Sadler, Weikang Ma, Thomas C Irving, Wolfgang A Linke, Samantha P Harris
Myosin-binding protein C forms C-links and stabilizes OFF states of myosin. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Weikang Ma, Carlos L Del Rio, Lin Qi, Momcilo Prodanovic, Srboljub M Mijailovich, Christopher Zambataro, Henry Gong, Rafael Shimkunas, Sampath K Gollapudi, Suman Nag, Thomas C Irving
Myosin in autoinhibited off state(s), stabilized by mavacamten, can be recruited via inotropic effectors. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Weikang Ma, Timothy S McMillen, Matthew Carter Childers, Henry Gong, Michael Regnier, Thomas C Irving
Structural OFF/ON transitions of myosin in relaxed porcine myocardium predict calcium-activated force. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (5) (2023)
Weikang Ma, Timothy S McMillen, Matthew Carter Childers, Henry Gong, Michael Regnier, Thomas C Irving
Structural OFF/ON transitions of myosin in relaxed porcine myocardium predict calcium-activated force. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (5) (2023)
Weikang Ma, Timothy S McMillen, Matthew Carter Childers, Henry Gong, Michael Regnier, Thomas C Irving
Structural OFF/ON transitions of myosin in relaxed porcine myocardium predict calcium-activated force. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (5) (2023)
Weikang Ma, Carlos L Del Rio, Lin Qi, Momcilo Prodanovic, Srboljub M Mijailovich, Christopher Zambataro, Henry Gong, Rafael Shimkunas, Sampath K Gollapudi, Suman Nag, Thomas C Irving
Myosin in autoinhibited off state(s), stabilized by mavacamten, can be recruited via inotropic effectors. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Weikang Ma, Carlos L Del Rio, Lin Qi, Momcilo Prodanovic, Srboljub M Mijailovich, Christopher Zambataro, Henry Gong, Rafael Shimkunas, Sampath K Gollapudi, Suman Nag, Thomas C Irving
Myosin in autoinhibited off state(s), stabilized by mavacamten, can be recruited via inotropic effectors. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Anthony L Hessel, Michel Kuehn, Seong-Won Han, Weikang Ma, Thomas C Irving, Brent A Momb, Taejeong Song, Sakthivel Sadayappan, Wolfgang A Linke, Bradley M Palmer
Fast myosin binding protein C knockout in skeletal muscle alters length-dependent activation and myofilament structure. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Kristina B Kooiker, Saffie Mohran, Kyrah L Turner, Weikang Ma, Amy Martinson, Galina Flint, Lin Qi, Chengqian Gao, Yahan Zheng, Timothy S McMillen, Christian J Mandrycky, Max Mahoney-Schaefer, Jeremy C Freeman, Elijah Gabriela Costales Arenas, An-Yu Tu, Thomas C Irving, Michael A Geeves, Bertrand C W Tanner, Michael Regnier, Jennifer M Davis, Farid Mousavi-Harami
Danicamtiv Increases Myosin Recruitment and Alters Cross-Bridge Cycling in Cardiac Muscle. Circulation research (2023)
Weikang Ma, Timothy S McMillen, Matthew Carter Childers, Henry Gong, Michael Regnier, Thomas C Irving
Structural OFF/ON transitions of myosin in relaxed porcine myocardium predict calcium-activated force. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (5) (2023)
Vivek P Jani, Wenjing Qian, Shengyao Yuan, Thomas C Irving, Weikang Ma
EMD-57033 Augments the Contractility in Porcine Myocardium by Promoting the Activation of Myosin in Thick Filaments. International journal of molecular sciences 23 (23) (2022)
Peter O Awinda, Weikang Ma, Kyrah L Turner, Jing Zhao, Henry Gong, Mindy S Thompson, Kenneth S Campbell, Thomas C Irving, Bertrand C W Tanner
MgADP Promotes Myosin Head Movement toward Actin at Low [Ca 2+ ] to Increase Force Production and Ca 2+ -Sensitivity of Contraction in Permeabilized Porcine Myocardial Strips. International journal of molecular sciences 23 (23) (2022)
Anthony L Hessel, Weikang Ma, Nicole Mazara, Paige E Rice, Devin Nissen, Henry Gong, Michel Kuehn, Thomas C Irving, Wolfgang A Linke
Titin force in muscle cells alters lattice order, thick and thin filament protein formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (48) (2022)
Peter O Awinda, Weikang Ma, Kyrah L Turner, Jing Zhao, Henry Gong, Mindy S Thompson, Kenneth S Campbell, Thomas C Irving, Bertrand C W Tanner
MgADP Promotes Myosin Head Movement toward Actin at Low [Ca 2+ ] to Increase Force Production and Ca 2+ -Sensitivity of Contraction in Permeabilized Porcine Myocardial Strips. International journal of molecular sciences 23 (23) (2022)
Vivek P Jani, Wenjing Qian, Shengyao Yuan, Thomas C Irving, Weikang Ma
EMD-57033 Augments the Contractility in Porcine Myocardium by Promoting the Activation of Myosin in Thick Filaments. International journal of molecular sciences 23 (23) (2022)
Weikang Ma, Thomas C Irving
Small Angle X-ray Diffraction as a Tool for Structural Characterization of Muscle Disease. International journal of molecular sciences 23 (6) (2022)
Weikang Ma, Suman Nag, Henry Gong, Lin Qi, Thomas C Irving
Cardiac myosin filaments are directly regulated by calcium. The Journal of general physiology 154 (12) (2022)
Peter O Awinda, Weikang Ma, Kyrah L Turner, Jing Zhao, Henry Gong, Mindy S Thompson, Kenneth S Campbell, Thomas C Irving, Bertrand C W Tanner
MgADP Promotes Myosin Head Movement toward Actin at Low [Ca 2+ ] to Increase Force Production and Ca 2+ -Sensitivity of Contraction in Permeabilized Porcine Myocardial Strips. International journal of molecular sciences 23 (23) (2022)
Vivek P Jani, Wenjing Qian, Shengyao Yuan, Thomas C Irving, Weikang Ma
EMD-57033 Augments the Contractility in Porcine Myocardium by Promoting the Activation of Myosin in Thick Filaments. International journal of molecular sciences 23 (23) (2022)
Peter O Awinda, Weikang Ma, Kyrah L Turner, Jing Zhao, Henry Gong, Mindy S Thompson, Kenneth S Campbell, Thomas C Irving, Bertrand C W Tanner
MgADP Promotes Myosin Head Movement toward Actin at Low [Ca 2+ ] to Increase Force Production and Ca 2+ -Sensitivity of Contraction in Permeabilized Porcine Myocardial Strips. International journal of molecular sciences 23 (23) (2022)
Vivek P Jani, Wenjing Qian, Shengyao Yuan, Thomas C Irving, Weikang Ma
EMD-57033 Augments the Contractility in Porcine Myocardium by Promoting the Activation of Myosin in Thick Filaments. International journal of molecular sciences 23 (23) (2022)
Thuy P Dao, Yiran Yang, Maria F Presti, Michael S Cosgrove, Jesse B Hopkins, Weikang Ma, Stewart N Loh, Carlos A Castañeda
Mechanistic insights into enhancement or inhibition of phase separation by different polyubiquitin chains. EMBO reports 23 (8) (2022)
Henry M Gong, Weikang Ma, Michael Regnier, Thomas C Irving
Thick filament activation is different in fast- and slow-twitch skeletal muscle. The Journal of physiology (2022)
Peter O Awinda, Weikang Ma, Kyrah L Turner, Jing Zhao, Henry Gong, Mindy S Thompson, Kenneth S Campbell, Thomas C Irving, Bertrand C W Tanner
MgADP Promotes Myosin Head Movement toward Actin at Low [Ca 2+ ] to Increase Force Production and Ca 2+ -Sensitivity of Contraction in Permeabilized Porcine Myocardial Strips. International journal of molecular sciences 23 (23) (2022)
Weikang Ma, Marcus Henze, Robert L Anderson, Henry Gong, Fiona L Wong, Carlos L Del Rio, Thomas C Irving
The Super-Relaxed State and Length Dependent Activation in Porcine Myocardium. Circulation research 129 (6) (2021)
Venus Joumaa, Ian C Smith, Atsuki Fukutani, Timothy R Leonard, Weikang Ma, Srboljub M Mijailovich, Thomas C Irving, Walter Herzog
Effect of Active Lengthening and Shortening on Small-Angle X-ray Reflections in Skinned Skeletal Muscle Fibres. International journal of molecular sciences 22 (16) (2021)
Taejeong Song, James W McNamara, Weikang Ma, Maicon Landim-Vieira, Kyoung Hwan Lee, Lisa A Martin, Judith A Heiny, John N Lorenz, Roger Craig, Jose Renato Pinto, Thomas C Irving, Sakthivel Sadayappan
Fast skeletal myosin-binding protein-C regulates fast skeletal muscle contraction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (17) (2021)
Raúl Padrón, Weikang Ma, Sebastian Duno-Miranda, Natalia A Koubassova, Kyoung Hwan Lee, Antonio Pinto, Lorenzo Alamo, Gabriel Díaz-Serrano, Andrey K Tsaturyan, Thomas C Irving, Roger Craig
The myosin interacting-heads motif present in live tarantula muscle explains tetanic and posttetanic phosphorylation mechanisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (22) (2020)
Johan Lindqvist, Weikang Ma, Frank Li, Yaeren Hernandez, Justin Kolb, Balazs Kiss, Paola Tonino, Robbert van der Pijl, Esmat Karimi, Henry Gong, Josh Strom, Zaynab Hourani, John Edward Smith, Coen Ottenheijm, Thomas Irving, Henk L Granzier
Triggering typical nemaline myopathy with compound heterozygous nebulin mutations reveals myofilament structural changes as pathomechanism. Nature communications 11 (1) (2020)
Henry Gong, Weikang Ma, Shaoshuai Chen, Geng Wang, Ramzi Khairallah, Thomas C Irving
Localization of the Elastic Proteins in the Flight Muscle of Manduca sexta. International journal of molecular sciences 21 (15) (2020)
Weikang Ma, Matthew Childers, Jason Murray, Farid Moussavi-Harami, Henry Gong, Robert Samuel Weiss, Valerie Daggett, Thomas Irving, Michael Regnier
Myosin dynamics during relaxation in mouse soleus muscle and modulation by 2'-deoxy-ATP. The Journal of physiology 598 (22) (2020)
Sage A Malingen, Anthony M Asencio, Julie A Cass, Weikang Ma, Thomas C Irving, Thomas L Daniel
In vivo X-ray diffraction and simultaneous EMG reveal the time course of myofilament lattice dilation and filament stretch. The Journal of experimental biology 223 (Pt 17) (2020)

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Weikang Ma