Myosin isoforms show different strokes for different blokes

Robert J. Barsotti, J. A. Dantzig, Y. E. Goldman

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Abstract

Spectroscopic evidence for tilting of smooth muscle, but not skeletal muscle, myosin heads when ADP dissociates suggests mechanisms for the adaptations of these muscle types for their specialized roles.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalNature structural biology
Volume3
StatePublished - Jan 1 1996

Keywords

  • Animals
  • Muscle
  • Myosins
  • Skeletal
  • Smooth
  • adenosine diphosphate
  • electron spin resonance
  • energy transfer
  • muscle contraction
  • myosin
  • myosin adenosine triphosphatase
  • myosin subfragment 1
  • priority journal
  • short survey
  • skeletal muscle
  • smooth muscle
  • structure analysis

Disciplines

  • Molecular Biology

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