Fluorescent probes of the orientation of myosin regulatory light chains in relaxed, rigor, and contracting muscle

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1836-1846

  Ling, Nicholas ^a   Shrimpton, Carolyn ^b   Sleep, John ^b   Kendrick Jones, John ^c   Irving, Malcolm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; TROPONIN; TROPONIN C;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; PSOAS MUSCLE; RABBIT; SARCOMERE; SARCOMERE LENGTH; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0029863187     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79749-7     Document Type: Article

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