Myosin motors with artificial lever arms

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 6069-6074

  Anson, Michael ^a   Geeves, Michael A ^b   Kurzawa, Susanne E ^b   Manstein, Dietmar J ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin; Dictyostelium discoideum; Molecular motor; Spectrin repeat; actinin

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; MYOSIN SUBFRAGMENT 1;

ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NECK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 0029964751     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00995.x     Document Type: Article

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