Electron tomography of insect flight muscle in rigor and AMPPNP at 23°C

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-301

  Schmitz, Holger ^a,c   Reedy, Mary C ^a   Reedy, Michael K ^a   Tregear, Richard T ^b   Winkler, Hanspeter ^a   Taylor, Kenneth A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Electron microscopy; Muscle structure; Myosin S1 proteins; Nucleotide triphosphate

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; FLIGHT MUSCLE; INSECT; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGOR; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA;

EID: 0030606307     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0641     Document Type: Article

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