Muscle force is generated by myosin heads stereospecifically attached to action

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6638, 1997, Pages 186-190

  Bershitsky, Sergey Y ^b   Tsaturyan, Andrey K ^c   Bershitskaya, Olga N ^b   Mashanov, Gregory I ^b   Brown, Paul ^a   Burns, Ronald ^a   Ferenczi, Michael A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN;

ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FROG; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STEREOSPECIFICITY;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLES; MYOSINS; RANA TEMPORARIA; TEMPERATURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALIA; ANURA;

EID: 0030743175     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40651     Document Type: Article

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