An insert in the motor domain determines the functional properties of expressed smooth muscle myosin isoforms

Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 103-110

  Rovner, Arthur S ^a   Freyzon, Yelena ^b   Trybus, Kathleen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN STOMACH; BACULOVIRUS; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; INSECT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTINS; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOSIN SUBFRAGMENTS; MYOSINS; RABBITS; SPODOPTERA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; INSECTA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0031031962     PISSN: 01424319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018689102122     Document Type: Article

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