The stiffness of rabbit skeletal actomyosin cross-bridges determined with an optical tweezers transducer

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1424-1438

  Veigel, Claudia ^a   Bartoo, Marc L ^a   White, David C S ^a   Sparrow, John C ^a   Molloy, Justin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0031656226     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)74061-5     Document Type: Article

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