Cooperativity between the two heads of rabbit skeletal muscle heavy meromyosin in binding to actin

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 926-937

  Conibear, Paul B ^a   Geeves, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MEROMYOSIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DATA ANALYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; ISOMERISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RABBIT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0031818992     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77581-2     Document Type: Article

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