Evidence for the load-dependent mechanical efficiency of individual myosin heads in skeletal muscle fibers activated by laser flash photolysis of caged calcium in the presence of a limited amount of ATP

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2273-2278

  Sugi, Haruo ^a   Iwamoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Akimoto, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ushitani, Hiroko ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auxotonic shortening; Chemomechanical energy conversion; Muscle contraction

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM; MYOSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY CONVERSION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE; RABBIT; SARCOMERE LENGTH; WEIGHT BEARING;

ACETIC ACIDS; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CHELATING AGENTS; ETHYLENEDIAMINES; KINETICS; LASERS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOSPHATES; PHOTOLYSIS; RABBITS; SOLUTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032478267     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.5.2273     Document Type: Article

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