Towards an atomic model of the thick filaments of muscle

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 275, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-41

  Padrón, Raúl ^a   Alamo, Lorenzo ^a   Murgich, Juan ^a   Craig, Roger ^b  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronmicroscopy; Muscle; Myosin; Structure; Thick filaments

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN; POLYMER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPIDER;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; TARANTULA;

EID: 0032498237     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1448     Document Type: Article

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