Molecular motors: Force and movement generated by single myosin II molecules

News in Physiological Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 213-218

  Rüegg, Caspar ^a   Veigel, Claudia ^a   Molloy, Justin E ^a   Schmitz, Stephan ^a   Sparrow, John C ^a   Fink, Rainer H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ISOPROTEIN; MYOSIN;

BINDING SITE; HUMAN GENOME; HYDROLYSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0036794780     PISSN: 08861714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/nips.01389.2002     Document Type: Review

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