Myosin cleft movement and its coupling to actomyosin dissociation

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 831-835

  Conibear, Paul B ^a   Bagshaw, Clive R ^a   Fajer, Piotr G ^b   Kovács, Mihály ^c,d   Málnási Csizmadia, András ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MYOSIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; PYRENE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DISSOCIATION; FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ACTOMYOSIN; ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; MYOSINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYRENES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0141596158     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb986     Document Type: Article

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