High flexibility of the actomyosin crossbridge resides in skeletal muscle myosin subfragment-2 as demonstrated by a new single molecule assay

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-126

  Gundapaneni, Deepika ^a   Xu, Jin ^a   Root, Douglas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Coiled coil; Hinge; Myosin subfragment 2; Single molecule microscopy; Torsional stiffness

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MEROMYOSIN; MYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THIN FILAMENT;

ACTINS; ACTOMYOSIN; ANIMALS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN SUBFRAGMENTS; MYOSIN TYPE II; PLIABILITY; RABBITS;

EID: 12844288158     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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