The Myosin Filament Superlattice in the Flight Muscles of Flies: A-band Lattice Optimisation for Stretch-activation?

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 361, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 823-838

  Squire, John M ^a   Bekyarova, Tanya ^c   Farman, Gerrie ^c   Gore, David ^c   Rajkumar, Ganeshalingam ^a   Knupp, Carlo ^a,d   Lucaveche, Carmen ^b   Reedy, Mary C ^b   Reedy, Michael K ^b   Irving, Thomas C ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

asynchronous flight muscle; cross bridge mechanism; Dipteran sarcomere structure; molecular motors; stretch activation

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLIGHT MUSCLE; FORELIMB; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HOUSE FLY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSECT; LETHOCERUS; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DIPTERA; INSECTA; LETHOCERUS; MUSCA DOMESTICA; SARCOPHAGIDAE;

EID: 33747055586     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.06.072     Document Type: Article

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