Anisotropic contraction in forisomes: Simple models won't fit

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 368-378

  Peters, Winfried S ^a   Knoblauch, Michael ^b   Warmann, Stephen A ^c   Pickard, William F ^c   Shen, Amy Q ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ca2+ dependent contractility; Canavalia gladiata Jacq. DC; Contractile protein; Contraction kinetics; Glycine max L.; pH dependent contractility

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; DIVALENT CATION; FORISOME;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CANAVALIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; KINETICS; LEGUME; MUSCLE LENGTH; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN;

CALCIUM; CANAVALIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PROTEINS; SOYBEANS;

CANAVALIA; CANAVALIA GLADIATA; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 43249118952     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: 10970169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20266     Document Type: Article

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