Cross-correlated TIRF/AFM reveals asymmetric distribution of force-generating heads along self-assembled, "synthetic" myosin filaments

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1952-1960

  Brown, André E X ^a   Hategan, Alina ^b   Safer, Daniel ^b   Goldman, Yale E ^a,b   Discher, Dennis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; MYOSIN;

ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSKELETON; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MOLECULAR SIZE; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RABBIT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RABBITS;

EID: 65549148201     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.11.032     Document Type: Article

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