Site-directed spectroscopic probes of actomyosin structural dynamics

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 347-369

  Thomas, David D ^a   Kast, David ^a   Korman, Vicci L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disorder; EPR; Fluorescence; Luminescence; Mobility; Spin label

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM ION; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN II; NUCLEOTIDE; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DYNAMICS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; FORCE; LIGHT CHAIN; LUMINESCENCE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STROBOSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTOMYOSIN; ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; MOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STROBOSCOPY;

EID: 67650334401     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.35.040405.102118     Document Type: Review

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