Electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction of native thin filaments reveal species-specific differences in regulatory strand densities

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 391, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 193-197

  Cammarato, Anthony ^a   Craig, Roger ^b   Lehman, William ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Contraction; Electron microscopy; Indirect flight muscle; Tropomyosin; Troponin

Indexed keywords

TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN; TROPONIN T;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMUR; FROG; MOLECULE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARTORIUS MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIDER; THIN FILAMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANA PIPIENS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN T;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; ARTHROPODA; TARANTULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 72949114872     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.11.030     Document Type: Article

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