Visualizing key hinges and a potential major source of compliance in the lever arm of myosin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 114-119

  Brown, Jerry H ^a   Kumar, V S Senthil ^a   O'Neall Hennessey, Elizabeth ^a   Reshetnikova, Ludmila ^a   Robinson, Howard ^b   Nguyen McCarty, Michelle ^a   Szent Györgyi, Andrew G ^a   Cohen, Carolyn ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycine; Light chain binding domain; Protein crystal structure; Regulation

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACOPECTEN MAGELLANICUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCALLOP; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTINS; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIVALVIA; CRYSTALLIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOSIN TYPE II; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

PLACOPECTEN MAGELLANICUS;

EID: 78651095543     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016288107     Document Type: Article

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