Ultrafast force-clamp spectroscopy of single molecules reveals load dependence of myosin working stroke

Nature Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1013-1019

  Capitanio, Marco ^a,b   Canepari, Monica ^c   Maffei, Manuela ^c   Beneventi, Diego ^a   Monico, Carina ^a   Vanzi, Francesco ^a,b   Bottinelli, Roberto ^c,d   Pavone, Francesco Saverio ^a,b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d IRCCS   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^f International Center of Computational Neurophotonics   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; MYOSIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST FORCE CLAMP SPECTROSCOPY;

ACTINS; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; DNA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYOSINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867090608     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2152     Document Type: Article

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