Huxley’s model for muscle contraction revisited: The importance of microscopic reversibility

Topics in Current Chemistry

Volumn 369, Issue , 2015, Pages 285-316

  Dean Astumian, R ^a  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; ATP hydrolysis; Mechanochemical energy transduction; Molecular motor; Myosin

Indexed keywords

KINETICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

EID: 84945206807     PISSN: 03401022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/128_2015_644     Document Type: Chapter

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