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A composite approach towards a complete model of the myosin rod.
Proteins - 1 Jan 2016
Korkmaz E Nihal, Taylor Keenan C, Andreas Michael P, Ajay Guatam, Heinze Nathan T, Cui Qiang, Rayment Ivan
Abstract excerpt
Sarcomeric myosins have the remarkable ability to form regular bipolar thick filaments that, together with actin thin filaments, constitute the fundamental contractile unit of skeletal and cardiac muscle. This has been established for over 50 years and yet a molecular model for the thick filament has not been attained. In part this is due to the lack of a detailed molecular model for the coiled-coil that...
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