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Structural and functional responses of mammalian thick filaments to alterations in myosin regulatory light chains.
Journal of structural biology - 1 Jan 1998
Levine R J, Yang Z, Epstein N D, Fananapazir L, Stull J T, Sweeney H L
Abstract excerpt
The ordered array of myosin heads, characteristic of relaxed striated muscle thick filaments, is reversibly disordered by phosphorylating myosin regulatory light chains, decreasing temperature and/or ionic strength, increasing pH, and depleting nucleotide. In the case of light chain phosphorylation, disorder, most likely due to a change in charge affecting the light chain amino-terminus, reflects increased myosin...
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