Can a myosin molecule bind to two actin filaments?
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 271 (5643), 325-329
- https://doi.org/10.1038/271325a0
Abstract
In striated muscles the 2 heads of 1 myosin molecule are able to interact with different actin filaments. This may provide a simple explanation for the appearance and arrangement of cross-bridges in insect flight muscle in rigor.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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