Different degrees of lever arm rotation control myosin step size
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Different degrees of lever arm rotation control myosin step size
Myosins are actin-based motors that are generally believed to move by amplifying small structural changes in the core motor domain via a lever arm rotation of the light chain binding domain. However, the lack of a quantitative agreement between observed step sizes and the length of the proposed lever arms from different myosins challenges this view. We analyzed the step size of rat myosin 1d (M...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1540-8140,0021-9525
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200212039