Myosin VI: how do charged tails exert control?
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Molecular dynamics simulations and single molecule experiments are used to suggest that charged helices in the medial tail domain participate in myosin VI dimerization (Kim et al., 2010), which reinforces the mechanism that unfolding of the three helix bundle in the proximal tail serves as a lever arm extension.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Structure
دوره 18 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010