Low temperature traps myosin motors of mammalian muscle in a refractory state that prevents activation

Interacting-heads motif has been conserved as a mechanism of myosin II inhibition since before the origin of animals

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Thick Filament Mechano-Sensing in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscles: A Common Mechanism Able to Adapt the Energetic Cost of the Contraction to the Task

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Thick-Filament Extensibility in Intact Skeletal Muscle

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Myosin filament activation in the heart is tuned to the mechanical task

(2017) Massimo Reconditi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Minimum number of myosin motors accounting for shortening velocity under zero load in skeletal muscle

(2016) Luca Fusi et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Myosin light chain phosphorylation enhances contraction of heart muscle via structural changes in both thick and thin filaments

(2016) Thomas Kampourakis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FIT2D: a multi-purpose data reduction, analysis and visualization program

(2016) A. P. Hammersley   JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Force generation by skeletal muscle is controlled by mechanosensing in myosin filaments

(2015) Marco Linari et al.   NATURE

Sarcomere-length dependence of myosin filament structure in skeletal muscle fibres of the frog

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Myosin binding protein-C phosphorylation is the principal mediator of protein kinase A effects on thick filament structure in myocardium

(2012) Brett A. Colson et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY

A New State of Cardiac Myosin with Very Slow ATP Turnover: A Potential Cardioprotective Mechanism in the Heart

(2011) Pleuni Hooijman et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Motion of myosin head domains during activation and force development in skeletal muscle

(2011) M. Reconditi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Differential roles of regulatory light chain and myosin binding protein-C phosphorylations in the modulation of cardiac force development

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Myosin complexed with ADP and blebbistatin reversibly adopts a conformation resembling the start point of the working stroke

(2010) B. Takacs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Axial and Radial Forces of Cross-Bridges Depend on Lattice Spacing

(2010) C. David Williams et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Stabilization of Helical Order in the Thick Filaments by Blebbistatin: Further Evidence of Coexisting Multiple Conformations of Myosin

(2009) Sengen Xu et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Out Cold: Biochemical Regulation of Mammalian Hibernation – A Mini-Review

(2009) Kenneth B. Storey   GERONTOLOGY

Structural changes in myosin motors and filaments during relaxation of skeletal muscle

(2009) E. Brunello et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Myosin ATP turnover rate is a mechanism involved in thermogenesis in resting skeletal muscle fibers

(2009) M. A. Stewart et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Direct Modeling of X-Ray Diffraction Pattern from Contracting Skeletal Muscle

(2008) Natalia A. Koubassova et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Three-dimensional structure of vertebrate cardiac muscle myosin filaments

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