On the mechanism of energy transduction in myosin subfragment 1

J. Botts, R. Takashi, P. Torgerson, T. Hozumi, A. Muhlrad, D. Mornet, M. F. Morales

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Abstract

It is proposed that the myosin subfragment 1 moiety of the muscle contractile apparatus is a self-contained 'engine' whose operational plan is based on the interactive nature of ATP (or degradation intermediate) binding and actin binding, made possible by an intersite communication system. It is suggested that the spatial information required for examining this engine can, at least provisionally, be derived from fluorescence resonance energy transfer measurements interpreted by the Forster equation and that the existence of an intersite communication system can be deduced from piecewise detection of interacting pairs of points.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2060-2064
Number of pages5
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume81
Issue number7 I
DOIs
StatePublished - 1984

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