Insight into the actin-myosin motor from x-ray diffraction on muscle.

@article{Bershitsky2009InsightIT,
  title={Insight into the actin-myosin motor from x-ray diffraction on muscle.},
  author={Sergey Y. Bershitsky and Michael Alan Ferenczi and Natalia A Koubassova and Andrey K. Tsaturyan},
  journal={Frontiers in bioscience},
  year={2009},
  volume={14},
  pages={
          3188-213
        }
}
The origin of reflections in the x-ray diffraction pattern from striated muscle and their use for understanding the structural organization of the contractile machinery are presented and discussed. Results of x-ray diffraction experiments obtained by a number of research groups using a variety of protocols revealed structural changes in contracting muscles which are interpreted in terms of molecular movements that underlie force generation. Some of these data are in line with the widely… 
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