Modelling muscle motor conformations using low-angle X-ray diffraction.

@article{Squire2003ModellingMM,
  title={Modelling muscle motor conformations using low-angle X-ray diffraction.},
  author={John M. Squire and Hind A. Al-Khayat and Jeffrey J. Harford and Liam Hudson and Thomas C. Irving and Carlo Knupp and Michael K. Reedy},
  journal={IEE proceedings. Nanobiotechnology},
  year={2003},
  volume={150 3},
  pages={
          103-10
        }
}
New results on myosin head organization using analysis of low-angle X-ray diffraction patterns from relaxed insect flight muscle (IFM) from a giant waterbug, building on previous studies of myosin filaments in bony fish skeletal muscle (BFM), show that the information content of such low-angle diffraction patterns is very high despite the 'crystallographically low' resolution limit (65 A) of the spacings of the Bragg diffraction peaks being used. This high information content and high… 
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