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SUBMITTER: Iwamoto H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1560076 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Iwamoto Hiroyuki H Inoue Katsuaki K Yagi Naoto N
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20060301 1587
Insect flight muscle is known for its crystal-quality regularity of contractile protein arrangement within a sarcomere. We have previously shown by X-ray microdiffraction that the crystal-quality regularity in bumble-bee flight muscle is not confined within a sarcomere, but extends over the entire length of a myofibril (>1000 sarcomeres connected in series). Because of this, the whole myofibril may be regarded as a millimetre-long, natural single protein crystal. Using bright X-ray beams from a ...[more]