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SUBMITTER: Kuhner S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3093495 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kühner Sebastian S Fischer Stefan S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110425 19
Myosin is a true nanomachine, which produces mechanical force from ATP hydrolysis by cyclically interacting with actin filaments in a four-step cycle. The principle underlying each step is that structural changes in separate regions of the protein must be mechanically coupled. The step in which myosin dissociates from tightly bound actin (the rigor state) is triggered by the 30 Å distant binding of ATP. Large conformational differences between the crystal structures make it difficult to perceive ...[more]