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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Tonino P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5648799 | biostudies-other | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20171019 1
The contractile machinery of heart and skeletal muscles has as an essential component the thick filament, comprised of the molecular motor myosin. The thick filament is of a precisely controlled length, defining thereby the force level that muscles generate and how this force varies with muscle length. It has been speculated that the mechanism by which thick filament length is controlled involves the giant protein titin, but no conclusive support for this hypothesis exists. Here we show that in ...[more]