Advances in Muscle Contraction Studies
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2010) | Viewed by 26670
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Interests: ATP hydrolysis-driven motor proteins; biochemical and biophysical approaches to examining mechanisms by which protein-protein interactions lead to large conformational changes resulting in translational or rotational motion; structure and function of the photosynthetic F1-ATPase motor protein
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Keywords
- muscle contraction mechanism
- models
- motor proteins
- cell motility
- actin-myosin ATPase
- physical chemistry of water; water solitons
- hydraulic compression
- ATP hydrolysis
- cytoplasm steaming
- bioenergetics
- proton-motive-force
- Brownian motor
- actin motors
- microtubule motors
- plant specific motors
- transport of proteins and vesicles
- RNA polymerase
- topoisomerases
- Fokker-Planck equation
- Monte Carlo method
- molecular dynamics
- brownian motor
- FRET
- electrophysiology
- optical tweezers
- magnetic tweezers
- locomotion