Mechanisms of myosin II force generation. Insights from novel experimental techniques and approaches

DE Rassier, A Månsson - Physiological Reviews, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
… conducted with single myosin molecules, 61 myosins working … of 5.5 nm, generated during
a total step length of 9–13 nm. … 979 molecules (ie, from femtoNewtons to ~100 picoNewtons) …

Force and kinetics of fast and slow muscle myosin determined with a synthetic sarcomere–like nanomachine

V Buonfiglio, I Pertici, M Marcello, I Morotti… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
… of an ensemble of myosin molecules either engineered or … of ~ 500 nm is imposed so that
the force drops to zero. The … rate of the relevant kinetic steps of the fast myosin isoform which …

Matching Mechanics and Energetics of Muscle Contraction Suggests Unconventional Chemomechanical Coupling during the Actin–Myosin Interaction

I Pertici, L Bongini, M Caremani, M Reconditi… - … Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
… between mechanical and biochemical steps in the myosin–… ) of the myosin molecule (the
portion of the molecule containing … = 0 when the force in A1 is zero) ranging from −2.5 to 2.5 nm, …

A Myosin II-Based Nanomachine Devised for the Study of Ca2+-Dependent Mechanisms of Muscle Regulation

I Pertici, G Bianchi, L Bongini, V Lombardi… - … Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… , generating piconewton force and nanometer displacement … , consisting in reduced force
and step size generated by … cofilament made of rods and myosin molecules [39]. However, the …

Single-Molecule Biophysical Techniques to Study Actomyosin Force Transduction

Y Takagi, N Hundt, A Fineberg - Myosins: A Superfamily of Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
myosin-5a molecules, displaying ~74 nm steps since only … to detect pico-Newton forces and
nanometer displacements … of the actin presented to the myosin molecules is increased. The …

Single-molecule mechanics and kinetics of cardiac myosin interacting with regulated thin filaments

SRC Schulte, B Scott, SK Barrick, WT Stump… - Biophysical …, 2023 - cell.com
… a tightly regulated process wherein the heart generates force to … Flow cells were sequentially
loaded with 200 nM myosin (wait 1 … detected from 10 myosin molecules for the unregulated …

Single-molecule and biochemical characterization of the human myosin isoforms IIb, VI and IXa

M Kröss - 2022 - edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de
… resolve the nanometre displacements and piconewton forces … the neck region of the myosin
molecule. The regulatory light … For a single myosin, the step size does not correspond to the …

Acto-myosin cross-bridge stiffness depends on the nucleotide state of myosin II

T Wang, B Brenner, A Nayak, M Amrute-Nayak - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
… N = number of individual myosin molecules and n = number of … two steps in the bound events,
that is, δ1 = 4.37 ± 0.001 nm … -myosin lifetime of 0.046 s, the average stroke size of 4.04 nm

Millisecond conformational dynamics of skeletal myosin II power stroke studied by high-speed atomic force microscopy

OS Matusovsky, N Kodera, C MacEachen, T Ando… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… binding states during the force generating step must be … myosin motor domain of variable
lengths (∼8–12 nm long in … our understanding of force-generating step in myosin molecule. We …

Single-molecule imaging reveals the concerted release of myosin from regulated thin filaments

…, AV Inchingolo, MD Mihailescu, H Dai, NM Kad - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
myosin molecules. This qualitative assessment of the data prompted a more robust examination
to determine the process … here were obtained with 10 nM GFP- tagged myosin- S1 (S1- …