The molecular mechanism of muscle contraction is one of the most important unresolved
problems in biology and biophysics. Notwithstanding the great advances of recent years, it is …

The X-ray diffraction pattern recorded during contraction shows that the force generation of a
muscle proceeds upon interaction of the actin and myosin heads in the incommensurate …

The purpose of the studies reviewed here has been to help to elucidate the molecular
mechanisms involved in muscular contraction. The structural basis of the contractile …

Interest in the molecular mechanism of muscle contraction led to the search for an intense
source of X-rays of 1–2 Å wavelength so as to be able to examine the rich X-ray diffraction …

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 3188-3213, January 1, 2009] 3188 Insight into the actin-myosin
motor from x-ray diffraction on musc Page 1 [Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 3188-3213, January 1 …

The molecular mechanism of muscle contraction was investigated in intact muscle fibres by
X-ray diffraction. Changes in the intensities of the axial X-ray reflections produced by …

A direct modeling approach was used to quantitatively interpret the two-dimensional x-ray
diffraction patterns obtained from contracting mammalian skeletal muscle. The dependence …

Low-angle X-ray diffraction diagrams have been recorded from frog sartorius muscles with a
time resolution of a few milliseconds, using synchrotron radiation. The layer-line reflections …

This report provides a preliminary sketch of the results obtained in a two-dimensional time
resolved X-ray diffraction study of “live” frog sartorius muscles undergoing isometric tetani …

An intact living muscle has such a regular structure that it diffracts light or X-rays, thereby
providing patterns that contain uniquely valuable information. Interpretation of these patterns …