Striated muscle contraction requires intricate interactions of microstructures. The classic textbook assumption that myosin filaments are compressed at the meshed Z-disc during striated muscle fibre ...
Two ground-breaking papers, published back-to-back in Nature 54 years ago, independently showed that muscle shortens as a result of the sliding between the thick and thin filaments of the fibres ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Although it is generally believed that phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain of myosin is required before smooth muscle can develop ...