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The Self-Assembly of Nonsarcomeric Myosins

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Myosin filaments generate tension between arrays of parallel actin filaments. This happens most obviously in muscles, but is required in the cell cycle of every eukaryotic cell at least once, at cytokinesis. Myosin filaments from striated muscle cells contain extra proteins and appear uniquely stable. Those from all other eukaryotic cells, including those of smooth muscle, are thought to assemble ad hoc from a pool of free molecules [Yumura and Fukui, 1985]. Cells appear to regulate this assembly by converting free molecules into and out of an assembly-blocked storage conformation.

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  1. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, UK

    R. A. Cross

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  1. Maurice E. Müller-Institut, Biozentrum der Universität Basel, Klingelbergstraße 70, CH-4056, Basel, Germany

    Ueli Aebi

  2. Abteilung für Biophysikalische Chemie, Biozentrum der Universität Basel, Klingelbergstraße 70, CH-4056, Basel, Germany

    Jürgen Engel

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Cross, R.A. (1989). The Self-Assembly of Nonsarcomeric Myosins. In: Aebi, U., Engel, J. (eds) Cytoskeletal and Extracellular Proteins. Springer Series in Biophysics, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73925-5_30

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