Biological motors: energy storage in myosin molecules

Curr Biol. 1998 Jul 2;8(14):R485-8. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70313-6.

Abstract

A recent experiment of exceptional complexity has shown that a myosin may lose its ATP but store the energy from it and attach to actin and perform a working stroke several hundred milliseconds later.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Actins / chemistry
  • Actins / physiology
  • Adenosine Triphosphate / metabolism
  • Animals
  • Models, Molecular
  • Myosins / chemistry*
  • Myosins / metabolism*

Substances

  • Actins
  • Adenosine Triphosphate
  • Myosins