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LITTLE is known about the behaviour of myosin in monomolecular layers. Communications previously published on this subject1,2 appeared at an early stage of the study of myosin, that is, before Szent-Györgyi and his school3 had shown that myosin consists of at least two different proteins, actin and myosin proper. In connexion with work in this laboratory4 on the interaction between high-energy phosphate compounds and the different components of myosin, the investigations have been extended to monolayers of these proteins.
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MUNCH-PETERSEN, A. Effect of Adenosine Triphosphate on Monolayers of Myosin. Nature 162, 537 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162537a0
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