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New X-ray data suggest how myosin rods, themselves α-helical coiled coils, form the thick filament backbone of crustacean muscles by additional supercoiling. Natural transformations of this structure may describe the myosin backbone in many other animals also.
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Wray, J. Structure of the backbone in myosin filaments of muscle. Nature 277, 37–40 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/277037a0
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