Editor's Summary
25 August 2005
What makes myosin tick
New cryo-electron microscopy images show myosin filaments in unprecedented detail, revealing how myosin molecules are organized at the atomic level and how contraction is switched on and off.
Letter: Atomic model of a myosin filament in the relaxed state
John L. Woodhead, Fa-Qing Zhao, Roger Craig, Edward H. Egelman, Lorenzo Alamo and Raúl Padrón
doi:10.1038/nature03920
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