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Prof. A. V. Hill has challenged biochemists to find whether the heat of shortening of muscle has any equivalent in the chemistry of muscle. It is shown that the heat of shortening, which is reabsorbed as tension disappears, is not degraded free energy from the splitting of ATP. It must be reversibly transformed entropy from a repeated cyclic reaction such as coil-helix transitions in part of the myosin–actin cross bridges.
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01 November 1967
Professor R. E. Davies, of the University of Pennsylvania (School of Veterinary Medicine), has written to the Editor to complain that the words "Professor A. V. Hill's Further Challenge to Biochemists" were omitted from the title of his article, "ATP, Activation, and the Heat of Shortening of Muscle", published in Nature, 214, 148 (1967).
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DAVIES, R., KUSHMERICK, M. & LARSON, R. ATP, Activation, and the Heat of Shortening of Muscle. Nature 214, 148–151 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214148a0
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