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Cooperation within Actin Filament in Vertebrate Skeletal Muscle

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When actin molecules form “rigor complexes” with nucleotide-free myosin, tropomn binds calcium with greater affinity and in a cooperative response the remaining actin molecules not cornplexed with myosin are “turned on” even though calcium is absent.

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  1. ROBERT D. BREMEL

    Present address: Anatomy Department, Duke Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

  2. ANNEMARIE WEBER: Biochemistry Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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BREMEL, R., WEBER, A. Cooperation within Actin Filament in Vertebrate Skeletal Muscle. Nature New Biology 238, 97–101 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio238097a0

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