The Mechanism of Muscle Contraction
- 1 September 1974
- journal article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 71 (9) , 3343-3344
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.71.9.3343
Abstract
Muscular contraction is essentially the shortening of the S(2) subunits of heavy meromyosin, integrated to macroscopic motion by the thick and thin filaments.Keywords
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