Contractile proteins articles within Nature

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  01 November 2023 | Open Access

  Structure of the native myosin filament in the relaxed cardiac sarcomere

  A cryo-electron tomography study reports the structure of thick myosin filaments of mouse cardiac muscle in the relaxed state in situ and the MyBP-C links that connect them with the surrounding thin actin filaments.

  • Davide Tamborrini
  • , Zhexin Wang
  •  & Stefan Raunser

• Article | 02 December 2020

  Structure of the shutdown state of myosin-2

  The structure of myosin-2 in the shutdown state reveals how the shutdown state is stabilized and how phosphorylation of light chains allows myosin to be activated.

  • Charlotte A. Scarff
  • , Glenn Carrington
  •  & Michelle Peckham

• Letter | 07 August 2011

  Polar actomyosin contractility destabilizes the position of the cytokinetic furrow

  • Jakub Sedzinski
  • , Maté Biro
  •  & Ewa Paluch