Open AccessCold temperatures put a freeze on myosin activation
Author(s) -
Ben Short
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of general physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.064
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1540-7748
pISSN - 0022-1295
DOI - 10.1085/jgp.201912509
Subject(s) - myosin , actin , biophysics , skeletal muscle , chemistry , trapping , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , biology , anatomy , ecology
JGP study reveals that low temperatures reduce force production in mammalian skeletal muscle by trapping myosin motors in a refractory state unable to bind actin.
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