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The myosin filament
Author(s) -
Ashton Francis T.,
Pepe Frank A.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1981.tb01283.x
Subject(s) - myosin , protein filament , confusion , myosin head , biophysics , optics , materials science , anatomy , biology , physics , myosin light chain kinase , composite material , psychology , psychoanalysis
SUMMARY Different multistage fixation procedures patterned after the procedure described by Reedy (1976) have been evaluated with regard to preservation of subfllament structural organization along the length of the vertebrate skeletal myosin filament. The criteria used for evaluation of structural preservation include (a) the precision of subfllament organization as reflected by the quality of the optical diffraction patterns obtained from images of transverse sections of the myosin filament and (b) the clarity with which structural differences in serial transverse sections along the myosin filament could be defined.