Articles tagged "filament"

The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Our muscle at near-atomic resolution – Cryo-EM structure of the F-actin-tropomyosin complex.
Julian von der Ecken (1), Mirco Müller (2), William Lehman (3), Dietmar J. Manstein (2), Pawel A. Penczek (4), Stefan Raunser (1)
1. Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Allemagne 2. Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Allemagne 3. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Etats-Unis 4. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Houston Medical School, Houston, Etats-Unis
Muscular movement plays an essential role not only in our lives but also describes a fundamental mechanism of force production. Filamentous actin (F-actin) is the major…