Effects of Ca2+ on the conformation and enzymatic activity of smooth muscle myosin.

Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4

1970 • 253,849 citations

Regulation and Kinetics of the Actin-Myosin-ATP Interaction

1980 • 1,077 citations

An electrophoretic study of the low-molecular-weight components of myosin

1970 • 706 citations

Myosin Phosphorylation and the Cross-Bridge Cycle in Arterial Smooth Muscle

1981 • 705 citations

Light-chain phosphorylation controls the conformation of vertebrate non-muscle and smooth muscle myosin molecules

1983 • 393 citations

Excitation‐Contraction Coupling in Smooth Muscle

1978 • 372 citations

Regulation of muscular contraction. Distribution of actin control and myosin control in the animal kingdom.

1975 • 355 citations

Regulation in molluscan muscles

1970 • 351 citations

Biochemistry of Smooth Muscle

1977 • 314 citations

Effect of phosphorylation of smooth muscle myosin on actin activation and Ca2+ regulation.

1977 • 302 citations

Vascular smooth muscle: The first recorded Ca2+ transients

1982 • 260 citations

Regulatory light chains in myosins

1976 • 249 citations

Roles of calcium and phosphorylation in the regulation of the activity of gizzard myosin

1978 • 244 citations

Inhibition of smooth muscle actin-activated myosin Mg2+-ATPase activity by caldesmon.

1984 • 243 citations

[30] Smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase

1983 • 229 citations

Myosin-linked calcium regulation in vertebrate smooth muscle

1976 • 169 citations

<b>CONTROL OF ACTIN-MYOSIN INTERACTION OF GIZZARD SMOOTH MUSCLE BY CALMODULIN- AND CALDESMONLINKED FLIP-FLOP </b><b>MECHANISM </b>

1982 • 162 citations

Proteolysis of smooth muscle myosin by Staphylococcus aureus protease: preparation of heavy meromyosin and subfragment 1 with intact 20,000-dalton light chains

1985 • 156 citations

Myosin filaments have non-phosphorylated light chains in relaxed smooth muscle

1981 • 155 citations

Calcium-Dependent Stress Maintenance Without Myosin Phosphorylation in Skinned Smooth Muscle

1983 • 145 citations

Calcium and Cell Function

1982 • 134 citations

Evidence for structural changes in vertebrate thick filaments induced by calcium

1974 • 129 citations

Basic biology of muscles: A comparative approach

1983 • 129 citations

Correlation of enzymatic properties and conformation of smooth muscle myosin

1983 • 124 citations

The contractile proteins of smooth muscle. Properties and components of a Ca2+-sensitive actomyosin from chicken gizzard

1975 • 122 citations

Calcium binding to rabbit skeletal myosin under physiological conditions

1975 • 100 citations

The calcium binding properties of phosphorylated and unphosphorylated cardiac and skeletal myosins.

1979 • 98 citations

Effects of phosphorylation, calcium ion, and tropomyosin on actin-activated adenosine 5'-triphosphatase activity of mammalian smooth muscle myosin

1981 • 93 citations

Phosphorylation-dependent activated tension in skinned gizzard muscle fibers in the absence of Ca2+.

1982 • 91 citations

Cooperativity in scallop myosin

1981 • 90 citations

Calcium-dependent resistance to stretch and stress relaxation in resting smooth muscles

1976 • 87 citations

Characterization of homologous divalent metal ion binding sites of vertebrate and molluscan myosins using electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy

1979 • 86 citations

Mechanical characteristics of chemically skinned guinea-pig taenia coli

1982 • 85 citations

Hybrid formation between scallop myofibrils and foreign regulatory light-chains

1980 • 85 citations

Ca2+ can affectV max without changes in myosin light chain phosphorylation in smooth muscle

1984 • 85 citations

Ordered phosphorylation of the two 20,000 molecular weight light chains of smooth muscle myosin

1983 • 81 citations

Regulation of actin-activated ATP hydrolysis by arterial myosin.

1982 • 81 citations

Bovine stomach myosin light chain kinase: purification, characterization, and comparison with the turkey gizzard enzyme

1982 • 73 citations

The dependence of unloaded shortening velocity on Ca++, calmodulin, and duration of contraction in "chemically skinned" smooth muscle.

1983 • 71 citations

Calcium Sensitivity of Contractile Proteins from Chicken Gizzard Muscle1

1978 • 67 citations

Conformation-dependent proteolysis of smooth-muscle myosin.

1984 • 64 citations

<b>CALCIUM REGULATORY MECHANISM IN VERTEBRATE SMOOTH </b><b>MUSCLE </b>

1980 • 63 citations

The binding of divalent cations to myosin

1975 • 62 citations

Effects of magnesium chloride on smooth muscle actomyosin adenosine 5'-triphosphatase activity, myosin conformation, and tension development in glycerinated smooth muscle fibers

1984 • 60 citations

Reversible loss of calcium control of tension in scallop striated muscle associated with the removal of regulatory light chains

1978 • 58 citations

Ca2+, myosin phosphorylation, and relaxation of arterial smooth muscle

1983 • 56 citations

Crossbridge Attachment, Resistance to Stretch, and Viscoelasticity in Resting Mammalian Smooth Muscle

1976 • 55 citations

Ca2+ Regulation in Vascular Smooth Muscle: II. Ca2+ Binding of Aorta Leiotonin1

1980 • 52 citations

Force-velocity relation in chemically skinned rat portal vein

1983 • 49 citations

Chicken Gizzard Heavy Meromyosin that Retains the Two Light-Chain Components, Including a Phosphorylatable One1

1979 • 48 citations

Calcium regulation of porcine aortic myosin.

1981 • 46 citations

Effect of phosphorylation on the actin-activated atpase activity of myosin

1981 • 42 citations

Evidence for two distinct affinities in the binding of divalent metal ions to myosin.

1979 • 41 citations

Phosphorylation of the calcium ion-regulated thin filaments from vascular smooth muscle A new regulatory mechanism?

1981 • 34 citations

Dependence on Ca2+ and tropomyosin of the actin-activated ATPase activity of phosphorylated gizzard myosin in the presence of low concentrations of Mg2+.

1983 • 33 citations

Relationship between actin-myosin interaction and myosin light chain phosphorylation in human placental smooth muscle

1979 • 30 citations

Correlation between the Papain Digestibility and the Conformation of 10S-Myosin from Chicken Gizzard12

1984 • 30 citations

Effects of Ca2+ and Mg2+ on the actin-activated ATP hydrolysis by phosphorylated heavy meromyosin from arterial smooth muscle.

1984 • 27 citations

The effects of calcium and magnesium ions on the adenosine triphosphatase and inosine triphosphatase activities of myosin A

1969 • 26 citations

Non-correlation of phosphorylation of the P-light chain and the actin activation of the ATPase of chicken gizzard myosin

1982 • 24 citations

The variable relation between myosin light‐chain phosphorylation and actin‐activated ATPase activity in chicken gizzard smooth muscle

1984 • 24 citations

Properties of the calcium-sensitive components of bovine arterial actomyosin

1977 • 22 citations

Binding of calcium and magnesium to myosin in skeletal muscle myofibrils

1982 • 20 citations

Phosphorylation and the Binding of Calcium and Magnesium to Skeletal Myosin

1980 • 15 citations

Phosphorylation of chicken gizzard myosin and the Ca²⁺‐sensitivity of the actin‐activated Mg²⁺‐ATPase

1983 • 14 citations

Properties of the non-specific calcium-binding sites of rabbit skeletal-muscle myosin

1980 • 12 citations

Ca2+-Induced Confonnational Changes of 20,000 Dalton Light Chain of Vertebrate Striated Muscle Myosins1

1983 • 11 citations

A Further Study on the Phosphorylation and Dephosphorylation of a Light-Chain Subunit of Chicken Gizzard Myosin

1979 • 11 citations

Influence of myosin heavy chains on the Ca2+-binding properties of light chain, LC2

1981 • 8 citations

Interaction of cardiac myosin and its light chains with calcium ions and regulation of binding by phosphorylation

1982 • 5 citations