Actomyosin ATPase and Muscle Contraction

Muscle Structure and Theories of Contraction

1957 • 3,392 citations

Proposed Mechanism of Force Generation in Striated Muscle

1971 • 2,256 citations

The Mechanism of Muscular Contraction

1969 • 1,928 citations

Changes in the Cross-Striations of Muscle during Contraction and Stretch and their Structural Interpretation

1954 • 1,655 citations

Structural Changes in Muscle During Contraction: Interference Microscopy of Living Muscle Fibres

1954 • 1,532 citations

Mechanism of adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis by actomyosin

1971 • 1,289 citations

The statistical nature of the acetylcholine potential and its molecular components

1972 • 960 citations

Rapid photolytic release of adenosine 5'-triphosphate from a protected analog: utilization by the sodium:potassium pump of human red blood cell ghosts

1978 • 743 citations

Energy Interconversion by the Ca2+-Dependent ATPase of the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

1979 • 718 citations

THE CHEMISTRY OF MUSCULAR CONTRACTION

1922 • 666 citations

Theoretical formalism for the sliding filament model of contraction of striated muscle Part I

1974 • 410 citations

Mechanism of Actomyosin Atpase and the Problem of Muscle Contractio

1979 • 407 citations

The characterization of myosin–product complexes and of product-release steps during the magnesium ion-dependent adenosine triphosphatase reaction

1974 • 364 citations

Calcium Transport in Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

1975 • 328 citations

A cross-bridge model of muscle contraction

1979 • 317 citations

Energetics and mechanism of actomyosin adenosine triphosphatase

1976 • 287 citations

Kinetic Analysis of ATPase Mechanisms

1976 • 285 citations

The effect of calcium on the force‐velocity relation of briefly glycerinated frog muscle fibres

1971 • 258 citations

Comparison of the myosin and actomyosin ATPase mechanisms of the four types of vertebrate muscles

1980 • 250 citations

The reversibility of adenosine triphosphate cleavage by myosin

1973 • 249 citations

Mechanism of the actomyosin adenosine triphosphatase. Evidence that adenosine 5'-triphosphate hydrolysis can occur without dissociation of the actomyosin complex

1979 • 243 citations

Phosphorylation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane by orthophosphate. Inhibition by calcium ions

1973 • 243 citations

Transient state phosphate production in the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates by myosin

1970 • 241 citations

Segmental flexibility of the S-1 moiety of myosin

1973 • 233 citations

Chemistry of Muscular Contraction

1950 • 216 citations

Isotopic ( ¹⁸ O) shift in ³¹ P nuclear magnetic resonance applied to a study of enzyme-catalyzed phosphate—phosphate exchange and phosphate (oxygen)—water exchange reactions

1978 • 211 citations

Myosin Adenosine Triphosphatase

1974 • 211 citations

Occurrence and Characteristics of a Rapid Exchange of Phosphate Oxygens Catalyzed by Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Vesicles

1973 • 206 citations

The chemical energetics of muscle contraction. II. The chemistry, efficiency and power of maximally working sartorius muscles

1969 • 190 citations

Exchange between inorganic phosphate and adenosine 5'-triphosphate in the medium by actomyosin subfragment 1

1980 • 177 citations

A stereochemical method for detection of ATP terminal phosphate transfer in enzymatic reactions. Glutamine synthetase.

1976 • 172 citations

Contraction of glycerinated muscle fibers as a function of the ATP concentration

1979 • 172 citations

Adenosinetriphosphatase activity of acto-heavy meromyosin. Kinetic analysis of actin activation

1968 • 162 citations

The use of synchrotron radiation in time-resolved X-ray diffraction studies of myosin layer-line reflections during muscle contraction

1980 • 157 citations

Formation of adenosine triphosphate from Pi and adenosine diphosphate by purified Ca-2+-adenosine triphosphatase.

1975 • 150 citations

Recent Advances in Physiology.

1929 • 148 citations

Muscle Filament Structure and Muscle Contraction

1975 • 124 citations

The effect of the performance of work on total energy output and metabolism during muscular contraction

1974 • 121 citations

Motility in Cell Function.

1980 • 120 citations

Subunit interaction during catalysis. Alternating site cooperativity of mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase.

1979 • 120 citations

The magnesium-ion-dependent adenosine triphosphatase of bovine cardiac Myosin and its subfragment-1

1976 • 119 citations

Kinetics of Muscular Contraction : the Approach to the Steady State

1960 • 106 citations

Recent Advances in Physiology.

1950 • 101 citations

Dissociation constant of the actin-heavy meromyosin subfragment-1 complex

1975 • 99 citations

Interaction of Actomyosin with Adenosine Triphosphate at Low Ionic Strength

1962 • 91 citations

Fluctuations in polarized fluorescence: evidence that muscle cross bridges rotate repetitively during contraction.

1979 • 91 citations

Actin Activation of Heavy Meromyosin Adenosine Triphosphatase

1970 • 86 citations

Reciprocal reactivities of specific thiols when actin binds to myosin.

1976 • 82 citations

Oxygen exchange in the gamma-phosphoryl group of protein-bound ATP during Mg2+-dependent adenosine triphosphatase activity of myosin.

1975 • 79 citations

Evidence for a Complex between Myosin and ADP in Relaxed Muscle Fibres

1972 • 77 citations

The Binding Constant of ATP to Myosin S1 Fragment

1977 • 76 citations

Synthesis of ATP from ADP and Inorganic Phosphate at the Myosin‐Subfragment 1 Active Site

1974 • 74 citations

The reversal of the myosin and actomyosin ATPase reactions and the free energy of ATP binding to myosin

1974 • 69 citations

The scope of moderate pressure changes for kinetic and equilibrium studies of biochemical systems

1976 • 69 citations

Large-scale rotational motions of proteins detected by electron paramagnetic resonance and fluorescence

1978 • 69 citations

Muscle Crossbridges: Absence of Direct Effect of Calcium on Movement Away from the Thick Filaments

1976 • 68 citations

Reaction mechanism of the magnesium ion-dependent adenosine triphosphatase of frog muscle myosin and subfragment 1

1978 • 64 citations

Pre-steady-state kinetic evidence for a cyclic interaction of myosin subfragment one with actin during the hydrolysis of adenosine 5'-triphosphate

1976 • 61 citations

The equivalence of phosphate oxygens for exchange and the hydrolysis characteristics revealed by the distribution of [18O]Pi species formed by myosin and actomyosin ATPase.

1980 • 61 citations

Subfragment 1 of myosin: adenosinetriphosphatase activation by actin

1968 • 59 citations

A fluorimetric method for continuously assaying ATPase: Application to small specimens of glycerol-extracted muscle fibers

1979 • 59 citations

Subunit interaction during catalysis: alternating site cooperativity in photophosphorylation shown by substrate modulation of [18O]ATP species formation.

1979 • 58 citations

Actin mediated release of ATP from a myosin ATP complex

1978 • 57 citations

Individual States in the Cycle of Muscle Contraction

1972 • 57 citations

Evaluation of the partitioning of bound inorganic phosphate during medium and intermediate phosphate in equilibrium water oxygen exchange reactions of yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase.

1978 • 54 citations

Ca2+ dependence of tension and ADP production in segments of chemically skinned muscle fibers

1976 • 54 citations

Intermediate states of actomyosin adenosine triphosphatase

1976 • 52 citations

Characterization of phosphate oxygen exchange reactions catalyzed by myosin through measurement of the distribution of 18-O-labeled species

1978 • 50 citations

Kinetics of oxygen-18 exchange between inorganic phosphate and water catalyzed by myosin subfragment 1, using the 18O shift in 31P NMR.

1978 • 46 citations

Formation of a ternary complex: Actin, 5′-adenylyl imidodiphosphate, and the subfragments of myosin

1978 • 45 citations

Kinetics and regulation of the myofibrillar adenosine triphosphatase

1978 • 41 citations

Transient‐phase of ATP hydrolysis by myosin sub‐fragment‐1 isoenzymes

1977 • 38 citations

Effect of actin concentration on the intermediate oxygen exchange of myosin; relation to the refractory state and the mechanism of exchange

1978 • 37 citations

Mechanism of oxygen exchange in actin-activated hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate by myosin subfragment 1

1977 • 37 citations

Kinetic studies of 18O exchange of inorganic phosphate using mass spectral measurements on the tris-(trimethylsilyl) derivative

1977 • 36 citations

Interaction of spin-labeled and N-(iodoacetylaminoethyl)-5-naphthylamine-1-sulfonic acid SH₁-blocked heavy meromyosin and myosin with actin and adenosine triphosphate

1978 • 35 citations

Fluctuations in tension during contraction of single muscle fibers

1977 • 35 citations

Structure and Function of the Two Heads of the Myosin Molecule1

1977 • 31 citations

The Rate of Release of ATP from Its Complex with Myosin

1978 • 28 citations

Definitions of free energy levels in biochemical reactions

1976 • 27 citations

Detection of slow rotational motions of proteins by steady-state phosphorescence anisotropy

1976 • 26 citations

Investigation of the temperature dependence of the cross bridge parameters for attachment, force generation and detachment as deduced from mechano-chemical studies in glycerinated single fibres from the dorsal longitudinal muscle of Lethocerus maximus

1979 • 25 citations

Pseudorotation mechanism of ATP hydrolysis in muscle contraction

1974 • 24 citations

Der austausch und die abspaltung des γ-phosphates des adenosin-triphosphates durch sarkosomen und kleine grana des kaninchen-muskels

1962 • 22 citations

Actin activation of the myosin ATPase: A kinetic analysis

1974 • 20 citations

Polarization of tryptophan fluorescence measurements in muscle

1980 • 19 citations

Is the chemomechanical energy transformation reversible?

1976 • 14 citations

Steady-state studies of the actin-activated adenosine triphosphatase activity of myosin

1976 • 12 citations

Induction of contractile activity by rigor complexes in myofibrils

1977 • 4 citations