Toward a theory of muscle contraction

Muscle Structure and Theories of Contraction

1957 • 3,392 citations

The variation in isometric tension with sarcomere length in vertebrate muscle fibres

1966 • 3,052 citations

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

1954 • 1,532 citations

Electron microscope studies on the structure of natural and synthetic protein filaments from striated muscle

1963 • 1,452 citations

THE DOUBLE ARRAY OF FILAMENTS IN CROSS-STRIATED MUSCLE

1957 • 627 citations

Adenylyl imidiodiphosphate, an adenosine triphosphate analog containing a P-N-P linkage

1971 • 516 citations

Myosine and Adenosinetriphosphatase

1939 • 350 citations

Physical Chemistry of Cells and Tissues

1946 • 348 citations

A Molecular Theory of Muscle Contraction : Calcium-Dependent Contractions with Hydrogen Bond Formation Plus ATP-Dependent Extensions of Part of the Myosin-Actin Cross-Bridges

1963 • 260 citations

Ultrastructure of insect flight muscle

1968 • 233 citations

X-ray diffraction evidence for α-helical coiled-coils in native muscle

1963 • 200 citations

The Effect of Structure-disrupting Ions on the Activity of Myosin and Other Enzymes

1966 • 165 citations

Chemical machines, Maxwell's demon and living organisms

1971 • 160 citations

Substructure of the myosin molecule as visualized by electron microscopy.

1967 • 142 citations

A Mechanochemical Mechanism for Muscle Contraction

1971 • 125 citations

THE HYDROLYSIS OF PURINE AND PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATES BY MYOSIN

1956 • 99 citations

Effect of nucleotides and pyrophosphate on spin labels bound to S1 thiol groups of myosin

1970 • 92 citations

Myosin-product complex and its effect on the steady-state rate of nucleoside triphosphate hydrolysis

1970 • 90 citations

Equilibrium binding of adenosine diphosphate to myosin

1969 • 84 citations

The conformation of myosin during the steady state of ATP hydrolysis: Studies with myosin spin labeled at the S1 thiol groups

1971 • 77 citations

The enzymatic interaction between myosin and nucleotides

1955 • 73 citations

Polarization of tryptophan fluorescence in muscle

1969 • 60 citations

Number and location of adenosine triphosphatase sites of myosin

1970 • 52 citations

Studies of myosin conformation by fluorescent techniques

1969 • 51 citations

Experiments on the Modification of Myosin Nucleosidetriphosphatase^*

1964 • 45 citations

Independent and cooperative reactions of myosin heads with f-actin in the presence of adenosine triphosphate

1971 • 41 citations

Conformation of myosin Effects of substrate and modifiers

1969 • 41 citations

Conformational change accompanying modification of myosin ATPase

1966 • 39 citations

Synthesis of 6-mercapto-9-β-d-ribofuranosyl-purine 5′-triphosphate, a sulfhydryl analog of ATP

1970 • 32 citations

Trans-amination of l- and d-Amino Acids in Normal Muscle and in Malignant Tumours

1939 • 32 citations

Mechanisms of Muscle Contraction

1959 • 29 citations

Spectral shift in heavy-meromyosin induced by substrate

1966 • 28 citations

Relation between adenosinetriphosphate activity and sarcomere length in stretched glycerol-extracted frog skeletal muscle.

1965 • 25 citations

Stretch induced formation of ATP-32P in glycerinated fibres of insect flight muscle

1971 • 24 citations

Activation of H-meromyosin ATPase by polymers of actin and carboxymethylated actin

1969 • 23 citations

Myosin modification as studied by spin labeling

1969 • 20 citations

EPR spectral observations on the binding of ATP and F-actin to spin-labeled myosin

1971 • 20 citations

A Dynamic Study of F-Actin-Heavy Meromyosin Solutions by Quasi-Elastic Light Scattering

1970 • 19 citations

Effect of Ultrasonics on the Adenosine Triphosphatase Activity and Actin-binding Ability of L-Myosin and Heavy Meromyosin

1963 • 19 citations

Spin-label studies of glycerinated muscle fibers

1969 • 17 citations

Studies on myosin catalysis and modification

1970 • 11 citations

Physical Chemistry of Cells and Tissues

1946 • 2 citations