Discussion on the state of water in the myofilament lattice and other biological systems, based on the fact that the usual concepts of colloid stability can not explain the stability of the myofilament lattice

Theory of the Stability of Lyophobic Colloids.

1947 • 7,494 citations

The London—van der Waals attraction between spherical particles

1937 • 3,683 citations

The hydrophobic interaction is long range, decaying exponentially with distance

1982 • 1,096 citations

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Transverse Relaxation Times of Water Protons in Skeletal Muscle

1974 • 472 citations

Evidence for the Existence of a Minimum of Two Phases of Ordered Water in Skeletal Muscle

1969 • 317 citations

STRUCTURE OF WATER NEAR SOLID INTERFACES

1969 • 308 citations

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Evidence using D2O for Structured Water in Muscle and Brain

1969 • 258 citations

Pulsed NMR studies of water in striated muscle

1972 • 244 citations

Adsorption and the wettability of solid surfaces

1937 • 209 citations

NMR Evidence for Complexing of Na+ in Muscle, Kidney, and Brain, and by Actomyosin. The Relation of Cellular Complexing of Na+ to Water Structure and to Transport Kinetics

1967 • 140 citations

Tension in Skinned Frog Muscle Fibers in Solutions of Varying Ionic Strength and Neutral Salt Composition

1973 • 111 citations

Force-balances and stability in hexagonally-packed polyelectrolyte systems

1968 • 101 citations

Effect of lyophile surfaces on the properties of boundary liquid films

1966 • 90 citations

Measurement of forces between colloidal particles

1970 • 74 citations

Pulsed NMR studies of water in striated muscle non-freezing factor of water II. Spin-lattice relaxation times and the dynamics of the non-freezing fraction of water

1973 • 73 citations

AQUEOUS INTERFACES—METHODS OF STUDY AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES. PART TWO

1965 • 71 citations

Electrostatic forces in muscle and cylindrical gel systems

1980 • 70 citations

Dielectric Constant of Water Films

1952 • 61 citations

Force Balances in Systems of Cylindrical Polyelectrolytes

1973 • 57 citations

THE MYOFILAMENT LATTICE: STUDIES ON ISOLATED FIBERS

1972 • 56 citations

The role of long range forces in ordered arrays of tobacco mosaic virus

1976 • 56 citations

X-ray diffraction evidence that actin is a 100 Å filament

1984 • 56 citations

Die Formelastizit�t der d�nnen Wasserschichten

1933 • 49 citations

Long Range Forces in Muscle

1971 • 43 citations

Lateral forces in the filament lattice of vertebrate striated muscle in the rigor state

1983 • 39 citations

Donnan potential measurements in extended hexagonal polyelectrolyte gels such as muscle

1982 • 38 citations

Measurement of viscosity of liquids in quartz capillaries

1970 • 37 citations

Frictional properties and molecular weight of native and synthetic myosin filaments from vertebrate skeletal muscle

1978 • 32 citations

Dimerization of the myosin heads in solution

1982 • 31 citations

Orientation of Water in Striated Frog Muscle

1975 • 30 citations

Boundary layers of pure liquids at the Graphon surface

1970 • 30 citations

Interrod forces in aqueous gels of tobacco mosaic virus

1984 • 29 citations

Reinvestigation of the shape and state of hydration of the skeletal myosin subfragment 1 monomer in solution

1983 • 28 citations

Interrelationships between water and cell metabolism in Artemia cysts X. Microwave dielectric studies

1982 • 28 citations

Potassium binding sites in muscle: Electron microscopic visualization of K, Rb, and Cs in freeze-dired preparations and autoradiography at liquid nitrogen temperature using86Rb and134Cs

1980 • 27 citations

Average electrostatic potential between the filaments in striated muscle and its relation to a simple Donnan potential

1982 • 25 citations

Potential and K+ activity in skinned muscle fibers. Evidence against a simple Donnan equilibrium

1984 • 20 citations

van der Waals Forces between Cylinders

1973 • 20 citations

Muscular contraction and cytoplasmic streaming: A new general hypothesis

1976 • 19 citations

The possible roles of the myosin heads

1982 • 18 citations

Boundary layers between silver iodide and aqueous solutions at low temperatures

1970 • 18 citations

Low-angle X-ray Diffraction from Concentrated Sols of F-Actin

1969 • 17 citations

Aqueous foam films stabilized by a non-ionic surface-active agent

1970 • 16 citations

Thermodynamic properties of thin films of some dipolar liquids adjacent to fused silica surfaces

1970 • 14 citations

Response of an equilibrium film to external disturbances

1970 • 6 citations

Dielectric Properties of Liquid Surface Zones, II. The Monohalogenobenzenes in Thin Layers Between Platinum‐Iridium Plates

1974 • 5 citations

General introduction

1970 • 3 citations