Photolysis of a photolabile precursor of ATP (caged ATP) induces microsecond ratational motions of myosin heads bound to actin.

Proposed Mechanism of Force Generation in Striated Muscle

1971 • 2,256 citations

An improved assay for nanomole amounts of inorganic phosphate

1979 • 2,157 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

Force measurements by micromanipulation of a single actin filament by glass needles

1988 • 672 citations

Myosin subfragment-1 is sufficient to move actin filaments in vitro

1987 • 484 citations

Inhibition of actomyosin ATPase activity by troponin-tropomyosin without blocking the binding of myosin to actin.

1982 • 349 citations

Evidence for cross-bridge attachment in relaxed muscle at low ionic strength.

1982 • 300 citations

X-ray evidence for radial cross-bridge movement and for the sliding filament model in actively contracting skeletal muscle

1973 • 293 citations

Energetics and mechanism of actomyosin adenosine triphosphatase

1976 • 287 citations

Crossbridge behaviour during muscle contraction

1985 • 249 citations

Orientation of spin labels attached to cross-bridges in contracting muscle fibres

1982 • 248 citations

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

1979 • 243 citations

A new approach to time-resolved studies of ATP-requiring biological systems; laser flash photolysis of caged ATP.

1980 • 225 citations

Rotational dynamics of spin-labeled F-actin in the sub-millisecond time range

1979 • 141 citations

Submillisecond rotational dynamics of spin-labeled myosin heads in myofibrils

1980 • 131 citations

Methodology for increased precision in saturation transfer electron paramagnetic resonance studies of rotational dynamics

1986 • 93 citations

Microsecond rotational motions of eosin-labeled myosin measured by time-resolved anisotropy of absorption and phosphorescence

1984 • 76 citations

Techniques for the Analysis of Membrane Proteins

1986 • 66 citations

Energetics of the actomyosin bond in the filament array of muscle fibers

1988 • 61 citations

Microsecond rotational motion of spin-labeled myosin heads during isometric muscle contraction. Saturation transfer electron paramagnetic resonance

1989 • 56 citations

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

1978 • 45 citations

ATP induces microsecond rotational motions of myosin heads crosslinked to actin

1986 • 42 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

Techniques for the Analysis of Membrane Proteins

1987 • 33 citations