Biochemical Basis for Contraction of Vascular Smooth Muscle

Molecular control mechanisms in muscle contraction.

1973 • 565 citations

Modulator protein as a component of the myosin light chain kinase from chicken gizzard

1978 • 488 citations

Phosphorylation of smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase by the catalytic subunit of adenosine 3‘: 5‘-monophosphate-dependent protein kinase.

1978 • 386 citations

Human platelet myosin light chain kinase requires the calcium-binding protein calmodulin for activity.

1979 • 381 citations

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

1975 • 355 citations

Biochemistry of Smooth Muscle

1977 • 314 citations

Structure and Function of Chicken Gizzard Myosin1

1978 • 265 citations

Regulatory light chains in myosins

1976 • 249 citations

Myosin light-chain phosphatase

1976 • 246 citations

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

1978 • 244 citations

Chemical and immunochemical characteristics of tropomyosins from striated and smooth muscle

1974 • 217 citations

The contractile apparatus of vascular smooth muscle: Intermediate high voltage stereo electron microscopy

1975 • 198 citations

Purification and properties of myosin light-chain kinase from fast skeletal muscle

1977 • 195 citations

Composition of the myosin light chain kinase from chicken gizzard

1977 • 192 citations

Irreversible thiophosphorylation and activation of tension in functionally skinned rabbit ileum strips by [35S]ATP gamma S.

1979 • 181 citations

Myosin linked calcium regulation in vertebrate smooth muscle

1974 • 116 citations

Phosphorylation of the 20,000-dalton light chain of myosin of intact arterial smooth muscle in rest and in contraction.

1979 • 100 citations

Differences in cellular contractile protein contents among porcine smooth muscles: evidence for variation in the contractile system.

1978 • 80 citations

Involvement of an Acidic Protein in Regulation of Smooth Muscle Contraction by the Tropomyosin-Leiotonin System1

1978 • 76 citations

Purification of Modulator-Deficient Myosin Light-Chain Kinase by Modulator Protein-Sepharose Affinity Chromatography1

1978 • 70 citations

Calcium-activated tension: the role of myosin light chain phosphorylation.

1980 • 68 citations

Cyclic 3′,5′-nucleotides: Mechanisms of action

1978 • 62 citations

Does Phosphoryiation of Myosin Light Chain Have Direct Relation to Regulation in Smooth Muscle?1

1977 • 56 citations

Filament Organization and Contractile Function in Vertebrate Smooth Muscle

1979 • 52 citations

‘Freezing’ of the Calcium-Regulated Structures of Gizzard Thin Filaments by Glutaraldehyde<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1"><sup>1</sup></xref>

1979 • 12 citations