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IT has been shown, that the superprecipitation of ‘natural actomyosin’ is subtly controlled, by a minute amount of calcium, ions1–3; the superprecipitation is promoted or depressed by the increase or the decrease of calcium ions in the reaction medium respectively. This unique action of calcium ions not only affords the basis for the relaxing mechanism of chelating agents2 as well as physiological relaxing factor3, but also appears to be closely associated with the link between excitation and contraction4.
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EBASHI, S. Third Component Participating in the Super precipitation of ‘Natural Actomyosin’. Nature 200, 1010 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/2001010a0
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