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Evidence for a Complex between Myosin and ADP in Relaxed Muscle Fibres

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TAYLOR and his co-workers have shown that myosin, when mixed with its substrate ATP, rapidly forms a stoichiometric complex in which the terminal phosphate bond of the ATP is already broken1; this complex is relatively stable and lasts for nearly all of the time between successive ATP hydrolyses2. The aim of the present work was to find out whether such a complex is formed in relaxed muscle.

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MARSTON, S., TREGEAR, R. Evidence for a Complex between Myosin and ADP in Relaxed Muscle Fibres. Nature New Biology 235, 23–24 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio235023a0

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