アクトミオシン系のエネルギー変換機構

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The motile proteins of actin and myosin construct a biological machine in which chemical energy is very efficiently converted to mechanical energy, as seen typically in muscle contraction. As a result, a major goal of biophysicists has been to describe the mechanism of this energy transduction process in molecular terms, as first outlined by A.F. Huxley. Recent developments of methods to observe individual molecular motions by video-fluorescence microscopy and in vitro movement assays have accelerated progress in this field. Combining these techniques, we have studied on the elementary process of the actomyosin energy transduction.
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