Including Thermal Fluctuations in Actomyosin Stable States Increases the Predicted Force per Motor and Macroscopic Efficiency in Muscle Modelling.

Muscle contractions are generated by cyclical interactions of myosin heads with actin filaments to form the actomyosin complex. To simulate actomyosin complex stable states, mathematical models usually define an energy landscape with a corresponding number of wells. The jumps between these wells are...

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Main Authors: Lorenzo Marcucci, Takumi Washio, Toshio Yanagida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-09-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5023195?pdf=render