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Larissa Tskhovrebova1, Ahmed Houmeida, John Trinick.
Abstract
Recent progress in understanding the role of titin/connectin in muscle elasticity has been heavily based on results from single molecule mechanical experiments. The shape of force-extension curves from such data is similar to curves from muscle fibres and it has been tempting to assume that muscle elasticity can be extrapolated directly from the single molecule data. In this paper we discuss some of the factors that act on titin in the sarcomere that are likely to preclude such a direct extrapolation.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16465473 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-005-9034-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Muscle Res Cell Motil ISSN: 0142-4319 Impact factor: 2.698