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Contractile Mechanisms in Muscle

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Editors:
  1. Gerald H. Pollack

    1. University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA

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  2. Haruo Sugi

    1. Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 37)

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Table of contents (88 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Structural Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Structure of the Myofilaments

      1. Introduction
        • Rhea J. C. Levine
        Pages 3-4
      2. Symmetry and Self-Assembly in Vertebrate A-Filaments
        • Arthur J. Rowe, Maria C. Maw
        Pages 5-20
      3. Image Analysis of the Complex of Actin-Tropomyosin and Myosin Subfragment 1
        • Takeyuki Wakabayashi, Chikashi Toyoshima, Eisaku Katayama
        Pages 21-28
      4. A-Band Mass Exceeds Mass of Its Filament Components by 30–45%
        • M. K. Reedy, C. Lucaveche
        Pages 29-45
      5. Myofilament Diameters: An Ultrastructural Re-Evaluation
        • Thomas F. Robinson, Leona Cohen-Gould
        Pages 47-61

    3. Do Thick Filaments Shorten?

      1. Introduction
        • Gerald H. Pollack, Haruo Sugi
        Pages 65-66
      2. Limulus Striated Muscle Provides an Unusual Model for Muscle Contraction
        • M. M. Dewey, P. Brink, D. E. Colflesh, B. Gaylinn, S.-F. Fan, F. Anapol
        Pages 67-87
      3. Dynamic Laser Light Scattering of Papain-Treated Thick Filaments from Limulus Striated Muscle in Suspension
        • S-F. Fan, M. M. Dewey, D. Colflesh, P. Brink, B. Chu
        Pages 89-92
      4. Structure of <i>Limulus</i> and Other Invertebrate Thick Filaments
        • Rhea J. C. Levine, Robert W. Kensler, Mary Reedy, Waltraud Hoffman, Sandra Davidheiser, Robert E. Davies
        Pages 93-106
      5. Cinematographic Studies on the A-Band Length Changes During Ca-Activated Contraction in Horseshoe Crab Muscle Myofibrils
        • Haruo Sugi, Setsuko Gomi
        Pages 107-118
      6. Contraction Bands: Differences between Physiologically vs. Maximally Activated Single Heart Muscle Cells
        • John W. Krueger, Barry London
        Pages 119-134
      7. Structural Studies of Glycerinated Skeletal Muscle. I. A-Band Length and Cross-Bridge Period in ATP-Contracted Fibers
        • Paul Dreizen, Lawrence Herman, Jacob E. Berger
        Pages 135-155

    4. X-ray Diffraction Approaches to Structural Dynamics

      1. Introduction
        • Gerald H. Pollack, Haruo Sugi
        Pages 159-160
      2. Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction Studies of Cross-Bridge Movement and Their Interpretation
        • H. E. Huxley
        Pages 161-175
      3. On the Possibility of Interaction between Neighbouring Crossbridges
        • R. T. Tregear, M. L. Clarke
        Pages 177-184
      4. Cross-Bridge States in Invertebrate Muscles
        • John S. Wray
        Pages 185-192
      5. Factors Affecting the Equatorial X-ray Diffraction Pattern from Contracting Frog Skeletal Muscle
        • H. Tanaka, H. Sugi, H. Hashizume
        Pages 193-202
      6. Effect of Stretch on the Equatorial X-ray Diffraction Pattern from Frog Skeletal Muscle in Rigor
        • H. Tanaka, H. Sugi, H. Hashizume
        Pages 203-205
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Prior to the emergence of the sliding filament model, contraction theories had been in abundance. In the absence of the kinds of structural and biochemical information available today, it has been a simple matter to speculate about the possible ways in which tension generation and shortening might occur. The advent of the sliding filament model had an immediate impact on these theories; within several years they fell by the wayside, and attention was redirected towards mechanisms by which the filaments might be driven to slide by one another. In terms of identifying the driving mechanism, the pivotal observa­ tion was the electron micrographic indentification of cross-bridges extending from the thick filaments. It was quite naturally assumed that such bridges, which had the ability to split ATP, were the molecular motors, i.e., that they were the sites of mechanochemical transduction. Out of this presumption grew the cross-bridge model. in which filament sliding is presumed to be driven by the cyclic interaction of cross-bridges with complementary actin sites located along the thin filaments.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA

    Gerald H. Pollack

  • Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Haruo Sugi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contractile Mechanisms in Muscle

  • Editors: Gerald H. Pollack, Haruo Sugi

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4703-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-4705-7Published: 12 July 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-4703-3Published: 13 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 921

  • Topics: Anatomy

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