The force exerted by a muscle cross-bridge depends directly on the strength of the actomyosin bond.

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Published in Biophys J on October 01, 2004

Authors

Christina Karatzaferi1, Marc K Chinn, Roger Cooke

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California 94193-2240, USA.

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