Special Issue "Muscle Contraction Mechanism, Motor Proteins Function and Molecular Aspects of Water"
QuicklinksA special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2008)
Special Issue Editors
Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Mark L. Richter
Molecular Biosciences, Haworth Hall, Room 4031, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-7534, USA
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Interests: ATP hydrolysis-driven motor proteins; biochemical and biophysical approaches to examining mechanisms by which protein-protein interactions lead to large conformational changes resulting in translational or rotational motion; structure and function of the photosynthetic F1-ATPase motor protein
Editorial Advisor
Prof. Dr. Julian Borejdo
Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, University of North Texas, Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
Website: http://www.hsc.unt.edu/mbi/biography.cfm?id=167
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Interests: muscles; interactions between actin and myosin; biochemical approach to determine the proximity of actin to myosin; physico-chemical approach to measure the orientation of myosin in vivo; molecular biology approach (cloning mutants of myosin) to establish the role of various amino acid residues in muscle functions
Editorial Advisor
Dr. Walter Herzog
Human Performance Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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Interests: muscle contraction mechanisms; titin; myosin; actin; optical trapping; myofibrils; single fibres; isolated sarcomeres
Editorial Advisor
Prof. Dr. Reuven Tirosh *
The Biophysical Schottenstein Center, Physics Department, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
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* Prof. Tirosh served as Guest Editor up to July 2008
Published Papers
Special Issue Information
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the Instructions for Authors and submitted by e-mail to ijms@mdpi.org with the subject title of the message put as “Submission for IJMS Special Issue on Muscle Contraction”.
Leading Papers and Reviews:
- Geeves, M.A.; Holmes, K.C. The molecular mechanism of muscle contraction. Fibrous Proteins: Muscle and Molecular Motors. Advances in Protein Chemistry 2005, 71, 161.
- Smith, N.P.; Barclay, C.J.; Loiselle, D.S. The efficiency of muscle contraction. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 2005, 88, 1-58. (Download this paper)
- Widdas, W.F.; Baker, G.F. Biological energy sources: The surface energy and the physical chemistry of water. Examples from studies on muscle contraction. Cellular and Molecular Biology, 50, 591-608. Suppl. S 2004.
- Other useful references. ( E-Mail: holmes[a]mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de)
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Keywords
muscle contraction mechanism, models, motor proteins, cell motility, actin-myosin ATPase, physical chemistry of water, water solitons, hydraulic compression, ATP hydrolysis, cytoplasm steaming, bioenergetics, proton-motive-force, Brownian motor, actin motors, microtubule motors, plant specific motors, transport of proteins and vesicles, RNA polymerase, topoisomerases, Fokker-Planck equation, Monte Carlo method, molecular dynamics, brownian motor, FRET, electrophysiology, optical tweezers, magnetic tweezers, locomotion
Last update: 26 January 2009