Motor proteins: myosin mechanosensors.
Mechanosensation is emerging as a general principle of myosin motors. As demonstrated in a recent study, the single-headed myosin I molecule is an exquisite mechanosensor, able to sense strain over a very small force range.
Kee
Yee-Seir
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Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
Robinson
Douglas N
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