Rho-Kinase–Mediated Contraction of Isolated Stress Fibers

It is widely accepted that actin filaments and the conventional double-headed myosin interact to generate force for many types of nonmuscle cell motility, and that this interaction occurs when the myosin regulatory light chain (MLC) is phosphorylated by MLC kinase (MLCK) together with calmodulin and...

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Main Authors: Katoh, Kazuo, Kano, Yumiko, Amano, Mutsuki, Onishi, Hirofumi, Kaibuchi, Kozo, Fujiwara, Keigi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 2001
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190572/