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Evidence that unphosphorylated smooth muscle myosin supports smooth muscle contraction
1Istituto di Chimica Biologica, Università di Ferrara, Italy.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|August 15, 1991
Abstract:
Unphosphorylated smooth muscle myosin filaments do not disassemble in MgATP, provided that the solution is supplemented either by 25% serum albumin or by 6% polyethylene glycol 6000. These filaments are able to support actomyosin retraction but their ATPase activity is not activated by tropomyosin-decorated F-actin.