Communications Biology (Jan 2021)

Single molecule turnover of fluorescent ATP by myosin and actomyosin unveil elusive enzymatic mechanisms

  • Marko Ušaj,
  • Luisa Moretto,
  • Venukumar Vemula,
  • Aseem Salhotra,
  • Alf Månsson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01574-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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With fluorescence based-TIRF microspectroscopy, Ušaj et al. unveil mechanistic details about the ATP turnover rates by myosin and actomyosin with enzymatic reaction pathways that were not possible to obtain from ensemble studies. This study could be important to the field of molecular motors.