The bacterial cell division protein FtsZ is a homolog of tubulin, but it has not been determined
whether FtsZ polymers are structurally related to the microtubule lattice. In the present study…

Unconventional myosin V (myoV) is an actin-based molecular motor that has a key function
in organelle and mRNA transport, as well as in membrane trafficking 1 . MyoV was the first …

We have applied correspondence analysis to electron micrographs of 2-D rafts of F-actin
cross-linked with α-actinin on a lipid monolayer to investigate α-actinin:F-actin binding and …

We describe a cryo–electron microscopy three-dimensional image reconstruction of relaxed
myosin II–containing thick filaments from the flight muscle of the giant water bug Lethocerus …

Cryoelectron microscopy was used to obtain a 3-D image at 2.0 nm resolution of 2-D arrays
of smooth muscle α-actinin. The reconstruction reveals a well-resolved long central domain …

The atomic structure of the complete myosin tail within thick filaments isolated from Lethocerus
indicus flight muscle is described and compared to crystal structures of recombinant, …

The three-dimensional structure of α-actinin from rabbit skeletal muscle was determined by
cryoelectron microscopy in combination with homology modeling of the separate domain …

Striated muscle thick filaments are composed of myosin II and several non-myosin proteins.
Myosin II’s long α-helical coiled-coil tail forms the dense protein backbone of filaments, …

We have used a positively charged lipid monolayer to form two-dimensional bundles of F-actin
cross-linked by α-actinin to investigate the relative orientation of the actin filaments within …

A method is described for forming two-dimensional (2-D) paracrystalline complexes of F-actin
and bundling/gelation proteins on positively charged lipid monolayers. These arrays …