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Figure 1: Right, five molecules in an actin helix. Left, the myosin cross bridge in the open and closed conformation.
Figure 2: Right, five molecules of the actin helix. Left, smooth muscle myosin truncated at residue 819 carrying the essential light chain and with ADP.AlF4 or ADP.BeF3 bound in the active site1.

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Holmes, K. A powerful stroke. Nat Struct Mol Biol 5, 940–942 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/2914

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