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Troponin-tropomyosin-regulated myofibrils show a significant increase in ATPase activity and contract in the absence of calcium when the ATP concentration falls significantly below the saturation level. By contrast, the ATPase of the myosin-regulated myofibrils of scallop striated muscle was not activated in the absence of calcium when the ATP concentration was lowered to 10 mm. Nevertheless, a very small fraction of crossbridges were active at 10 mm ATP resulting in very slow myofibrillar shortening. In contrast to the behaviour of rabbit contractile proteins there was no correlation between myofibrillar shortening and ATP induced turbidity changes of actomyosin taken from scallop.
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Knox, M.K., Szent-Györgyi, A.G., Trueblood, C.E. et al. The effect of low ATP concentrations on relaxation in the myosin regulated myofibrils from scallop. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 7, 110–114 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01753411
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