Sanford I. Bernstein

The myosin converter domain modulates muscle performance.

The converter domain modulates kinetic properties of Drosophila myosin.

Variable N-terminal regions of muscle myosin heavy chain modulate ATPase rate and actin sliding velocity.

Drosophila paramyosin is important for myoblast fusion and essential for myofibril formation.

UCS proteins: managing the myosin motor.

Kinetic analysis of Drosophila muscle myosin isoforms suggests a novel mode of mechanochemical coupling.

Alternative N-terminal regions of Drosophila myosin heavy chain tune muscle kinetics for optimal power output.

Passive stiffness of Drosophila IFM myofibrils: a novel, high accuracy measurement method.

Drosophila paramyosin is important for myoblast fusion and essential for myofibril formation.

Paramyosin phosphorylation site disruption affects indirect flight muscle stiffness and power generation in Drosophila melanogaster.

An alternative domain near the nucleotide-binding site of Drosophila muscle myosin affects ATPase kinetics.

An alternative domain near the ATP binding pocket of Drosophila myosin affects muscle fiber kinetics.

alphaB-crystallin maintains skeletal muscle myosin enzymatic activity and prevents its aggregation under heat-shock stress.

Passive stiffness in Drosophila indirect flight muscle reduced by disrupting paramyosin phosphorylation, but not by embryonic myosin S2 hinge substitution.

Transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila melanogaster muscle myosin heavy-chain gene.

Alternative S2 hinge regions of the myosin rod differentially affect muscle function, myofibril dimensions and myosin tail length.

A variable domain near the ATP-binding site in Drosophila muscle myosin is part of the communication pathway between the nucleotide and actin-binding sites.

Myosin transducer mutations differentially affect motor function, myofibril structure, and the performance of skeletal and cardiac muscles.

Alternative relay domains of Drosophila melanogaster myosin differentially affect ATPase activity, in vitro motility, myofibril structure and muscle function.

Similarities and differences between frozen-hydrated, rigor acto-S1 complexes of insect flight and chicken skeletal muscles.

Alternative versions of the myosin relay domain differentially respond to load to influence Drosophila muscle kinetics.

The XXXVII European muscle conference: Oxford September 2008.

Alternative exon 9-encoded relay domains affect more than one communication pathway in the Drosophila myosin head.

Alternative S2 hinge regions of the myosin rod affect myofibrillar structure and myosin kinetics.

Mutating the converter-relay interface of Drosophila myosin perturbs ATPase activity, actin motility, myofibril stability and flight ability.

Drosophila UNC-45 prevents heat-induced aggregation of skeletal muscle myosin and facilitates refolding of citrate synthase.

Drosophila UNC-45 accumulates in embryonic blastoderm and in muscles, and is essential for muscle myosin stability.

X-ray crystal structure of the UCS domain-containing UNC-45 myosin chaperone from Drosophila melanogaster.

A mighty small heart: the cardiac proteome of adult Drosophila melanogaster.

Two Drosophila myosin transducer mutants with distinct cardiomyopathies have divergent ADP and actin affinities.

The UNC-45 chaperone is critical for establishing myosin-based myofibrillar organization and cardiac contractility in the Drosophila heart model.

Disrupting the myosin converter-relay interface impairs Drosophila indirect flight muscle performance.

Structural basis for myopathic defects engendered by alterations in the myosin rod.

Transgenic expression and purification of myosin isoforms using the Drosophila melanogaster indirect flight muscle system.

Measuring passive myocardial stiffness in Drosophila melanogaster to investigate diastolic dysfunction.

Alternative Relay and Converter Domains Tune Native Muscle Myosin Isoform Function in Drosophila.