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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
23138
World Ranking
4078
National Ranking
2004

Best Publications

  • A structural change in the kinesin motor protein that drives motility

    Sarah Rice;Abel W. Lin;Daniel Safer;Cynthia L. Hart

  • Conformational variations in an infectious protein determine prion strain differences

    Motomasa Tanaka;Peter Chien;Nariman Naber;Roger Cooke

  • The effects of ADP and phosphate on the contraction of muscle fibers

    R. Cooke;E. Pate

  • The mechanism of muscle contraction.

    Cooke R

  • The inhibition of rabbit skeletal muscle contraction by hydrogen ions and phosphate.

    R Cooke;K Franks;Giovanni Battista Luciani;E. Pate

  • The Properties of Water in Biological Systems

    R Cooke;I D Kuntz

  • Crystal structure of the motor domain of the kinesin-related motor ncd

    Sablin Ep;Kull Fj;Cooke R;Vale Rd

  • Actomyosin interaction in striated muscle

    R. Cooke

  • A model of crossbridge action: the effects of ATP, ADP and Pi.

    Edward Pate;Roger Cooke

  • Deciphering the super relaxed state of human β-cardiac myosin and the mode of action of mavacamten from myosin molecules to muscle fibers

    Robert L. Anderson;Darshan V. Trivedi;Saswata S. Sarkar;Marcus Henze

  • The effect of myosin phosphorylation on the contractile properties of skinned rabbit skeletal muscle fibers.

    A Persechini;J T Stull;R Cooke

  • A New State of Cardiac Myosin with Very Slow ATP Turnover: A Potential Cardioprotective Mechanism in the Heart

    Pleuni Hooijman;Melanie A. Stewart;Roger Cooke

  • Myosin ATP turnover rate is a mechanism involved in thermogenesis in resting skeletal muscle fibers.

    Melanie A. Stewart;Kathleen Franks-Skiba;Susan Chen;Roger Cooke

  • Reduced effect of pH on skinned rabbit psoas muscle mechanics at high temperatures: implications for fatigue

    E Pate;M Bhimani;K Franks-Skiba;R Cooke

  • Ethanol-induced fluidization of brain lipid bilayers: required presence of cholesterol in membranes for the expression of tolerance.

    David A. Johnson;Nancy M. Lee;Roger Cooke;Horace H. Loh

  • Two conformations in the human kinesin power stroke defined by X-ray crystallography and EPR spectroscopy

    Charles V. Sindelar;Mary Jane Budny;Sarah Rice;Nariman Naber

  • Thermodynamic Properties of the Kinesin Neck-Region Docking to the Catalytic Core

    S. Rice;Y. Cui;C. Sindelar;N. Naber

  • The chromatin remodeller ACF acts as a dimeric motor to space nucleosomes

    Lisa R. Racki;Janet G. Yang;Nariman Naber;Peretz D. Partensky

  • Contraction of glycerinated muscle fibers as a function of the ATP concentration.

    R. Cooke;William Bialek

  • All myosin heads form bonds with actin in rigor rabbit skeletal muscle.

    Roger Cooke;Kathleen Franks

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David D. Thomas
David D. Thomas University of Minnesota
Geeta J. Narlikar
Geeta J. Narlikar University of California, San Francisco
Yifan Cheng
Yifan Cheng University of California, San Francisco
Cristobal G. dos Remedios
Cristobal G. dos Remedios Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Ronald D. Vale
Ronald D. Vale University of California, San Francisco
Peter A. Kollman
Peter A. Kollman University of California, San Francisco
Nicola Marzari
Nicola Marzari École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
James A. Spudich
James A. Spudich Stanford University
Howard I. Maibach
Howard I. Maibach University of California, San Francisco
Robert J. Fletterick
Robert J. Fletterick University of California, San Francisco

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