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Directed movement is a characteristic of many living organisms and occurs as a result of the transformation of chemical energy into mechanical energy. Myosin is one of three families of molecular motors that are responsible for cellular motility. The three-dimensional structure of the head portion of myosin, or subfragment-1, which contains both the actin and nucleotide binding sites, is described. This structure of a molecular motor was determined by single crystal x-ray diffraction. The data provide a structural framework for understanding the molecular basis of motility.

2MYS is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_complex Protein complex] structure of sequences from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallus_gallus Gallus gallus] with <scene name='pdbligand=MG:'>MG</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=SO4:'>SO4</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. This structure supersedes the now removed PDB entry 1MYS. The following page contains interesting information on the relation of 2MYS with [[http://pdb.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=education_discussion/molecule_of_the_month/pdb18_1.html Myosin]]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=2MYS OCA].  

[[Category: Holden, H M.]]

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