Thick filament structure in the relaxed cardiac sarcomere (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology

Thick filament structure in the relaxed cardiac sarcomere

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Thick filament structure in the relaxed cardiac sarcomere. The upper image shows a tomographic slice of a cardiac sarcomere. Thin filaments are marked with a green and thick filaments with a purple arrow. The middle image shows the reconstructed thick (purple) and thin (green) filaments. The lower image shows the structure of the thin filament spanning across several sarcomere regions. Scale bar shows 50 nm.

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MPI of Molecular Physiology

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