Skip to main content
The Journal of General Physiology logoLink to The Journal of General Physiology
. 1950 May 20;33(5):437–443. doi: 10.1085/jgp.33.5.437

THE POLYMERIZATION OF PROTEINS

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE AND THE POLYMERIZATION OF ACTIN

Koloman Laki 1, William J Bowen 1, Ariel Clark 1
PMCID: PMC2147212  PMID: 15422101

Abstract

It was found that actin solutions contain ATP. Experiments in which hexokinase and creatine were added to actin show that the ensuing dephosphorylation of ATP affects actin so that it will not polymerize.

Full Text

The Full Text of this article is available as a PDF (324.4 KB).


Articles from The Journal of General Physiology are provided here courtesy of The Rockefeller University Press

RESOURCES