| EPR | Electron paramagnetic resonance |
| Cys | Cysteine |
| RLC | Regulatory light chain |
| AM | Actin-myosin |
| FRET | Forster fluorescence resonance energy transfer |
| HMM | Heavy meromyosin |
| S1 | Subfragment-1 |
| NMR | Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| CW | Continuous wave |
| SDSL | Site directed spin-labeling |
| PELDOR | Pulsed electron double resonance |
| DEER | Double electron-electron resonance |
| DQC | Double quantum coherence |
| MSL | 4-maleimido-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl- 1-piperidinyloxy |
| IASL | N-(1-oxyl-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperdinyl)iodoacetamide |
| MTSL | (1-oxyl-2,2,5,5-tetramethylpyrrolidin-3-yl)methylmethanethiosulfonate |
| PKA | Protein kinase A |
| PKC | Protein kinase C |
| IDP | Intrinsically disordered protein |
| Tn | Troponin |
| cTn | Cardiac troponin |
| Tm | Tropomyosin |
| K | Kinesin |
| MT | Microtubule |
| NL | Neck linker |
| NN | No nucleotide |
| ATPγS | Adenosine 5′-(γ-thio)triphosphate |
| AMPPNP | Adenosine 5′-(β,γ-imido)triphosphate |
| AMP-PCP | β,γ-Methyleneadenosine 5′-triphosphate |
| KaiAc | KaiA C-terminal domain |
| KaiC6mer | Hexameric KaiC |