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Volume 33, Issue 5
20 May 1950
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Article| May 20 1950

THE POLYMERIZATION OF PROTEINS : ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE AND THE POLYMERIZATION OF ACTIN

Koloman Laki,
Koloman Laki
From the Laboratory of Physical Biology, Experimental Biology, and Medicine Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
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William J. Bowen,
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Ariel Clark
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Koloman Laki
From the Laboratory of Physical Biology, Experimental Biology, and Medicine Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
William J. Bowen
From the Laboratory of Physical Biology, Experimental Biology, and Medicine Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Ariel Clark
From the Laboratory of Physical Biology, Experimental Biology, and Medicine Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Received: November 09 1949
Online ISSN: 1540-7748
Print ISSN: 0022-1295
Copyright, 1950, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
1950
J Gen Physiol (1950) 33 (5): 437–443.
https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.33.5.437
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November 09 1949

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.

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