Muscle and Myosin

• Kendrick-Jones Lab (MRC LMB, Cambridge) Myosin diversity
• Muscle and Motility Research Centre (KCL)
• Leeds Muscle Group Home Page EM studies of myosin structure
• Michelle Peckham's Lab (Leeds) Myoblasts, early muscle differentiation, and muscle contraction
• Bagshaw Lab (Leicester) Single molecule and single turnover kinetics
• Mooseker Lab (Yale)
• The Imperial Muscle Institute (Imperial College)
• John Squire's Group (Imperial College)
• Bernstein Lab (San Diego) Muscle genetics in Drosophila
• Ken Holmes Homepage (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg) Structural studies of muscle contraction
• Muscle Research Unit (Sydney)
• James D. Potter (Miami) Regulation of muscle contraction
• Bruce Patterson (Arizona) Myosin mutagenesis in Dictyostelium
• Mike Geeves (Canterbury) Rapid kinetics of actomyosin and thin filament regulation
• Warshaw Lab (Vermont) Single myosin molecule mechanics
• Cellular and Molecular Motility Section, NHLBI Lab of Molecular Cardiology, NIH. (Jim Sellers). Myosin diversity
• Burnside Lab (UC Berkeley) Photoreceptor Motor Proteins
• Marston Lab (NHLI) Cardiac Medicine
• Minnesota Muscle Laboratory (Thomas Lab, University of Minnesota)

Microtubule & DNA Motors

• Allan Lab (Manchester) Microtubule motors and membrane traffic
• Block Lab (Princeton)
• Gelles Lab (Brandeis)
• Gross Lab (University of California, Irvine) Regulation of microtubule motors
• King Lab(University of Connecticut)
• Mandelkow Lab (Hamburg) Kinesin structures
• MCRI Motors Group
• Szczelkun Lab (Bristol) DNA-based motor proteins
• Salmon Lab (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Mitosis, Microtubules and Microscopy
• Scholey Lab (UC Davis)

Cytoskeleton

• Theriot Lab (Stanford) Intracellular pathogen motility. Some great movies!
• Mitchison Lab (Harvard)
• Maciver Lab (Edinburgh) Actin cytoskeleton, motility and amoebae

Motor and Muscle Links

• The Myosin Homepage
• Muscle and motility lectures from the University of Illinois
• British Biophysical Society and its What is Biophysics? pages (including useful background material on light microscopy and muscle biophysics).
• Atomic Force Microscopy of Myosin
• The MUSCLE Home Page at BRANDEIS
• Kinesin Home Page
• Kinesin Rooolz!
• Myosin Head entry in Pfam (at the Sanger Centre)
• Motor Proteins Family in SCOP
• The introduction to muscle physiology and design (at UCSD)
• Skeletal Muscles of the Human Body
• Muscle Histology

DNA motors

•  3D Polymerase Structures from Darst Lab

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