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What cross-bridge cycling requires is ATP, actin, inorganic phosphate, myosin, and ADP.
Atp plays a critical role in muscle. Breaking of the cross-bridge is possible only if atp binds to myosin, thereby allowing it to be free for the following contraction.
Hydrolysis of ATP
ATP binds to the myosin head
ATP binding to the myosin head
Glycerinated muscle can shorten when ATP is present, allowing myosin cross-bridges to form and generate force. However, once ATP is depleted or unavailable, glycerinated muscle cannot shorten as it lacks the energy to power the cross-bridge cycling.
during the cocking of the myosin head
ATP binds to the myosin head.
1. ATP hydrolysis 2. Cross-bridge formation 3. Release of ADP and phosphate (p) 4. ATP binding; Cross-bridge dissociation
The molecule that binds to myosin, which causes it to disconnect, is an ATP molecule
Before the cross bridges of myosin can attach to actin.
the pholsphorilation of ATP to ADP and an inorganic P