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h-index: 27
Works: 113
Citations: 2,532

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Two step mechanism of phosphate release and the mechanism of force generation in chemically skinned fibers of rabbit psoas muscle.
M. Kawai, H. Halvorson
1991Biophysical Journal186 citations Open access
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Kinetic and thermodynamic studies of the cross-bridge cycle in rabbit psoas muscle fibers.
Yan Zhao, M. Kawai
1994Biophysical Journal146 citations Open access
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Crossbridge scheme and the kinetic constants of elementary steps deduced from chemically skinned papillary and trabecular muscles of the ferret.
M. Kawai, Y. Saeki, Yan Zhao
1993Circulation Research143 citations Open access
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The effect of the lattice spacing change on cross-bridge kinetics in chemically skinned rabbit psoas muscle fibers. II. Elementary steps affected by the spacing change.
Yan Zhao, M. Kawai
1993Biophysical Journal100 citations Open access
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Cross-bridge scheme and force per cross-bridge state in skinned rabbit psoas muscle fibers.
M. Kawai, Yan Zhao
1993Biophysical Journal86 citations Open access
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Effect of temperature on elementary steps of the cross‐bridge cycle in rabbit soleus slow‐twitch muscle fibres
Gang Wang, M. Kawai
2001Journal of Physiology77 citations Open access
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The effect of lattice spacing change on cross-bridge kinetics in chemically skinned rabbit psoas muscle fibers. I. Proportionality between the lattice spacing and the fiber width.
M. Kawai, J. Wray, Yan Zhao
1993Biophysical Journal70 citations Open access
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Enhanced active cross-bridges during diastole: molecular pathogenesis of tropomyosin's HCM mutations.
Fan Bai, A. Weis, Aya K. Takeda, P. Chase +1 more
2011Biophysical Journal68 citations Open access
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Comparison of crossbridge dynamics between intact and skinned myocardium from ferret right ventricles.
Y. Saeki, M. Kawai, Yan Zhao
1991Circulation Research57 citations Open access
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Structural and functional aspects of the myosin essential light chain in cardiac muscle contraction
P. Muthu, Li Wang, C. Yuan, K. Kaźmierczak +5 more
2011The FASEB Journal56 citations Open access
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A study of tropomyosin's role in cardiac function and disease using thin-filament reconstituted myocardium
Fan Bai, Li Wang, M. Kawai
2013Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility52 citations Open access
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Elementary steps of the cross-bridge cycle in bovine myocardium with and without regulatory proteins.
H. Fujita, D. Sasaki, S. Ishiwata, M. Kawai
2002Biophysical Journal48 citations Open access
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BDM affects nucleotide binding and force generation steps of the cross-bridge cycle in rabbit psoas muscle fibers.
Yan Zhao, M. Kawai
1994American Journal of Physiology44 citations
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Control of structural transition in FeSe1−xTex thin films by changing substrate materials
Y. Imai, Y. Sawada, F. Nabeshima, D. Asami +2 more
2017Scientific Reports43 citations Open access
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What do we learn by studying the temperature effect on isometric tension and tension transients in mammalian striated muscle fibres?
M. Kawai
2004Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility39 citations
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Temperature change does not affect force between regulated actin filaments and heavy meromyosin in single‐molecule experiments
M. Kawai, T. Kido, M. Vogel, R. Fink +1 more
2006Journal of Physiology37 citations Open access
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Elementary steps of the cross-bridge cycle in fast-twitch fiber types from rabbit skeletal muscles.
S. Galler, B. Wang, M. Kawai
2005Biophysical Journal37 citations Open access
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Temperature change does not affect force between single actin filaments and HMM from rabbit muscles.
M. Kawai, Kenji Kawaguchi, M. Saito, S. Ishiwata
2000Biophysical Journal36 citations Open access
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The role of orthophosphate in crossbridge kinetics in chemically skinned rabbit psoas fibres as detected with sinusoidal and step length alterations
M. Kawai
1986Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility36 citations
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The effect of tropomyosin on force and elementary steps of the cross‐bridge cycle in reconstituted bovine myocardium
H. Fujita, Xiaoying Lu, Madoka Suzuki, S. Ishiwata +1 more
2004Journal of Physiology32 citations
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Inotropic agent EMD-53998 weakens nucleotide and phosphate binding to cross bridges in porcine myocardium.
Yuanzi Zhao, M. Kawai
1996American Journal of Physiology32 citations
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Force transients and minimum cross-bridge models in muscular contraction
M. Kawai, H. Halvorson
2008Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility31 citations Open access
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The role of tropomyosin isoforms and phosphorylation in force generation in thin-filament reconstituted bovine cardiac muscle fibres
Xiaoying Lu, D. Heeley, L. Smillie, M. Kawai
2010Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility30 citations Open access
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Temperature effect on isometric tension is mediated by regulatory proteins tropomyosin and troponin in bovine myocardium
H. Fujita, M. Kawai
2002Journal of Physiology30 citations Open access
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Role of the N‐terminal negative charges of actin in force generation and cross‐bridge kinetics in reconstituted bovine cardiac muscle fibres
Xiaoying Lu, Mary K. Bryant, K. E. Bryan, P. Rubenstein +1 more
2005Journal of Physiology27 citations Open access
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Effects of tropomyosin internal deletion Δ23Tm on isometric tension and the cross‐bridge kinetics in bovine myocardium
Xiaoying Lu, Larry S. Tobacman, M. Kawai
2003Journal of Physiology27 citations Open access
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The role of collagen crosslinking in the increased stiffness of avian dystrophic muscle
H. Feit, M. Kawai, A. S. Mostafapour
1989Muscle and Nerve27 citations
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Characterizations of myosin essential light chain’s N-terminal truncation mutant Δ43 in transgenic mouse papillary muscles by using tension transients in response to sinusoidal length alterations
Li Wang, P. Muthu, Danuta Szczesna‐Cordary, M. Kawai
2013Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility26 citations Open access
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Temperature-dependence of isometric tension and cross-bridge kinetics of cardiac muscle fibers reconstituted with a tropomyosin internal deletion mutant.
Xiaoying Lu, L. Tobacman, M. Kawai
2006Biophysical Journal26 citations Open access
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Use of thin filament reconstituted muscle fibres to probe the mechanism of force generation
M. Kawai, S. Ishiwata
2006Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility26 citations Open access
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Using baculovirus/insect cell expressed recombinant actin to study the molecular pathogenesis of HCM caused by actin mutation A331P
Fan Bai, Hannah M. Caster, P. Rubenstein, J. F. Dawson +1 more
2014Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology25 citations Open access
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The role of tropomyosin domains in cooperative activation of the actin-myosin interaction
Y. Oguchi, J. Ishizuka, S. Hitchcock-Degregori, S. Ishiwata +1 more
2011Journal of Molecular Biology24 citations Open access
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A re-interpretation of the rate of tension redevelopment (kTR) in active muscle
Li Wang, M. Kawai
2013Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility22 citations Open access
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Nebulin increases thin filament stiffness and force per cross-bridge in slow-twitch soleus muscle fibers
M. Kawai, Tarek S. Karam, Justin Kolb, Li Wang +1 more
2018The Journal of General Physiology21 citations Open access
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Molecular forces involved in force generation during skeletal muscle contraction.
Kenneth P. Murphy, Yan Zhao, M. Kawai
1996Journal of Experimental Biology21 citations
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The immediate effect of HCM causing actin mutants E99K and A230V on actin-Tm-myosin interaction in thin-filament reconstituted myocardium.
Fan Bai, Hannah M. Caster, J. F. Dawson, M. Kawai
2015Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology20 citations
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Mechanisms of Frank-Starling law of the heart and stretch activation in striated muscles may have a common molecular origin
M. Kawai, Jian-Ping Jin
2021Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility19 citations Open access
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Diversity and Similarity of Motor Function and Cross-Bridge Kinetics in Papillary Muscles of Transgenic Mice Carrying Myosin Regulatory Light Chain Mutations D166V and R58Q
Li Wang, P. Muthu, Danuta Szczesna‐Cordary, M. Kawai
2013Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology19 citations Open access
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DCM-Related Tropomyosin Mutants E40K/E54K Over-Inhibit the Actomyosin Interaction and Lead to a Decrease in the Number of Cycling Cross-Bridges
Fan Bai, Heather L. Groth, M. Kawai
2012PLoS ONE19 citations Open access
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Tropomyosin Period 3 Is Essential for Enhancement of Isometric Tension in Thin Filament-Reconstituted Bovine Myocardium
M. Kawai, Xiaoying Lu, S. Hitchcock-Degregori, K. Stanton +1 more
2009Journal of Biophysics19 citations Open access
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Does thin filament compliance diminish the cross-bridge kinetics? A study in rabbit psoas fibers.
Gang Wang, Wei Ding, M. Kawai
1999Biophysical Journal18 citations Open access
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High Ionic Strength Depresses Muscle Contractility by Decreasing both Force per Cross-bridge and the Number of Strongly Attached Cross-bridges
Li Wang, A. Bahadir, M. Kawai
2015Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility17 citations Open access
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Increased resistance of the collagen in avian dystrophic muscle to collagenolytic attack: Evidence for increased crosslinking
H. Feit, M. Kawai, A. S. Mostafapour
1989Muscle and Nerve16 citations
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Myosin Rod Hypophosphorylation and CB Kinetics in Papillary Muscles from a TnC-A8V KI Mouse Model.
M. Kawai, Jamie R Johnston, Tarek S. Karam, Li Wang +2 more
2017Biophysical Journal15 citations Open access
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Growth of Superconducting Epitaxial Films of Sulfur Substituted FeSe via Pulsed Laser Deposition
F. Nabeshima, T. Ishikawa, O. Kenichi, M. Kawai +1 more
201814 citations Open access
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Systematic study on transport properties of FeSe thin films with various degrees of strain
F. Nabeshima, M. Kawai, T. Ishikawa, N. Shikama +1 more
2018Japanese Journal of Applied Physics14 citations Open access
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Effect of MgATP and MgADP on the crossbridge kinetics in chemically skinned rabbit psoas fibers: an interpretation of a fast exponential process (C).
M. Kawai, H. Halvorson
1989Progress in clinical and biological research13 citations
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Comparison of elementary steps of the cross-bridge cycle in rat papillary muscle fibers expressing α- and β-myosin heavy chain with sinusoidal analysis
M. Kawai, Tarek S. Karam, J. Michael, Li Wang +1 more
2016Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility11 citations
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Analysis of the molecular pathogenesis of cardiomyopathy-causing cTnT mutants I79N, ΔE96, and ΔK210.
Fan Bai, Hannah M. Caster, J. Pinto, M. Kawai
2013Biophysical Journal11 citations Open access
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Elementary steps of contraction probed by sinusoidal analysis technique in rabbit psoas fibers.
M. Kawai, Yan Zhao, H. Halvorson
1993Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology11 citations
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