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John M. Squire

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based on one of these Alpbach Workshops and co-edited by Squire won the Best Professional/ Scholarly Publishing Journal: Medicine Award. Squire published well over 100 original papers, together with many reviews and in 1981 a 700-page monograph on The Structural Basis of Muscular Contraction. He
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Squire JM, Chew M, Nneji G, Neal C, Barry J, Michel C. Quasi-periodic substructure in the microvessel endothelial glycocalyx: a possible explanation for molecular filtering? J Struct Biol. 2001 Dec;136(3):239-255.
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Knupp C, Offer G, Ranatunga KW, Squire JM. Probing muscle myosin motor action: X-ray (m3 and m6) interference measurements report motor domain not lever arm movement. J Mol Biol. 2009 Jul 10;390(2):168-181.
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Parry DA, Squire JM. Structural role of tropomyosin in muscle regulation: analysis of the X-ray diffraction patterns from relaxed and contracting muscles. J Mol Biol. 1973 Mar 25;75(1):33-55.
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contraction. His early contributions were the proposal of the steric blocking mechanism for the regulation of muscle contraction, the discovery of face (side) polarity in the
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Al-Khayat HA, Kensler RW, Squire JM, Marston SB, Morris EP. Atomic model of the human cardiac muscle myosin filament. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jan 2;110(1):318-323.
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until his official retirement in 2006, when he was head of the Biological Structure and Function Section of what was then the Biomedical Sciences Division at
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Squire JM. General model of myosin filament structure. III. Molecular packing arrangements in myosin filaments. J Mol Biol. 1973 Jun 25;77(2):291-323.
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also wrote or edited several other books on muscle and on fibrous proteins. His final works were on the unresolved problem of how
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Harford JJ, Squire JM. Time-resolved diffraction studies of muscle using synchrotron radiation. Rep. Prog. Phys. 60, 1723-1787.
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Small JV, Squire JM. Structural basis of contraction in vertebrate smooth muscle. J Mol Biol. 1972 Jun 14; 67(1):117-149.
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he initiated and organised the first five Workshops on Coiled-coils, Collagen and Co-proteins held every four years in
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Squire JM. General model for the structure of all myosin-containing filaments. Nature. 1971 Oct 15;233(5320):457-462.
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in 1995. His final position was as honorary research fellow in the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology at
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analysis of static and contracting muscle, and recently had been involved in the structure analysis of isolated
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Squire JM (1981) The Structural Basis of Muscular Contraction. Plenum Press, New York.
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Squire started his career as a senior lecturer at the Biophysics Institute,
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data and the Imperial Muscle Initiative (IMI). With Professor
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Parry DAD, Squire JM (Eds) J Struct Biol. 2002 Jan-Feb;137(1-2):
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The main focus of his research was on the structural basis of
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in London, UK, to head the Biopolymer Group. He remained at
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contraction, as well as the structure and function of the
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Obituary: a tribute to Professor John Michael Squire
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Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
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Salisbury
King's College London
University of London
Imperial College London
University of Bristol
University of London
Imperial College London
University of Bristol
muscle
glycocalyx
Institute of Physics
Society of Biology
Biophysical Society
British Biophysical Society
COVID-19
COVID-19 pandemic in England
Fettes College
King's College
University of London
Aarhus University
Oxford University
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Imperial College
Imperial College
University of London
Bristol University
Imperial College London
muscle
myosin
smooth muscle

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