Muscle Contraction and Cell Motility

Haruo Sugi graduated from the Postgraduate School of the University of Tokyo, Japan, with a PhD in 1962 and was appointed instructor in the Department of Physiology of the University of Tokyo. From 1965 to 1966, he worked at Columbia University as a research associate and at the National Institutes of Health as a visiting scientist. He was a professor in and chairman of the Department of Physiology, Teikyo University Medical School, Japan, from 1973 to 2004, when he became emeritus professor.

Definite differences between in vitro actin-myosin sliding and muscle contraction revealed by the effect of antibodies to myosin head. Mechanism of force potentiation after stretch in intact mammalian muscle. The catch state of molluscan smooth muscle. The "functional cross-bridge": A basis in structurally-altered kinetic changes in sarcomere mechanics in Drosophila flight muscle. Regulation of myosin function and cardiac contraction by essential myosin light chains. Characteristics and mechanisms of force generation by increase of temperature in active skeletal muscle. What X-ray diffraction can tell us about muscle contraction. ATP utilization in cardiac and skeletal muscle: economy and efficiency. Visualization and recording of myosin head power stroke in skeletal muscle. From artifact to essential component: evolution of function of MYBPC in cardiac muscle.