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How would muscle contractions be affected if ATP was completely depleted in a muscle fiber?
Because ATP is required for myosin to release from actin, muscles would remain rigidly contracted until more ATP was available for the myosin cross-bridge release. This is why dead vertebrates undergo rigor mortis.
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