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myosin
a protein of muscle
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
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Myosin II, the most conspicuous of the myosin superfamily due to its abundance in muscle fibers, was the first to be discovered.
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Myosin is a motor protein filament found in muscle tissue. Together with actin filaments, myosin provides the mechanism for muscle contraction, utilizing energy from ATP.
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myosin: a protein microfilament that comprises the sarcomere of muscle cells.
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natural selection: the concept that random, small variations take place in living things that lead to the gradual development of a species.
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Myosin:
Myosin constitutes the thick filament or myofilaments of the striated muscle cells.
Each individual molecule of myosin (mol wt. 500 000) is shaped like a double-headed golf club with a hinged shaft.
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Myosin heads attach to binding sites on the actin filaments. The myosin heads swivel toward the center of the sarcomere, detach and then reattach to the nearest active site of the actin filament.
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myosin
(my-uh-sin) [Gk. mys, muscle]
A type of protein filament that interacts with actin filaments to cause cell contraction.
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myosin A large protein of contractile tissue that forms the thick myofilaments of striated muscle. During contraction it combines with actin to form actomyosin.
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Together myosin, actin, tropomyosin, and troponin make up over three-quarters of the protein in muscle fibers. Some two dozen other proteins make up the rest.
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On the other hand, XNU + BLASTP is, in some cases, able to detect regions of similarity in the myosin heavy chain family, which has some members with a minimal amount of repetitive region.
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2: Unrooted tree for myosin gene
A phylogenetic tree is a tree showing the evolutionary interrelationships among various species or other entities that are believed to have a common ancestor. A phylogenetic tree is a form of a cladogram.
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mutation An inheritable change in the nucleotide sequence of a gene. myofibril A unit of thick and thin filaments of muscle fibers. myosin The major component of the thick filaments of muscle and other actin-myosin systems, ...
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myofibrils
Fibrils arranged in longitudinal bundles in muscle cells (fibers); composed of thin filaments of actin and a regulatory protein and thick filaments of myosin.
Covered in Lab 15 Rat Muscular and Digestive Systems ...
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