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The interaction of myosin and actin proteins is at the core of our current understanding of sarcomere shortening. How does this shortening happen? It has something to do with a sliding interaction ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

For decades, researchers have been wondering what gives red blood cells their characteristic curves, and now Fowler and her colleagues have the answer: myosin proteins tug on the red blood cell’s ...

Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells, which form a barrier that defends the body from the outside ...

In this type of contraction, a protein in your muscles called myosin binds to another protein called actin and drags it to shorten muscle fibres. Now, imagine yourself starting at the top Your ...

In the developing brain, neurons must navigate through complex and often crowded tissue to reach their final ...

The layoffs will take place throughout 2025 and will mostly affect Tenaya’s research and manufacturing operations. The ...

Their work reveals a mechanism of interdependence of different forms of the cytoskeletal proteins actin and myosin, and their functions. The team also demonstrates the key role of gamma-actin in ...