Examples of 'myosin' in a sentence

Meaning of "myosin"

myosin (noun): a type of protein found in muscle tissue that is essential for muscle contraction
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  • Any of a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic tissues, allowing mobility in muscles.
  • An albuminous body present in dead muscle formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis.

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Myosin light chains are involved in muscle contraction.
This increases myosin ATPase activity.
Myosin is the major protein that is extracted.
Thick filaments consist primarily of the protein myosin.
The myosin blots serve as loading controls.
It contains actin and myosin microfilaments.
Myosin phosphatase is made of three subunits.
It is mainly composed of the protein myosin.
Myosin filaments connect cell organelles to actin filaments.
The reaction between actin and myosin filaments.
Myosin is an example of a protein that bonds with actin.
That makes the tropomyosin block the myosin again.
Myosin is a motor protein implicated in smooth muscle contraction.
Light chain myosin kinase.
Myosin ATPase is very significantly activated by actin filaments.

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The filaments of actin and myosin then form linkages.
Myosin light chain kinases.
The movement mechanism for this myosin is poorly understood.
The myosin head now binds to the actin myofilament.
All contraction depends on the presence of actin and myosin.
It is the first myosin motor found to exhibit this behavior.
The sliding movement of actin filaments over myosin filaments.
Actin and myosin are commonly involved in cell motility systems.
A smaller protein with properties similar to those of myosin is tropomyosin.
The myosin is kept separately.
The release of energy powers the swiveling of the myosin head.
Myosin heavy chain.
This is accomplished through the use of an actin and myosin complex.
Numerous myosin deficiencies are related to disease states and genetic syndromes.
In mammalian cells we find a pattern of regular clusters of myosin and formin.
The interaction of myosin and actin is responsible for muscle contraction.
Research shows that PEMFs stimulate a process called myosin phosphorylation.
Myosin is the most extensively studied of all the motor proteins.
It is achieved primarily by either lowering intracellular calcium concentration or dephosphorylating myosin.
Myosin and its functionally related cousins are called motor proteins.
Thick filaments are made of many bonded units of the protein myosin.
The myosin isoenzyme population was used as a marker of changes in contractile performance of myofibrils.
This allows for the separation of chromosomes and myosin to work simultaneously.
The rods from many myosin molecules form the filament backbone.
Muscle contraction is the consequence of the interaction between actin and myosin.
The actin and myosin combine to form actomyosin as a result of rigor mortis.
I am gonna test the striated muscles to show the elasticity of the myosin myofibrils.
The data suggest that phosphorylation of myosin is extremely sensitive to prolonged muscle activity.
The main players in this intricate process are molecules called actin and myosin.
Energy is released and stored in the myosin head to utilize for later movement.
Due to the reaction to the toxin in the proteinaceous actin and myosin filaments.
Cardiac muscle myosin is the cytoskeletal motor protein in the cardiac muscle cell.
The results indicated that no disulfide bonds were present in the native myosin molecules.
Describe the organization of myosin and actin molecules in the thick and thin filaments.
These fibres are filled with very small proteins called actin and myosin.

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