myosin
IPA: mˈaɪʌsʌn
noun
- (biochemistry) 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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Examples of "myosin" in Sentences
- Myosin isoforms in mammalian skeletal muscle.
- Contains no information not already found at myosin.
- It is the first myosin motor to exhibit this behavior.
- The movement mechanism for this myosin is poorly understood.
- Myosin III is a poorly understood member of the myosin family.
- Myosin VIIA is an unconventional myosin with a very short tail.
- Write "linear motor" on the A column and "myosin" on the B column.
- The next myosin identified was myosin I and then in order of class name.
- Myosin VIIA is a member of the unconventional myosin superfamily of proteins.
- Myosin 11 is a smooth muscle myosin belonging to the myosin heavy chain family.
- Myosin VII is an unconventional myosin with two FERM domains in the tail region.
- When myosin is activated, the contractile filaments slide apart and the muscle cell relaxes.
- The motor protein myosin, for example, is involved in the the contraction of muscle fibers in animals.
- : Regional alterations in the expression of smooth muscle myosin isoforms in response to partial bladder outlet obstruction.
- Every technical explanation in the literature (that iv'e seen) as to why myosin is a motor referrs to the actual definition of a motor.
- However, dendritic proteins enable the vesicles transporting them to bind to a second motor, known as myosin, that literally walks them back into the dendrite.
- Wu HY, Zderic SA, Wein AJ, Chacko S: Decrease in maximal force generation in the neonatal mouse bladder corresponds to shift in myosin heavy chain isoform composition.
- Austin JC, Chacko SK, DiSanto M, Canning DA, Zderic SA: A male murine model of partial bladder outlet obstruction reveals changes in detrusor morphology, contractility and myosin isoform expression.
- Until recently, scientists thought RGS proteins, which are found only in small quantities in the heart -- a thousand times less than other, more common proteins, such as myosin and metabolic proteins -- played no key role in heart function.
- As the structural and thermodynamic data about ATP mounted, combined with the enzymatic information and the discovery of myosin, Meyerhof was finally in a position to formally propose that the release of energy in ATP hydrolysis was the primary event leading to muscle contraction and that lactic acid and creatine phosphate were only indirectly involved through their role of maintaining the ATP cycle.
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