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

The Kennedy College of Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, invites you to attend a Masters Thesis defense by Alfredo Bongiorno on "The Role of Key Tropomyosin-Troponin T Interactions in Thin ...

Medically reviewed by Katrina Carter, DPT Skeletal muscles are voluntary muscles that can be consciously controlled, such as the muscles of your limbs, head, neck, and body. They are attached to bones ...

Myosin is a diverse superfamily of motor proteins responsible for actin-based motility and contractility in eukaryotic cells. Myosin-18 family, including myosin-18A and myosin-18B, belongs to an ...

The sarcomere is the contractile unit within cardiomyocytes driving heart muscle contraction. We sought to test the mechanisms regulating actin and myosin filament assembly during sarcomere formation.

The axonal actin cortex as a weakly ordered meshwork. Hypothetical interactions of axonal NMII filaments with actin and spectrin in a weakly organized meshwork. Myosin filament reprinted ... are ...

Taken together, these data reveal that myosin-derived tension precisely controls both actin filament assembly and disassembly to ensure generation and proper alignment of contractile stress fibers in ...

As shown in Figure A, hES-derived cells growing in DC displayed smooth muscle (SM)-myosin heavy chain ... including SMMHC, SM-α-actin, and caldesmon. β-tubulin was used as the loading control. C, ...