Rest assured, the hype is real. Hypertrophy is, by definition, the enlargement of an organ or tissue from the increase in ...

An individual sarcomere contains many parallel actin (thin) and myosin (thick) filaments. The interaction of myosin and actin proteins is at the core of our current understanding of sarcomere ...

Building muscle isn’t just a matter of showing up and working out however and whenever you want. Looking in the mirror ...

No biological system has been studied by more diverse approaches than the actin-based molecular motor myosin. Biophysics, biochemistry, physiology, classical genetics and molecular genetics have ...

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 ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. A.S. Smith et al., “Myosin IIA interacts with the spectrin-actin membrane skeleton to control red blood cell membrane curvature and deformability ...

Our lab’s investigations of cardiac muscle contraction focus on the effects of cardiomyopathy-causing amino acid substitutions on myosin’s mechanical and ... We are also investigating actin filament ...