Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This barrier tissue performs its function thanks to specialized structures called junctions. They ensure cell cohesion and regulate ...

This paper presents the important finding that BNIP3/NIX, a mitophagy receptor, and its binding to ATG18 are required for mitophagy during muscle cell reorganization in Drosophila. Although the ...

The college’s Visualizing Science competition finalists include the winning image of a Logistic Map’s Chaotic Portion by an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...