While their functions are diverse, myosins are similar in structure. NMII is so much like cardiac myosin, which keeps the ...

The link between cytoskeletal actin dynamics and correlated gene activities was unclear. However, the discovery that globular actin polymerization liberates myocardin family transcriptional ...

In muscle, actin filaments serve as tracks for force generation by myosin motors. Non-muscle cells contain similar force-generating assemblages of actin and myosin, including stress fibres and the ...

29 Benzonana G, Skalli O, Gabbiani G. Correlation between the distribution of smooth muscle or non muscle myosin and α-smooth muscle actin in normal and pathological soft tissues.

Major contractile proteins were purified from relaxed actomyosin extracted from molluscan catch muscle myofibrils using ammonium sulfate fractionation and divalent cation precipitation. A fraction of ...

Myosin II, like many molecular motors, is a two-headed dimer held together by a coiled-coil rod. The stability of the (S2) rod has implications for head−head interactions, force generation, and ...

Several histopathological (neuropathic and myopathic) phenotypes have been described but only a single adult with jejunal smooth (circular) muscle α-actin deficiency. We present a prospective ...

Some distinctive features of zebrafish myogenesis based on unexpected distributions of the muscle cytoskeletal proteins actin, myosin, desmin, a-actinin, troponin and titin.

Abstract The aim of the present study was to investigate the expression of alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SM-actin) and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) in renal cortex from patients with ...

Finally, they develop a 3D hydrogel for the culturing of multiple organoids and found that they synchronize their contractile activities through interconnecting smooth muscle cells, suggesting that ...

This valuable study reports the development of a novel organoid system for studying the emergence of autorhythmic gut peristaltic contractions through the interaction between interstitial cells of ...

A research group led by Dr. Keisuke Obara, Dr. Kento Yoshioka, and Professor Yoshio Tanaka from the Department of Chemical ...