Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to be just a cellular "courier" actually helps plants survive drought. This motor protein, myosin XI, plays a critical role in helping leaves ...

This study explores the use of polarized second-harmonic generation (pSHG) to investigate myosin conformation in the relaxed state, differentiating between the actin-available, disordered (ON) state ...

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

Understanding Muscle Protein Dynamics Muscle movement relies on the interaction between two key proteins: actin and myosin. These proteins slide past each other to generate the force needed for ...

This article describes the structure of the actin motor protein, myosin, and its utilization in normal cellular processes.

Smooth muscle myosin II (SMII), the main motor protein in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC), generates the contractile forces crucial to VSMC function. SMII filaments assemble into bundles that bind ...

Mutation E334Q in cytoskeletal γ-actin leads to impaired interaction of actin filaments with actin-binding proteins belonging to the myosin and ADF/cofilin families.

This article presents a mathematical and computational model for cell migration that couples a system of reaction-advection-diffusion equations describing the bio-molecular interactions between ...

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Cytokinesis requires the assembly and constriction of a contractile ring, a circumferential array of filamentous actin (F-actin), non-muscle myosin II motors (myosin), and actin-binding proteins that ...