When myosin is activated, the contractile filaments slide apart and the muscle cell relaxes. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine for 1998 - Animation] Reference
The motor protein myosin, for example, is involved in the the contraction of muscle fibers in animals. From Wordnik.com. [Nested Universe - Singularity Blog, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Cosmology, Science and Technology] Reference
Every technical explanation in the literature (that iv'e seen) as to why myosin is a motor referrs to the actual definition of a motor. From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
Write "linear motor" on the A column and "myosin" on the B column. From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
Think of actin and myosin, the contractile proteins. From Wordnik.com. [An Amazing Design Material] Reference
My point all along is that myosin is in fact a motor. From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
Rotation is actually part of the proposed myosin motor mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
Rotation is actually part of some proposed myosin motor mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
This particular logic is very much like a ratchet, but myosin itself is a motor. From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
The parts of myosin that do the walking are called the necks and heads, not legs. From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
And we just happen to prefer, texturally, when myosin denatures, which starts around 122. From Wordnik.com. [New Frontier For Geeks: The Kitchen] Reference
"Actually, the human-made motor walks through the use of pairs of legs much like myosin, …". From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
NO induces synthesis of cGMP by stimulation of GC leading to relaxation of myosin (muscle protein). From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998] Reference
Of all proteins in meat, myosin is the most important; it exists in greater quantity than the other proteins. From Wordnik.com. [School and Home Cooking] Reference
How could I be moving the goalpost when I showed examples of motors that "walk" (myosin and human-made ones). From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
Check out pubmed for discussion of the rotation of the lever arm in a proposed myosin mechanism (for one example). From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
One paper was titled, Cloning and characterization of mouse brush border myosin-I in adult and embryonic intestine. From Wordnik.com. [Scandal Bruises a Star Investor] Reference
In 1938 he commenced work on muscle research and quickly discovered the proteins actin and myosin and their complex. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Szent-Györgyi - Biography] Reference
Actually, the human-made motor walks through the use of pairs of legs much like myosin, it doesn't just extrude a shaft. From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
Regional alterations in the expression of smooth muscle myosin isoforms in response to partial bladder outlet obstruction. From Wordnik.com. [Publications of the Urology Division] Reference
You're having trouble with the definition of "motor" and why actual scientists think myosin, kinesin, etc fit that description. From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
And the rotation just refers to angular motion, an obvious part of the walking (or paddling, in the case of myosin-II) mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?] Reference
Cyclic GMP starts a cascade reaction that activates myosin, an important component of the contractile apparatus in the muscle cell. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine for 1998 - Animation] Reference
If alpha and beta would be identical, then there would have been the possibility to make a long fiber like an actin or myosin fiber. From Wordnik.com. [2010 June - Telic Thoughts] Reference
And that's based on the two temperatures that myosin and actin, which are two different proteins that occur in mammalian meat, denature. From Wordnik.com. [New Frontier For Geeks: The Kitchen] Reference
I don't know much about the science, but myosin blockers seem like a much more promising route to powerful, healthy bodies for all of us. From Wordnik.com. [Cancel all your baseball memories.] Reference
Immunofluorescence of myosin heavy chain expression. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
Kiehart DP, Feghali R (1986) Cytoplasmic myosin from Drosophila melanogaster. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Calcium activates myosin light chain kinase, which in turn induce contractions. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
Cytokinetics continues to conduct non-clinical development of its smooth muscle myosin inhibitors. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]
The pulling comes from the protein motors, actin and myosin, that power the cell's cytoskeletal transport system. From Wordnik.com. [HHMI News] Reference
myosin performs ATP free energy transduction into mechanical work in the motor domain of the myosin heavy chain (MHC). From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
In order to test this theory, Gutzman exposed mutant embryos to blebbistatin, a drug known to inhibit the activity of myosin. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Sokac AM, Berg JS, Cheney RE, Bement WM (2004) A microtubule-binding myosin required for nuclear anchoring and spindle assembly. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Though the specific mutation in question affects myosin phosphatase, myosin phosphatase ultimately regulates the activity of myosin. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
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