The capability of cells to generate contractile forces originates from the activity of the molecular motor myosin II on its substrate actin filaments. Although the molecular constituents of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The structural basis for the function of microtubules and filaments in cell body contractility in the ciliate Stentor coeruleus was ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The long slender retinal cones of fishes shorten in the light and elongate in the dark. Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model ...

Tropomodulin maintains the fine balance between the protein machineries responsible for cell movement and morphogenesis. Disturbances in this balance are common in many diseases, for example, invasive ...

Researchers have identified a key step required for cell division in a study that could help improve therapies to treat cancer. Their work describing the mechanism of the contractile ring -- a ...

- Muscle cells, also known as myocytes, are specialized cells designed for contraction and force production. Skeletal Muscle Cells: These cells are long, cylindrical, and have a striated (or striped) ...

Muscle-specific protein cofilin-2 controls the length of actin filaments in muscle cells. Researchers have now revealed a new mechanism that is essential for the correct organization of related ...

THE observations of my son Francis on the contractile filaments protruded from the glands of Dipsacus, 1 offer so new and remarkable a fact in the physiology of plants, that any confirmation of them ...

Actomyosin is a protein complex composed of actin and myosin. It is found in muscle fibers where it plays a role in muscle contraction. Actin is one of the most abundant proteins in eukaryotes. It ...