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Force Measurements From Myofibril to Filament [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Contractility, the generation of force and movement by molecular motors, is the hallmark of all muscles, including striated muscle. Contractility can be studied at every level of organization from a whole animal to single molecules.
Steven Marston
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020 Background Patients with repair of tetralogy of Fallot (rToF) who are approaching adulthood often exhibit pulmonary valve regurgitation, leading to right ventricle (RV) dilatation and dysfunction.
Daniel Brayson +12 more
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Lbx2regulates formation of myofibrils [PDF]
BMC Developmental Biology, 2009 Skeletal muscle differentiation requires assembly of contractile proteins into organized myofibrils. The Drosophila ladybird homeobox gene (lad) functions in founder cells of the segmental border muscle to promote myoblast fusion and muscle shaping. Tetrapods have two homologous genes (Lbx).
Ochi, Haruki, Westerfield, Monte
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Tension-driven multi-scale self-organisation in human iPSC-derived muscle fibers
eLife, 2022 Human muscle is a hierarchically organised tissue with its contractile cells called myofibers packed into large myofiber bundles. Each myofiber contains periodic myofibrils built by hundreds of contractile sarcomeres that generate large mechanical forces.
Qiyan Mao +16 more
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Expression and functional characterization of Smyd1a in myofibril organization of skeletal muscles. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BACKGROUND:Smyd1, the founding member of the Smyd family including Smyd-1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, is a SET and MYND domain containing protein that plays a key role in myofibril assembly in skeletal and cardiac muscles.
Jie Gao +5 more
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Cells, 2023 Plectin, a highly versatile cytolinker protein, is crucial for myofiber integrity and function. Accordingly, mutations in the human gene (PLEC) cause several rare diseases, denoted as plectinopathies, with most of them associated with progressive muscle ...
Lilli Winter +11 more
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Specific fluorescent labeling of chicken myofibril Z-line proteins catalyzed by guinea pig liver transglutaminase [PDF]
, 1979 Guinea pig liver transglutaminase has been found to catalyze the covalent incorporation of dansylcadaverine into chicken skeletal muscle myofibril proteins.
Gard, David L., Lazarides, Elias
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International Journal of Food Properties, 2022 Meat is the richest source of protein and according to meat sources, the protein is composed of different types of amino acids which are completely dependent upon the protein types. Myofibril is basically muscle protein that’s widely present in different
Waseem Khalid +8 more
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Properties of heat induced blend gel of Peruvian squid (Dosidicus gigas) myofibril protein fortified with millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) flour [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Weak gelation ability and simple nutrient composition of squid myofibril protein limits its further development in surimi production. Millet flour is rich in nutrients and has a good viscoelasticity after heating.
Wang Tian +4 more
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Modular proteins from the Drosophila sallimus (sls) gene and their expression in muscles with different extensibility [PDF]
, 2007 The passive elasticity of the sarcomere in striated muscle is determined by large modular proteins, such as titin in vertebrates. In insects, the function of titin is divided between two shorter proteins, projectin and sallimus (Sls), which are the ...
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