Myosin chaperones are pivotal in ensuring proper muscle development by guiding the folding, assembly, and quality control of myosin motor proteins. These specialised proteins, such as UNC-45, ...

Muscles are made up of proteins. Myosin, a fibrous protein, serves as a molecular motor and converts the chemical energy stored inside our body into mechanical energy. The synergistic association ...

Each year, about 14,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest primary brain tumors. With standard treatments of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst kinesiologist has received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance his research on how myosin molecules—molecular ...

Cytokinetics Inc. has disclosed fast skeletal muscle myosin inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of Becker muscular dystrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, facioscapulohumeral muscular ...

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Living cells are highly organized, yet they are not assembled using rigid blueprints or by following a predetermined plan.

Using technologies like electron microscopy (EM) it is possible to capture molecular mechanisms in great detail, but not when these mechanisms are currently moving. The field of cryomicroscopy ...

A human heart might contract some three billion times over a lifetime, and each one of those contractions is driven by a protein called myosin. One of three classes of so-called motor proteins in our ...

Living cells are highly organized, yet they are not assembled using rigid blueprints or by following a predetermined plan. Instead, order emerges on ...