The unique feature of the myosin-V S1, the long lever arm, should, according to the swinging cross-bridge model, allow for a much longer step size than that observed for myosin II.

A new hydrogel-based platform to preserve live patient-derived tumor tissues in the lab could pave the way for faster, more ...

"Myosin walks like we walk, but with a 74-nanometer stride that is more than 10 million times smaller than ours," said Paul Selvin, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana ...

The research, which has direct implications for how root systems manage responses to plant hormones, also has broader implications for understanding the condensation of other motile proteins that move ...

Myosin-5 working stroke and walking on F-actin. (Credit: Klebl et al., 2024) The past years has seen many refinements in cryo-EM, with previously quite manual approaches shifting to microfluidics ...

While the study focused on A. thaliana, a model plant, ... Loss of myosin XI disrupts AtNIP5;1 positioning, impairs endocytic trafficking, and reduces boron absorption, ...

JUPITER, Fla., June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Myosin Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing first-in-class therapies targeting molecular motors, today announced that ...