Spectacular images of the process of myosin II filament formation and organization in migrating cells are unveiled by super-resolution imaging. A combination of short- and long-range interactions with ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Acanthamoeba myosin-I bound to substrates of nitrocellulose or planar lipid membranes on glass moved actin filaments at an average velocity of ...

Smooth muscle cells use an actin-myosin II-based contractile apparatus to produce force for a variety of physiological functions, including blood pressure regulation and gut peristalsis. The ...

Muscles contract thanks to the work of a protein called myosin. Using energy from adenosine triphosphate, this molecular motor works with fibrils of the protein actin to drive muscle contraction.

Research has uncovered how motor protein myosin, which is responsible for contraction of skeletal muscles, functions also in non-muscle cells to build contractile structures at the inner face of the ...

At the molecular level, muscle contraction is defined by myosin molecules pulling actin filaments. New electron cryomicroscopy images with unprecedented resolution taken by researchers at Osaka ...

Researchers have described, for the first time, the ordered arrangement of myosin-II filaments in actin cables of non-muscle cells. Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at ...

Actin filaments - protein structures critical to living movement from single cells to animals - have long been known to have polarity associated with their physical characteristics, with growing ...

Swarms of insects and flocks of birds are examples of natural systems in which individual components act independently, yet together display complex collective motion. Scientists have extensively ...

The Moore lab investigates how proteins build contractile systems that power cells and whole organisms. Collaboratively, we connect molecular mechanisms to tissue-level performance using ...