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Surimi. Surimi (Japanese: 擂り身 / すり身, ' ground meat ') is a paste made from fish or other meat. It can also be any of a number of East Asian foods that use that paste as their primary ingredient. It is available in many shapes, forms, and textures, and is often used to mimic the texture and color of the meat of lobster, crab, grilled ...
Atoms in the heavy chain are colored pink (on the left-hand side); atoms in the light chains are colored faded-orange and faded-yellow (also on the left-hand side). Myosins (/ ˈmaɪəsɪn, - oʊ -/ [1][2]) are a family of motor proteins best known for their roles in muscle contraction and in a wide range of other motility processes in eukaryotes.
Myosin II is an elongated protein that is formed from two heavy chains with motor heads and two light chains. Each myosin head contains actin and ATP binding site. The myosin heads bind and hydrolyze ATP, which provides the energy to walk toward the plus end of an actin filament. Myosin II are also vital in the process of cell division. For ...
H2.00.05.0.00006. FMA. 67897. Anatomical terms of microanatomy. [edit on Wikidata] Myofilaments are the three protein filaments of myofibrils in muscle cells. The main proteins involved are myosin, actin, and titin. Myosin and actin are the contractile proteins and titin is an elastic protein. The myofilaments act together in muscle contraction ...
Bakso or baso (Jawi: باقسو) is an Indonesian meatball, [2] or a meat paste made from beef surimi. [3] Its texture is similar to the Chinese beef ball , fish ball , or pork ball . The word bakso may refer to a single meatball or the complete dish of meatball soup.
Tropomyosin is a two-stranded alpha-helical, coiled coil protein found in many animal and fungal cells. In animals, it is an important component of the muscular system which works in conjunction with troponin to regulate muscle contraction. It is present in smooth and striated muscle tissues, which can be found in various organs and body ...
Myomesin-2, also known as M-protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MYOM2 gene. [5] M-protein is expressed in adult cardiac muscle and fast skeletal muscle, and functions to stabilize the three-dimensional arrangement of proteins comprising M-band structures in a sarcomere.
The myosin head is the part of the thick myofilament made up of myosin that acts in muscle contraction, by sliding over thin myofilaments of actin.Myosin is the major component of the thick filaments and most myosin molecules are composed of a head, neck, and tail domain; the myosin head binds to thin filamentous actin, and uses ATP hydrolysis to generate force and "walk" along the thin filament.