Myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) is a multifunctional regulatory protein of smooth muscle contraction [IUBMB Life 51 (2001) 337, for review]. The well-established mode for its regulation is to phospho...
We succeeded in expressing a chimeric myosin that comprises the motor domain of characean algal myosin, (the fastest known motor protein), and the neck and tail domains of Dictyostelium myosin II. Alt...
Myosin binding protein C (MyBP-C) is one of the major sarcomeric proteins involved in the pathophysiology of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC). The cardiac isoform is tris-phosphorylated by c...
Searching for structural proteins involved in spermatogenesis of Drosophila, we found a novel myosin isoform in the testis of Drosophila hydei and D. melanogaster. The transcript encoding this isoform...
Acanthamoeba castellanii myosins IA and IB demonstrate the catalytic properties of a myosin and can support analogues of contractile and motile activity in vitro, but their single, low molecular weigh...