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What protein of the human body forms the contractile thin filaments of muscle cells?
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Are muscle tissues composed of cells?
yes it is made up of a group of smells! :P
Where are actin filaments found?
Actin and myosin are contractile proteins found within muscle fiber. If you look at a muscle fiber under a microscope it is made up of several repeating units called sarcomeres that run along the length of the muscle fiber. Proteins actin and myosin are found in the sarcomeres in different locations.
Do smooth muscle have thick and thin filament?
Both do have actin and myosin.Within each skeletal muscle fiber are hundreds of lengthwise subdivisions called myofibrils.Myofibrils are made up of bundles of the protein filaments (myofilaments) that are responsible for muscle contraction: thin filaments: made of the protein actin, andthick filaments: made of the protein myosin.These are visible using a microscope.The internal organization of actin and myosin in smooth muscle is different from that in the striated muscles.Smooth muscle cells: are long and slender, are spindle shaped, with a single, central nucleus, have scattered myosin fibers, with more heads per thick filament and have actin filaments attached to dense bodies.These can not be seen using a microscope and that is why they are also called smooth muscle fibers.
What are threadlike structures that provide support and shape for cells?
The threadlike structures that provide support and shape for cells are called cytoskeleton. The cytoskeleton consists of protein filaments, such as microtubules, actin filaments, and intermediate filaments, which give the cells their structural integrity and help in cell movement and division.
What are two myofilaments that slide past one another to allow muscle cells to contract?
Actin and Myosin
What is Myocin?
A fibrous protein that forms (together with actin) the contractile filaments of muscle cells and is also involved in motion in other types of cells.
What is the function of actin filaments?
providing structure support and involved in movement.
What is a contractible unit of muscle?
Sarcomere
Are muscle tissues composed of cells?
yes it is made up of a group of smells! :P
Where are actin filaments found?
Actin and myosin are contractile proteins found within muscle fiber. If you look at a muscle fiber under a microscope it is made up of several repeating units called sarcomeres that run along the length of the muscle fiber. Proteins actin and myosin are found in the sarcomeres in different locations.
What contractile elements are in muscle cells?
sacromere
Animal tissue predominantly of contractile cells?
muscle
Contractile elements of muscle cells are?
actin myosin
Myofibrils are constructed of overlapping strands of protein polymers?
Actin and Myosin. A conglomeration of actin fibrils and myosin filaments form a myofibril body called a sarcomere.
What protein allows muscle cells to expand contract?
There are three types of proteins in the muscle; contractile, regulatory, and structural. Contractile: Myosin and actin. Regulatory: tropomyosin and torponin. Structural: Titin, alpha-actin, Myomesin, Nebulin, and Dystrophin.
What is the contractile cell?
Contractile cells are the smooth muscle cells of the heart that... contract. They get their signal from the nodes within the heart, which spontaneously fire action potentials (because of leak channels).
What is a muscle made from?
A muscle is made of many cylindrical muscle fibers. The many fibers are bound together with connective tissue. Nerves and blood vessels (arteries and veins) run along the connective tissue.In every muscle fiber, there are thick filaments, made of the protein myosin, and thin filaments, made of the protein actin. The filaments overlap to form the sarcomere, a part of the muscle. Myosin has little heads that attach to actin, and pull on it. This is when the sarcomere contracts, and when all of the sarcomeres of a muscle contract, the entire muscle contracts.
