In his working group, Professor Tsiavaliaris is conducting research into myosin motors. These motor proteins are mini-machines that drive many vital processes in our cells, including force and ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

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Their work, published in Nature Communications, reveals a mechanism of interdependence of different forms of the cytoskeletal proteins actin and myosin, and their functions.