myosin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic tissues, allowing mobility in muscles.
An albuminous body present in dead muscle formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis.

/ˈmaɪ.oʊsɪn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-myosin.wav

myosin myosins

From myo- (“relating to muscle”), and Ancient Greek μυός (muós), genitive of μῦς (mûs, “muscle”) + -in.

actin

actomyosin cardiomyosin isomyosin meromyosin myosinic myosinogen paramyosin tropomyosin

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