Biology 2382B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Myosin Head, Kinesin, Immunoglobulin Light Chain

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Myosin is actin"s motor protein: similar to kinesin. Myosin: head domain binds to cytoskeleton always head domain binds to the actin filament, with kinesin and dynein too. It is a + end directed motor protein: the tail (or stem or whatever) is responsible to binding to cargo, again, with kinesin and dynein as well. Myosin has a heavy chain, which contains the head domain and the tail domain. The myosin light chain has a different function than kinesin: the light chain binds to the neck region of the myosin molecule, close to the head, the light chains regulate how the myosin bends/moves. Myosin moves towards the + end, and the light chains are regulating how fast it moves and how big of a step it takes: thus, the light chains are regulatory. Can undergo many different enzymatic cleavages: taking myosin heavy chains and digesting it with various enzymes look at what happens.

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