Definition of Meromyosin
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Medical Definition of Meromyosin
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Fragments of myosin formed by trypsin digestion. Heavy meromyosin (HMM) has the hinge region and ATPase activity, light meromyosin (LMM) is mostly _ helical and is the portion normally laterally associated with other LMM to form the thick filament itself.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meromyosin
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