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paramyosin logo #21003(from the article `muscle`) ...smooth, except for cardiac muscle, which is involuntary but striated. Obliquely striated muscle is found only in some invertebrate groups (the ...
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paramyosin

paramyosin logo #20973<protein> Protein (200-220 kD) that forms a core in the thick filaments of invertebrate muscles. ... The molecule is rather like the rod part of myosin and has a two chain coiled coil _ helical structure, 130 nm by 2 nm. Paramyosin is present in particularly high concentration in the catch muscle of bivalve molluscs, where it forms the almost...
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