Human skeletal muscle myosin purified from myofibrils.
Alternative Names:
Myosin-7, Myosin heavy chain 7, Myosin heavy chain slow isoform, MyHC-slow, Myosin heavy chain, cardiac muscle beta isoform, MyHC-beta, Myh7
Myosin is composed of 2 heavy chains of about 200,000 daltons each and 4 light chains of about 20,000 daltons each. Skeletal Myosin(slow),, also known as light chain 3(MYL3), mapped to 3p. Fodor et al.(1989) found that the MYL3 gene has 7 exons, the last
