title: Elastic filaments and giant proteins in muscle.
abstract: Striated muscle is now known to contain a third major class of filaments, additional to the thick and thin filaments. The presence of such extra filaments has seemed likely for many years, but details of their location, structure, and composition are only now becoming clear. They are composed of massively large proteins and, in contrast to thick and thin filaments, they are elastic.
authors.affiliation: Muscle and Collagen Research Group, Bristol University, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trinick
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D064211:Connectin; D004547:Elastic Tissue / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009124:Muscle Proteins / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D011494:Protein Kinases
chemical_list: D064211:Connectin; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D011494:Protein Kinases