Researchers have characterised changes in the structure of motor proteins, called myosins, and energy consumption that occur during hibernation, highlighting key differences in large and small ...

image: This graphic shows the proposed binding site for omecamtiv mecarbil to cardiac myosin S1. The ribbon diagram to the left shows the major features of the myosin S1 head. A spacefilling model of ...

A human heart might contract some three billion times over a lifetime, and each one of those contractions is driven by a protein called myosin. One of three classes of so-called motor proteins in our ...