Titanic protein gives muscles structure and bounce
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Sigfried Labeit and Bernhard Kolmerer have sequenced the muscle protein titin, the largest known protein with a molecular weight around 3 million. The sequence included a previously unknown protein motif, which may help explain titin's role in springing back muscles that have been stretched.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
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Social status sculpts activity of crayfish neurons
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Research on crayfish indicates that changes in the animal's social status causes changes in its neural circuitry and in its behavior. A neuron in dominant crayfish fires in response to serotonin while the same neuron is suppressed by serotonin in subordinate crayfish.
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Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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