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- noun Plural form of
myosin .
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Examples
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Then why does no one call G proteins motors, despite the fact that they harness the energy from hydrolysis of a nucleoside triphosphate to cause a conformational change by the same mechanism seen in myosins and kinesins?
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Then why does no one call G proteins motors, despite the fact that they harness the energy from hydrolysis of a nucleoside triphosphate to cause a conformational change by the same mechanism seen in myosins and kinesins?
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For example, we call myosins, kinesins, and dyneins "molecular motors," a lay person thinks of something spinning.
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If you claim myosins, kinesins, and dyneins came about through a selected mutation process the argument by analogy inherent to the claim is that a stochastic process observed to allow beak adaptation in finches and the many observed examples of unicellular adaptation is capable of generating the examples cited.
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For example, we call myosins, kinesins, and dyneins "molecular motors," a lay person thinks of something spinning.
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That metaphor doesn't even come close to the accuracy of our use of "walking" to describe the mechanisms of kinesin and the 2-headed unconventional myosins.
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For example, we call myosins, kinesins, and dyneins "molecular motors," a lay person thinks of something spinning.
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Are you trying to claim that the cores of myosins, kinesins, and G proteins don't have the same structure?
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Are you trying to claim that the cores of myosins, kinesins, and G proteins don't have the same structure?
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Yes, and we still call dyneins, kinesins, and myosins "motors" despite the fact that none of them spin.
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