Myofibril, the Glossary
A myofibril (also known as a muscle fibril or sarcostyle) is a basic rod-like organelle of a muscle cell.[1]
Table of Contents
30 relations: Actin, Angstrom, Anisotropy, Cardiac muscle, Embryo, Iridescence, Isotropy, Micrometre, Motor protein, Muscle, Muscle cell, Muscle contraction, Myofilament, Myogenesis, Myosin, Myosin head, Nebulin, Organelle, Polarization (waves), Primal cut, Protein complex, Sarcolemma, Sarcomere, Skeletal muscle, Sliding filament theory, Striated muscle tissue, Structural coloration, T-tubule, Titin, Troponin.
- Eukaryotic cell anatomy
Actin
Actin is a family of globular multi-functional proteins that form microfilaments in the cytoskeleton, and the thin filaments in muscle fibrils.
Angstrom
The angstrom is a unit of length equal to m; that is, one ten-billionth of a metre, a hundred-millionth of a centimetre, 0.1 nanometre, or 100 picometres.
Anisotropy
Anisotropy is the structural property of non-uniformity in different directions, as opposed to isotropy.
Cardiac muscle
Cardiac muscle (also called heart muscle or myocardium) is one of three types of vertebrate muscle tissues, with the other two being skeletal muscle and smooth muscle.
See Myofibril and Cardiac muscle
Embryo
An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism.
Iridescence
Iridescence (also known as goniochromism) is the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear gradually to change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes.
Isotropy
In physics and geometry, isotropy is uniformity in all orientations.
Micrometre
The micrometre (Commonwealth English) as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American English), also commonly known by the non-SI term micron, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equalling (SI standard prefix "micro-".
Motor protein
Motor proteins are a class of molecular motors that can move along the cytoskeleton of cells.
See Myofibril and Motor protein
Muscle
Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue.
Muscle cell
A muscle cell, also known as a myocyte, is a mature contractile cell in the muscle of an animal.
Muscle contraction
Muscle contraction is the activation of tension-generating sites within muscle cells.
See Myofibril and Muscle contraction
Myofilament
Myofilaments are the three protein filaments of myofibrils in muscle cells.
Myogenesis
Myogenesis is the formation of skeletal muscular tissue, particularly during embryonic development.
Myosin
Myosins are a superfamily of motor proteins best known for their roles in muscle contraction and in a wide range of other motility processes in eukaryotes.
Myosin head
The myosin head is the part of the thick myofilament made up of myosin that acts in muscle contraction, by sliding over thin myofilaments of actin.
Nebulin
Nebulin is an actin-binding protein which is localized to the thin filament of the sarcomeres in skeletal muscle.
Organelle
In cell biology, an organelle is a specialized subunit, usually within a cell, that has a specific function. Myofibril and organelle are organelles.
Polarization (waves)
italics (also italics) is a property of transverse waves which specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations.
See Myofibril and Polarization (waves)
Primal cut
A primal cut or cut of meat is a piece of meat initially separated from the carcass of an animal during butchering.
Protein complex
A protein complex or multiprotein complex is a group of two or more associated polypeptide chains. Myofibril and protein complex are protein complexes.
See Myofibril and Protein complex
Sarcolemma
The sarcolemma (sarco (from sarx) from Greek; flesh, and lemma from Greek; sheath), also called the myolemma, is the cell membrane surrounding a skeletal muscle fibre or a cardiomyocyte.
Sarcomere
A sarcomere (Greek σάρξ sarx "flesh", μέρος meros "part") is the smallest functional unit of striated muscle tissue.
Skeletal muscle
Skeletal muscle (commonly referred to as muscle) is one of the three types of vertebrate muscle tissue, the other being cardiac muscle and smooth muscle.
See Myofibril and Skeletal muscle
Sliding filament theory
The sliding filament theory explains the mechanism of muscle contraction based on muscle proteins that slide past each other to generate movement.
See Myofibril and Sliding filament theory
Striated muscle tissue
Striated muscle tissue is a muscle tissue that features repeating functional units called sarcomeres.
See Myofibril and Striated muscle tissue
Structural coloration
Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light instead of pigments, although some structural coloration occurs in combination with pigments.
See Myofibril and Structural coloration
T-tubule
T-tubules (transverse tubules) are extensions of the cell membrane that penetrate into the center of skeletal and cardiac muscle cells.
Titin
Titin (contraction for Titan protein) (also called connectin) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TTN gene.
Troponin
s2cid.
See also
Eukaryotic cell anatomy
- Axoneme
- Caveolae
- Cell nucleus
- Cellular compartment
- Cilium
- Cytoskeleton
- Endoplasmic reticulum
- Exopher
- Extracellular vesicle
- Kappa organism
- Lysosome
- Mastigoneme
- Mitochondria
- Mitosome
- Myofibril
- Retromer
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myofibril
Also known as Actinomyocin, Muscle fibril, Muscle fibrils, Myofibrillar, Myofibrils, Myofybril, Sarcostyle, Sarcostyles, Z - lines, Z lines.