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Describe the role of specific proteins involved in the muscle contraction process.

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Describe the role of specific proteins involved in themuscle contraction process.

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Muscles contraction occurs by the action of two proteins actin and myosin Myosin is a motor protein which produces the force in a muscle contraction as the stroke It consists of a head and a tail region The tails of three hundred myosin molecules form the shaft of the thick filament The myosin heads of these molecules project outward toward the thin filaments Actin is a spherical    See Answer
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