Tropomyosin
Tropomiosina
- Date
- 1946 · confidence high
- Place
- Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Kenneth Bailey
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Fibrous, coiled-coil helical protein identified by Kenneth Bailey in muscle, which regulates muscle contraction together with troponin and also occurs in fungal cell walls.
What it led to
- Understanding of the regulatory mechanism of muscle contraction
- Foundation for the later discovery of troponin
- Studies on tropomyosin isoforms in the non-muscle cytoskeleton