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MYL1

Myosin light chain 3, skeletal muscle isoform is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MYL1 gene.[1][2][3]

Myosin is a hexameric ATPase cellular motor protein. It is composed of two heavy chains, two nonphosphorylatable alkali light chains, and two phosphorylatable regulatory light chains. This gene encodes a myosin alkali light chain expressed in fast skeletal muscle. Two transcript variants have been identified for this gene.[3]

References

  1. Hailstones DL, Gunning PW (Mar 1990). “Characterization of human myosin light chains 1sa and 3nm: implications for isoform evolution and function”. Mol Cell Biol. 10 (3): 1095–104. PMC 360973. PMID 2304459.
  2. Cohen-Haguenauer O, Barton PJ, Nguyen VC, Serero S, Gross MS, Jegou-Foubert C, de Tand MF, Robert B, Buckingham M, Frezal J (Mar 1988). “Assignment of the human fast skeletal muscle myosin alkali light chains gene (MLC1F/MLC3F) to 2q 32.1-2qter”. Hum Genet. 78 (1): 65–70. doi:10.1007/BF00291237. PMID 3422212.
  3. 3.0 3.1 “Entrez Gene: MYL1 myosin, light chain 1, alkali; skeletal, fast”.

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