Many plant tissues contain the enzyme cytokinin oxidase, which cleaves the side chain from zeatin (both cis and trans), zeatin riboside, iP, and their N-glucosides, but not their O-glucoside derivatives

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When the Ca2+ levels drop:

Myosin LC is dephosphorylated by MLC phosphatase, causing muscle relaxation.

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Ca2+ dependence of vertebrate skeletal muscle contraction, depends on :

action potential

specialized accessory proteins Tropomyosin,

Troponin (T, I, and C)

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Myosin 

Actin-based motors powered by ATP hydrolysis.

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Myosins have 

Motor head domain

Lever-arm neck domain

Cargo-binding tail domain

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The first myosin discovered

Myosin II, was isolated from skeletal muscle.

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Three classes of myosins:

Myosin I

Myosin II

Myosin V