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Kavitha Thirumurugan
Researcher at VIT University
Publications - 49
Citations - 1909
Kavitha Thirumurugan is an academic researcher from VIT University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Myosin & Adipogenesis. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 43 publications receiving 1631 citations. Previous affiliations of Kavitha Thirumurugan include University of Leeds.
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Load-dependent mechanism of nonmuscle myosin 2
TL;DR: It is found that human nonmuscle myosins 2A and 2B show marked load-dependent changes in kinetics of ADP release but not in nucleotide binding, which provides a basis for energy-efficient tension maintenance without obstructing cellular contractility driven by other motors such as smooth muscle myosin.
Antimicrobial activity and phytochemical analysis of selected Indian folk medicinal plants
TL;DR: The results provide justification for the use of the plants in folk medicine for the treatment of various bacterial and fungal infections and antibacterial activity but not antifungal activity against any of the fungi used.
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The cargo-binding domain regulates structure and activity of myosin 5
TL;DR: Motility assays reveal that at nanomolar calcium levels heavy meromyosin moves robustly on actin filaments whereas few myosins bind or move, and results combine to show that with no cargo, the GTDs bind in an intramolecular manner to the motor domains, producing an inhibited and compact structure.
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Regulated Conformation of Myosin V
Fei Wang,Kavitha Thirumurugan,Walter F. Stafford,John A. Hammer,Peter J. Knight,James R. Sellers +5 more
TL;DR: Electron microscopy reveals that interaction between the motor and cargo binding domains may be a general mechanism for shutting down motor protein activity and thereby regulating the active movement of vesicles in cells.
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The predicted coiled-coil domain of myosin 10 forms a novel elongated domain that lengthens the head.
Peter J. Knight,Kavitha Thirumurugan,Yuhui Xu,Fei Wang,Arnout P. Kalverda,Walter F. Stafford,James R. Sellers,Michelle Peckham +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the predicted coiled coil of myosin 10 formed a novel elongated structure in which the proximal region is a SAH domain and the distal region is an unknown extended structure that dimerizes only at its end.