The following books and articles on Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster can be found at the West Virginia Archives and History Library. BOOKS. Cherniack, Martin. The Hawk's Nest Incident; America's Worst Industrial Disaster. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1986. 363.179 C521.
There are three different types of myofilaments: thick, thin, and elastic filaments. Thick filaments consist primarily of the protein myosin. Each thick filament is approximately 15 nm in diameter, and each is made of several hundred molecules of myosin. A myosin molecule is shaped like a golf club, with a tail formed of two intertwined chains and a double globular head projecting from it at an angle.
1 Thick filaments consist primarily of the protein myosin, held in place by titin filaments. 2  Myosin is responsible for force generation. 3  It is composed of a globular head with both ATP and actin binding sites, and a long tail involved in its polymerization into myosin filaments. Thin filaments consist primarily of the protein actin, coiled with nebulin filaments. 2  Actin, when polymerized into filaments, forms the ladder along which the myosin filaments climb to generate motion. 3  Thick filaments consist primarily of the protein myosin, held in place by titin filaments.