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.
The filaments of myofibrils, myofilaments, consist of two types, thick and thin: 1  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. 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.