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.
Myosin is a major component of thick filaments and most myosin molecules are composed of a head, neck, and tail domain; the myosin head binds to thin filamentous actin, and uses ATP hydrolysis to generate force and walk along the thin filament.