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Each actin (thin) filament is made of two 'F' (filamentous) actins (a) wound to each other. Each 'F' actin is a polymer of (b) actins. Two filaments of another protein (c) ____also run close to the 'F' actins throughout its length. A complex protein (d) ____ is distributed at regular intervals on the tropomyosin. in the resting state a submit of troponin masks the active binding sites for (e)____ on the (c)____filaments.

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