There more thin filaments than thick filaments in smooth muscle. The ratio is of the thin to thick filaments in the smooth muscle is approximately 15:1.
Myosin
The thin filaments are actin, and the thick filaments are myosin. The filaments run parrel to one another along the length of the sarcomere.The dark bands that occur in the middle of the sarcomere are regions where the thick filaments and thin filaments overlap.
thick filaments and thin filaments
Interactions between actin and myosin filaments of the sarcomere are responsible for muscle contractions. The I bands contain only thin (actin) filaments, whereas the A bands contain thick (myosin) filaments.
I-Band
The three different types of myofilaments are thick filaments, thin filaments, and elastic filaments. Thick filaments are composed of myosin protein, thin filaments are primarily made of actin protein, and elastic filaments (also known as titin) provide elasticity and stability to the sarcomere.
This area is the A band of a sarcomere, which contains both thick myosin filaments and thin actin filaments. The overlapping of these filaments is essential for muscle contraction to occur through the sliding filament mechanism.
Myofibrils are made up of actin (thin filaments) and myosin (thick filaments).
thick and thin bands (lines) of filaments.
thick and thin bands (lines) of filaments.
A-band. It has actin (thin protein) and myosin (thick protein) overlapping within it