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mortem aging. ing at least a portion of the passive tension that is present in skeletal muscle cells. During development of the myofibril, titin is one of Titin the earliest proteins expressed, and it is Titin (aka connectin) is a megaprotein that is thought to act as a “molecular ruler” by pro- approximately 3 megadaltons in size. In viding a scaffolding or template for the addition to being the largest protein found in developing myofibril (Clark et al. 2002). mammalian tissues, it is also the third-most Due to the aforementioned roles of titin abundant. A single titin molecule is estimated in living cells, it is quite conceivable that 12 Chapter 1