Edited by
Peter Gunning

2008

A recent review of one of my grant applications commented on the ‘rediscovery of tropomyosin’. I was tempted to write back in my rebuttal to the reviewer that I didn’t realise it had been lost. Uncharacteristic maturity prevailed and I resisted the temptation, but I was struck by the underlying observation that research on the structure and function of tropomyosin has been somewhat invisible, particularly in terms of the cytoskeleton isoforms.