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In an animal that has only a single myosin heavy chain (MHC) gene, striated skeletal muscle contains an isoform of MHC that is not found in smooth muscle, which contains a different isoform not found in skeletal muscle. (Isoforms: very similar proteins with the same general function but some difference in amino acid sequence.)  List three different mechanisms that could account for this pattern of myosin expression.
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1) alternative promoters used in the two tissues, leading to MHCs with different N-termini. 

2) alternative internal splicing, leading to differences in the exons that end up in processed mRNAs.

3) alternative poly-A addition sites that lead to MHCs with different C-termini.

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