Actin proteins group together to form a network of thin filaments that spread throughout a cell. This actin network is dynamic, meaning that the filaments can either grow or shrink to fit the ...

In all eukaryotic cells, actin proteins come together to form a network of thin filaments that spread throughout the cell. These filaments play a role in the cell’s structure and movement, its ...

The interaction of myosin and actin proteins is at the core of our current understanding of sarcomere shortening. How does this shortening happen? It has something to do with a sliding interaction ...

This DD-AcGPF1-actin fusion was only stable in the presence of Shield1 (Fig. 3). The ProteoTuner system makes it possible to change the amount of a protein of interest rapidly, so it is possible ...

Research led by Stanford Medicine has discovered that mutations in a protein-folding complex are linked to developmental ...

It also included a protein that Daniel Safer from Penn's Perelman School of Medicine—who has an extensive background with ...

The lifespan of a fruit fly, however, is typically about two months. Researchers have now used fruit flies to show that the buildup of a common structural protein found in most cell types, known as ...

a protein in your muscles called myosin binds to another protein called actin and drags it to shorten muscle fibres. Now imagine you start at the top: your muscles are already contracted and your ...

"Cortical instability drives periodic supracellular actin pattern formation in epithelial tubes ... "Rab9 and retromer regulate retrograde trafficking of luminal protein required for epithelial tube ...

His main research interests are to uncover the mechanisms by which actin and plasma membrane dynamics are regulated in cells. In his free time, Pekka enjoys various sports, music (playing guitar), ...