Actin filament organization in the fish keratocyte lamellipodium.
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Actin filament organization in the fish keratocyte lamellipodium
From recent studies of locomoting fish keratocytes it was proposed that the dynamic turnover of actin filaments takes place by a nucleation-release mechanism, which predicts the existence of short (less than 0.5 microns) filaments throughout the lamellipodium (Theriot, J. A., and T. J. Mitchison. 1991. Nature (Lond.). 352:126-131). We have tested this model by investigating the structure of who...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0021-9525,1540-8140
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.129.5.1275