Creating a niche in the cytoskeleton: Actin reorganization by a protein kinase
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Creating a niche in the cytoskeleton: Actin reorganization by a protein kinase.
O of the most apparent differences between normal cells and their malignantly transformed counterparts and between immature and fully differentiated cells is the shape of the cells (1). Cell morphology is controlled largely by the structure of the cytoskeleton, a system of three distinct types of filamentous polymers that assemble into networks and bundles of various kinds to link the cell inte...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.011601598