06 October 2024
Power of 10
Cells move – which they do during development, wound healing and cancer spread – by extending protrusions called filopodia powered by motor proteins such as myosin. This study describes a novel way of analysing the quantity, distribution and dynamics of myosin 10 – the accumulation process, the traffic jams and subsequent emptying – at the tips of these narrow extensions in cell membranes
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Julia Shangguan and Ronald S Rock
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in eLife (reviewed preprint), September 2024
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