Research report 2013 - Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

The intrinsic pace of the actin cytoskeleton

Authors

Beta, Carsten

Departments
Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam und Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen
Summary
Actin-driven cell motility is a key process that governs many essential biological phenomena. Recently, it was demonstrated that an intrinsic clock governs actin dynamics and determines the timing of cellular responses to external chemical stimuli.

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