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.