The actin cytoskeleton provides force ... to Cell and Tis­sue Dynamics and Biomolecular structure and function Research Programs. Pekka is a Principal Investigator/Group Leader at BI and a Professor ...

Although a crystal structure of filamentous actin ... of ATP to the rearward head to release it from the actin filament. Single-molecule analysis of myosin V (Ref. 37) coupled to total internal ...

The actin cytoskeleton provides force for dynamic cellular processes, such as motility, morphogenesis, cell division, endocytosis, and phagocytosis. The organization and dynamics of actin filaments ...

How does actin-binding accelerate nucleotide exchange? All these questions now seem much more amenable than they have been in the past — now that this latest structure has hit the data bank.

The actin filament exists as a structure of the fixed length and bears the muscle contraction and the adjustment on a muscular inside. The circulation and the molecule movements of the polymerization ...

Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells, which form a barrier that defends the body from the outside ...

Actin achieves this by assembling into filaments, one actin molecule at a time ... difficult to obtain enough filament ends ...

Actin achieves this by assembling into filaments, one actin molecule at a time ... difficult to obtain enough filament ends for detailed structure determination. The MPI scientists analyzed ...

Our skin and mucous membranes protect us like vigilant sentinels against the onslaught of harmful pathogens. This extraordinary defense owes its strength to epithelial cells—specialized tissues woven ...

A recently identified bacterial protein structure is contributing to the design of novel anticancer drug delivery systems.

Molecular motors share a common structural organization, consisting of a motor domain, a neck region, and a tail domain. The motor domain contains the catalytic site for ATP hydrolysis and the actin ...