(A) In a cell, motility is initiated by an actin ... mediated by stress fibers. (D) Then, retraction fibers pull the rear of the cell forward. Dynamic networks of protein filaments give shape ...

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 ...

Microtubules are the largest type of filament, with a diameter of about 25 nanometers (nm), and they are composed of a protein called tubulin. Actin filaments are the smallest type, with a ...

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2418624122 "Surprisingly, we also found that the droplets coat the actin filaments in the cell in a physical process called wetting and protect the actin filaments from ...

Now, as a postdoctoral researcher in Pekka Lappalainen’s lab, I will focus on LIM domain proteins and their function in stress fiber dynamics ... the self-organization of actin cytoskeleton into ...