Actin filaments - protein structures critical to living movement from single cells to animals - have long been known to have polarity associated with their physical characteristics, with growing ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

Researchers at Kanazawa University report in eLife on deciphering the actin structure-dependent preferential cooperative binding of cofilin. The actin filament is a double-stranded helical structure ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

When an actin filament bends during cell movement, older actin deforms differently than newer actin, allowing regulatory proteins to tell the two states apart. Inside the leading edge of a crawling ...

An electron microscopy study revealed key details of actin filaments, which are essential structural elements of cells and muscles. Actin filaments -- protein structures critical to living movement ...

The immune system provides constant surveillance for the body, aiming to spot and eliminate disease-causing microbes or ...

It was 1975, and Thomas Stossel and John Hartwig were baffled by the "ugly precipitate" in the bottom of their test tube. Eager young biologists, the Harvard friends had set out to solve the mystery ...

Researchers at Dresden University of Technology reveal that early zebrafish embryos divide without a closed actin ring.