Actin-Monomer-Binding Proteins
The actin cytoskeleton plays a central role in many cellular processes including cell motility, cytokinesis, endocytosis and phagocytosis. The structure and dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton is regulated by a large number of proteins that interact with m
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Actin-Monomer-Binding Proteins
Pekka Lappalainen, Ph.D. Institute of Biotechnology University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland
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ACTIN-MONOMER-BlNDING PROTEINS Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit Landes Bioscience / Eurekah.com Springer Science+Business Media, LLC ISBN: 978-0-387-46405-3
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About the Editor... PROFESSOR PEKKA LAPPALAINEN is a research director at Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland. His main research interests include the small actin binding proteins twinfilin, Srv2/CAP and ADF/cofilin as well as the analysis of the roles of the actin cytoskeleton during various cellular and developmental processes. He serves on the editorial board of Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton and is a member of Faculty of 1000 cytoskeleton section. Pekka Lappalainen carried out his PhD-thesis work at EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany and did his post-doc at University of California, Berkeley.
CONTENTS Preface 1. How Actin Assembly Is Modulated at Filament Barbed Ends in Motile Processes Marie-France Carlier, Dominique
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