Science news articles about 'protein actin'

... : This complex recruits the second protein complex, which in turn recruits the protein actin. Filaments of actin from this site bring the transport machinery necessary for new cell membrane to extend ...

... issue of the Journal of Cell Biology. The contraction machinery protein, actin, exists in different forms in the adult heart and skeletal muscles. The heart form, ACTC, is also ...

... gap, called amnioserosa cells, a cable of the protein actin which runs around the gap, and the epithelial ... Jerome Solon in Brunner's group discovered that the actin cable doesn't act as a drawstring, ...