Study unravels the mysteries of actin filament polarity Date: June 8, 2023 Source: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Summary: An electron microscopy study revealed key details of actin ...

The dynamics of actin filaments are governed largely by the "treadmilling" process, through which individual actin proteins are shed from one filament end, known as the pointed end, and added at ...

Figure: This is a visualization of myosin II filament stacks (yellow) with cross-linking protein alpha-actinin-1 (blue) in fibroblast cells using structured illumination microscopy. Myosin II ...