Numerous cell surface receptors modulate cellular motile functions through the control of dynamic actin polymerization. The status of cytoplasmic actin is sensed and communicated to the nucleus in ...

Actin filaments are the smallest type, with a diameter of only about 6 nm, and they are made of a protein called actin. Intermediate filaments, as their name suggests, are mid-sized, with a ...

Formins are made of two identical parts (red, orange) that encircle the actin (grey) filament in a ring-like conformation. “Our discovery allows us to interpret decades of biochemical studies on ...

Actin is a highly abundant protein that controls the shape and movement of all our cells. Actin achieves this by assembling into filaments, one actin molecule at a time. The proteins of the formin ...

The actin cytoskeleton provides force for a large number of cellular processes, such as motility, morphogenesis, cell division, endocytosis, and phagocytosis. The organization and dynamics of actin ...

A paper recently published in the journal International Journal of Molecular Sciences investigated the impact of cadmium selenide/zinc sulfide (CdSe/ZnS) quantum dots (QDs) on in vitro actin dynamics.