Cell Scaffolding This video shows one of a cell ’s essential structural components: actin cross -linking proteins. These proteins are important for organizing actin filaments in a cell – allowing it ...

In all eukaryotic cells, actin protein assembles to form a network of thin filaments that spread throughout the cell. The actin filaments give the cell its structure, enable the cell to move, and ...

Prof. Michael Murrell's group (lead author Zachary Gao Sun, graduate student in physics) in collaboration with Prof. Garegin Papoian's group from the University of Maryland at College Park has found ...

image: Super-resolution microscopy image of a cell. With fluorescent markers the prometastatic factor ANGPTL4 is labelled in magenta, the molecule FMNL2 in green, and the actin cell skeleton in white.

Not only have researchers identified how a common cellular protein affects aging, but they’ve tweaked the genes that produce it in fruit flies, extending healthy lifespan by 25% to 30%. The ...

When a cell hits an obstacle, the actin filaments driving the membrane protrusion must reorganize and create additional branches to resist the pressure. Dan Fletcher at the University of California, ...