Actin disassembly clock determines shape and speed of lamellipodial fragments

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 51, 2011, Pages 20394-20399

  Ofer, Noa ^a   Mogilner, Alexander ^b   Keren, Kinneret ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell motility; Keratocyte fragments

Indexed keywords

ACTIN DISASSEMBLY CLOCK; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SHAPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DENSITY; GEOMETRY; LAMELLIPODIUM; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOVEMENT; CICHLIDS; CYTOSKELETON; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FISHES; KERATINOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOSINS; PSEUDOPODIA;

EID: 84855479406     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105333108     Document Type: Article

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