Actin branching in the initiation and maintenance of lamellipodia

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 125, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2775-2785

  Vinzenz, Marlene ^a   Nemethova, Maria ^a   Schur, Florian ^a   Mueller, Jan ^a   Narita, Akihiro ^b   Urban, Edit ^a   Winkler, Christoph ^c   Schmeiser, Christian ^c,d   Koestler, Stefan A ^e   Rottner, Klemens ^e   Resch, Guenter P ^a   Maeda, Yuichiro ^b   Small, J Victor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JOHANN RADON INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin; Arp2 3 complex; Cytoskeleton; Electron tomography; Lamellipodia

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; RAC PROTEIN;

ACTIN CAPPING; ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; LAMELLIPODIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTINS; ANIMALS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PSEUDOPODIA; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84859420307     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.107623     Document Type: Article

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