Browsing by Subject "cytoskeleton"
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Cytoskeletal Networks Driving Presynaptic Plasticity
(2021)Synapses – the delicate connections between our neurons – adjust and refine their strength to shape our brains, our thoughts, and our memories. Proteomic and genetic techniques have revealed that this process, known as synaptic ... -
Distinct Functions and Regulation of Nonmuscle Myosin II Isoforms a and B in Cell Motility
(2008-04-23)The ability of cells to migrate is of fundamental importance to a diverse array of biological processes, both physiological and pathological, such as development, the immune response and cancer cell metastasis, to name a ... -
Genetic, Genomic, and Biophysical Investigations on the Robust Nature of Morphogenesis: A Study of Drosophila Dorsal Closure
(2020)Cell sheet morphogenesis is essential for metazoan development and homeostasis, contributing to key developmental stages such as neural tube closure as well as tissue maintenance through wound healing. Dorsal closure, a ... -
Novel Roles for Desmosomes in Cytoskeletal Organization
(2011)Microtubules often adopt non-centrosomal arrays in differentiated tissues, where they are important for providing structure to the cell and maintaining polarity. Although the formation and organization of centrosomal arrays ... -
The Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplast division protein FtsZ1 counterbalances FtsZ2 filament stability in vitro.
(The Journal of biological chemistry, 2021-04)Bacterial cell and chloroplast division are driven by a contractile "Z ring" composed of the tubulin-like cytoskeletal GTPase FtsZ. Unlike bacterial Z rings, which consist of a single FtsZ, the chloroplast Z ring in plants ... -
The cell division protein MinD from Pseudomonas aeruginosa dominates the assembly of the MinC-MinD copolymers.
(The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018-04-02)Cell division of rod-shaped bacteria requires the Z ring, a ring of FtsZ filaments associated with the inner-membrane wall. The MinCDE proteins help localize the Z ring to the center of the Escherichia coli cell. MinC, which ... -
The Chloroplast Tubulin Homologs FtsZA and FtsZB from the Red Alga Galdieria sulphuraria Co-assemble into Dynamic Filaments.
(J Biol Chem, 2017-02-07)FtsZ is a homolog of eukaryotic tubulin and is present in almost all bacteria and many archaea, where it is the major cytoskeletal protein in the Z ring, required for cell division. Unlike some other cell organelles ...
