Guidance cues and signal transduction mechanisms acting at the nerve growth cone are fairly well understood, but the intracellular mechanisms operating to change the direction of axon outgrowth remain ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 38 (Sep. 22, 2009), pp. 16487-16492 (6 pages) Interkinetic nuclear migration (INM) is a hallmark of the ...

Myosin II is a biomolecular machine that is responsible for muscle contraction. Myosin II motors act cooperatively: during muscle contraction, multiple motors bind to a single actin filament and pull ...

Cells use the polymerization of actin alone to create some types of movement, but many other forms of movement require interplay between actin and an enzyme called ...