A Molecular Rivet for Long-Range Force Transmission - From Isolation to Global Connectivity
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore at the National University of Singapore have described, for the first time, how plastin, an actin-bundling protein, acts as a molecular rivet, providing global connectivity to the cortex underlying the plasma membrane of embryonic cells to facilitate polarisation and cell division.