Formins: Taking a ride on the barbed end

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作者
Bear, JE [1 ]
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[1] MIT, Dept Biol, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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10.1016/S1534-5807(02)00230-7
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Q2 [细胞生物学];
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071009 ; 090102 ;
摘要
Formins are an ancient family of cell polarity regulators. Until recently, they were implicated in actin cytoskeleton regulation without a specific molecular function. That may all have changed with the publication of new results from several labs.
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