The cytoskeleton, cellular motility and the reductionist agenda

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Pollard, TD [1 ]
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[1] Yale Univ, Dept Mol Cellular & Dev Biol, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
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10.1038/nature01598
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Eukaryotic cells depend on cytoskeletal polymers and molecular motors to establish their asymmetrical shapes, to transport intracellular constituents and to drive their motility. Cell biologists are using diverse experimental approaches to understand the molecular basis of cellular movements and to explain why defects in the component proteins cause disease. Much of the molecular machinery for motility evolved in early eukaryotes, so a limited set of general principles can explain the motility of most cells.
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