Proper Pruning in Cells: How to keep the Cytoskeleton (hedge) tidy and branched (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology

Proper Pruning in Cells: How to keep the Cytoskeleton (hedge) tidy and branched

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Much like proper hedge pruning (left), capping (red) of old actin filaments (green) by the capping protein leads to the production (budding, blue) of new, branched actin filaments (right).

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology

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