Formins, actin-nucleating proteins that stimulate the de novo polymerization of actin filaments, are important for diverse cellular and developmental processes, especially those dependent on polarity ...

Chromatin bridges are strands of incompletely segregated DNA connecting the anaphase poles or daughter nuclei. If unresolved, chromatin bridges can break in cytokinesis leading to micronuclei ...

The dynamic processes that occur during the growth of actin, via polymerization, and the breakdown of actin both play significant roles in cellular mechanisms like migration and adhesion. Due to the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recessive mutant gene c in ambystoma mexicanum embryos causes a failure of the heart to function even though initial heart development appears ...

Cancer cells have evolved multiple escape strategies to circumvent the body's immune defenses such as the attack by Natural Killer (NK) cells which normally swiftly kill abnormal cells by releasing ...

1 Department of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain 2 Basic Cardiovascular Research Section, Department of Morphological Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, ...

Wound repair is an essential component of life. Without it any minor cuts or scrapes could be extremely damaging or even lethal. Paper cuts are bad enough already without having to consider them ...

Cell migration depends on structures called focal adhesions that connect a cell to the surrounding extracellular matrix. Microtubules—long, thin polymers found in and around cells—help disassemble ...