Actin is a family of globular multi-functional proteins that form microfilaments in the cytoskeleton, and the thin filaments in muscle fibrils. It is...
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Microfilament (redirect from Actin filament)
Microfilaments, also called actin filaments, are protein filaments in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells that form part of the cytoskeleton. They are primarily...
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Actin beta (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee abbreviation ACTB/ACTB) is one of six different actin isoforms which have been identified in humans. This...
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Smooth muscle (section Actin)
alpha-actin and gamma-actin. Smooth muscle alpha-actin is the predominant isoform within smooth muscle. There is also a lot of actin (mainly beta-actin) that...
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Pollen tube (section Role of actin cytoskeleton)
nucleates actin filament assembly of the longitudinal actin cables located in the shank region of the pollen tube. More specifically, AtFH3 uses the actin/profilin...
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Thymosin beta-4 (section Actin binding)
for monomeric actin as represented in the following reaction: F-actin ↔ G-actin + Thymosin β4 ↔ G-actin/Thymosin β4 Release of G-actin monomers from thymosin...
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Actin remodeling is a biochemical process in cells. In the actin remodeling of neurons, the protein actin is part of the process to change the shape and...
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protein of microfilaments are actin. The G-actin monomer combines to form a polymer which continues to form the microfilament (actin filament). These subunits...
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filamentous polymers of the protein actin. A polymer of a second protein, tropomyosin, is an integral part of most actin filaments in animals. Tropomyosins...
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Actin remodeling is the biochemical process that allows for the dynamic alterations of cellular organization. The remodeling of actin filaments occurs...
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Ordinary Average Guy (redirect from I'm Actin' Different)
Joe Vitale, Walsh 4:58 6. "Look at Us Now" Jamison, Walsh 4:55 7. "I'm Actin' Different" 4:31 8. "Up All Night" Vitale, Walsh 3:54 9. "You Might Need...
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filaments. Thin filaments consist primarily of the protein actin, coiled with nebulin filaments. Actin, when polymerized into filaments, forms the "ladder"...
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muscle movement. Myosin can only bind to actin when the binding sites on actin are exposed by calcium ions. Actin molecules are bound to the Z-line, which...
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ACTA2 (redirect from Α-smooth muscle actin)
ACTA2 (actin alpha 2) is an actin protein with several aliases including alpha-actin, alpha-actin-2, aortic smooth muscle or alpha smooth muscle actin (α-SMA...
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adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP is required to cause separation of the actin-myosin cross-bridges during relaxation of muscle. When oxygen is no longer...
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An actin nucleation core is a protein trimer with three actin monomers. It is called a nucleation core because it leads to the energetically favorable...
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or transport materials. The motor structures are microfilaments of actin and actin-binding proteins, including α-actinin, fimbrin, and filamin are present...
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Arp2/3 complex (redirect from Actin-related protein 2-3 complex)
Arp2/3 complex (Actin Related Protein 2/3 complex) is a seven-subunit protein complex that plays a major role in the regulation of the actin cytoskeleton...
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it binds to actin in thin myofilaments to hold the actin-tropomyosin complex in place. Troponin I prevents myosin from binding to actin in relaxed muscle...
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bands contain only actin-containing thin filaments. The thin filaments are placed between 2 myosin filaments and contain only the actin filaments of neighboring...
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Actin-binding proteins (also known as ABPs) are proteins that bind to actin. This may mean ability to bind actin monomers, or polymers, or both. Many actin-binding...
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Like..? (redirect from Actin a Smoochie)
"Gangsta Boo" puts a "drill spin" on Diddy's I Need a Girl (Part Two). "Actin a Smoochie" is "Jersey club rendition" of Tierra Whack's "Cutting Onions"...
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Cell cortex (redirect from Actin cortex)
The cell cortex, also known as the actin cortex, cortical cytoskeleton or actomyosin cortex, is a specialized layer of cytoplasmic proteins on the inner...
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Actin, alpha skeletal muscle is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ACTA1 gene. Actin alpha 1 which is expressed in skeletal muscle is one of six...
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Destrin (redirect from Actin depolymerizing factor)
rate of actin in vivo. This gene encodes the actin depolymerizing protein that severs actin filaments (F-actin) and binds to actin monomers (G-actin). Two...
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Myosin ATPase (redirect from ATP phosphohydrolase (actin-translocating))
ATPase (EC 3.6.4.1) is an enzyme with systematic name ATP phosphohydrolase (actin-translocating). This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction: ATP...
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (redirect from Actin. Res. Q.)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States...
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Amoeboid movement (section Actin-driven motility)
liquid sol state. Cytoplasm consist largely of actin and actin is regulated by actin-binding protein. Actin binding proteins are in turn regulated by calcium...
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of thin filaments is a chain formed by helical coiling of two strands of actin, and thick filaments dominantly consist of chains of the motor-protein myosin...
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A.K.A. (album) (redirect from Actin' Like That)
A.K.A. (an acronym for Also Known As) is the eighth studio album by American singer Jennifer Lopez. It was released on June 13, 2014, by Capitol Records...
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