Actin polymerization dynamics at the leading edge

Actin-based cell motility plays crucial role throughout the lifetime of an organism. While the dendritic nucleation model explains the initiation and organization of the actin network in lamellipodia, two questions need to be answered. In this study, I reconstructed cellular motility in vitro to inv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hu, Xiaohua
Other Authors: Biology
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39940
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10152012-162223/