Our skin and mucous membranes protect us like vigilant sentinels against the onslaught of harmful pathogens. This extraordinary defense owes its strength to epithelial cells—specialized tissues woven ...

A HeLa cell can range from 20 micrometers to 40 micrometers across, or roughly a quarter to half the width of a human hair, while actin filaments are tiny – only about 7 nanometers wide, or roughly 10 ...

A multi-modal single-cell and spatial expression map of metastatic breast cancer biopsies ... red), myoepithelial and fibroblasts (Smooth Muscle Actin, white), and immune cells (CD45, green ...

The circulation and the molecule movements of the polymerization and the escape polymerization of the actin drive the cell movement in a general cell, and a lot of cellular functions are borne. It is ...

“An unmet actin requirement explains the mitotic inhibition of clathrin-mediated endocytosis,” eLife, 3:e00829, 2014. For decades, scientists observed clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME)—the process ...

Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This barrier tissue performs its function thanks to ...

(A) In a cell, motility is initiated by an actin-dependent protrusion of the cell’s leading edge, which is composed of armlike structures called lamellipodia and filopodia. These protrusive ...

The ‘Actin-based molecular machines’ group of Academy Professor Pekka Lappalainen at Institute of Biotechnology is now inviting applications for post-doctoral researcher cell biology, biochemistry, or ...