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ArticleMolecular biology of the cell2016

Actin-binding proteins: the long road to understanding the dynamic landscape of cellular actin networks.

Pekka Lappalainen

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Article in Molecular biology of the cell, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. A census of actin-associated proteins in humans.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
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  12. Envisioning a role for nuclear actin in prophase I spermatocytes.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
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  16. Histidine methyltransferase SETD3 methylates structurally diverse histidine mimics in actin.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2022
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  20. Regulation of Mitochondrial Function by the Actin Cytoskeleton.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Pekka LappalainenInstitute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland pekka.lappalainen@helsinki.fi.
University of Helsinki · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The actin cytoskeleton supports a vast number of cellular processes in nonmuscle cells. It is well established that the organization and dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton are controlled by a large array of actin-binding proteins. However, it was only 40 years ago that the first nonmuscle actin-binding protein, filamin, was identified and characterized. Filamin was shown to bind and cross-link actin filaments into higher-order structures and contribute to phagocytosis in macrophages. Subsequently many other nonmuscle actin-binding proteins were identified and characterized. These proteins regulate almost all steps of the actin filament assembly and disassembly cycles, as well as the arrangement of actin filaments into diverse three-dimensional structures. Although the individual biochemical activities of most actin-regulatory proteins are relatively well understood, knowledge of how these proteins function together in a common cytoplasm to control actin dynamics and architecture is only beginning to emerge. Furthermore, understanding how signaling pathways and mechanical cues control the activities of various actin-binding proteins in different cellular, developmental, and pathological processes will keep researchers busy for decades.

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Actin CytoskeletonActinsAnimalsCytoplasmCytoskeletonFilaminsMicrofilament ProteinsActinsFilaminsMicrofilament Proteins

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PMID27528696
PMCPMC4985253
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