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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Functional integrity of the contractile actin cortex is safeguarded by multiple Diaphanous-related formins.

Christof Litschko, Stefan Brühmann, Agnes Csiszár, Till Stephan, Vanessa Dimchev, Julia Damiano-Guercio, Alexander Junemann, Sarah Körber, Moritz Winterhoff, Benjamin Nordholz and 5 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Gradients of PI(4,5)PFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Christof LitschkoInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Stefan BrühmannInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Agnes CsiszárInstitute of Complex Systems, ICS-7: Biomechanics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
Till StephanInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Vanessa DimchevDivision of Molecular Cell Biology, Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Julia Damiano-GuercioInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Alexander JunemannInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Sarah KörberInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Moritz WinterhoffInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Benjamin NordholzInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Nagendran RamalingamAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Michelle PeckhamAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-3754-2028
Klemens RottnerDivision of Molecular Cell Biology, Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Rudolf MerkelInstitute of Complex Systems, ICS-7: Biomechanics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
Jan FaixInstitute for Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany; faix.Jan@mh-hannover.de.ORCID 0000-0003-1803-9192
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover · DEForschungszentrum Jülich · DEHelmholtz Centre for Infection Research · DEBrigham and Women's Hospital · USUniversity of Leeds · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 094231/Z/10/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The contractile actin cortex is a thin layer of filamentous actin, myosin motors, and regulatory proteins beneath the plasma membrane crucial to cytokinesis, morphogenesis, and cell migration. However, the factors regulating actin assembly in this compartment are not well understood. Using the

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Actin CytoskeletonActinsAnimalsCarrier ProteinsCell MovementCell PolarityContractile ProteinsCRISPR-Cas SystemsDictyosteliumDisease Models, AnimalForminsHumansMelanoma, ExperimentalMiceMicroscopy, ElectronMuscle ContractionActinsCarrier ProteinsContractile ProteinsDiap1 protein, mouseForminsrhoA GTP-Binding Proteinactin cortexcell migrationcytokinesisforminRhoGTPase

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PMID30808751
PMCPMC6397521
OpenAlexW2911335858

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