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ReviewAnnual review of cell and developmental biology2020

F-Actin Cytoskeleton Network Self-Organization Through Competition and Cooperation.

Rachel S Kadzik, Kaitlin E Homa, David R Kovar

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Review in Annual review of cell and developmental biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Rachel S KadzikDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA; email: homak@uchicago.edu, drkovar@uchicago.edu.
Kaitlin E HomaDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA; email: homak@uchicago.edu, drkovar@uchicago.edu.
David R KovarDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA; email: homak@uchicago.edu, drkovar@uchicago.edu.

Funding

Mechanisms of Formin-Mediated Actin Filament Assembly - Renewal 01 - ResubmissionR01GM079265 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI KOVAR, DAVID R · 2007 to 2023
$4.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079265
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many fundamental cellular processes such as division, polarization, endocytosis, and motility require the assembly, maintenance, and disassembly of filamentous actin (F-actin) networks at specific locations and times within the cell. The particular function of each network is governed by F-actin organization, size, and density as well as by its dynamics. The distinct characteristics of different F-actin networks are determined through the coordinated actions of specific sets of actin-binding proteins (ABPs). Furthermore, a cell typically assembles and uses multiple F-actin networks simultaneously within a common cytoplasm, so these networks must self-organize from a common pool of shared globular actin (G-actin) monomers and overlapping sets of ABPs. Recent advances in multicolor imaging and analysis of ABPs and their associated F-actin networks in cells, as well as the development of sophisticated in vitro reconstitutions of networks with ensembles of ABPs, have allowed the field to start uncovering the underlying principles by which cells self-organize diverse F-actin networks to execute basic cellular functions.

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Actin CytoskeletonActinsAnimalsHumansMicrofilament ProteinsModels, BiologicalSchizosaccharomycesActinsMicrofilament ProteinsactinArp2/3 complexforminprofilinself-organization

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PMID33021819
PMCPMC8675537

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