Sentences with phrase «ends of actin»

She wrote her dissertation on pollen sterility in petunias, but she also studied cell structure, which led her back to animals and a postdoc at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, where she studied a protein on the ends of actin filaments.

He doesn't know where he's going, but his built - in bias to walk forward eventually gets the vesicle to its destination at the end of the actin filament.

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Muscles contract because the muscle protein myosin uses its flexible head to ratchet its long tail along the filament of another muscle protein actin, dragging the ends of muscle cells inward.

The head of α - actinin binds actin whilst two small L - shaped parts sit at the end of the rod and interact with the neck of the other molecule.