Not exact matches
Research suggests that very scarce chemical cues can trigger physical changes in the cell,
including remodeling the plasma membrane and recruiting
cytoskeletal machinery, to transform the dichty from a fat, happy cell to an elongated cell with a distinct front and rear end, ready to migrate.
Hydras are much simpler than most of their cousins in the animal kingdom, but the basic pattern of aligned
cytoskeletal fibers is common in many organs,
including human muscles, heart, and guts.
Many of the downregulated genes are smooth muscle
cytoskeletal elements,
including TCAP (titin - cap), TPN1 (tropomyosin), DMD (dystrophin), SMTN (smoothelin), TAGLN (transgelin), MYH11 (smooth muscle myosin heavy chain 11), and CNN1 (smooth muscle calponin 1).