Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 110, No. 18 (April 30, 2013), pp. 7211-7216 (6 pages) We have used transient kinetics, nanosecond time-resolved ...

Myosin in muscles behaves in a unique way, which might explain why muscles have such strong contractile power. A cartoon showing the asymmetry in the weak binding between myosin and actin that biases ...

Here, we produced cytoplasmic protrusions with optical tweezers in mature BY-2 suspension cultured cells to study the parameters involved in the movement of actin filaments during changes in ...

Cell generated force plays essential roles in a wide range of biological processes, such as cell motility, cytokinesis, and tissue morphogenesis. In a study published in Nature Communications, a ...

Over the last several years the identification and functional characterization of the motor proteins actin and myosin in the nucleus has initiated a change in the view of nuclear processes. It is now ...