Compare and contrast actin filaments and microtubules.
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Compare and contrast actin filaments and microtubules.
Many reviews have been written on the biochemistry and cell biology of actin filaments and microtubules individually (see Korn, 1982; Kirschner and Mitchison, 1986; Pollard, 1986a; Pollard and Cooper, 1986; Gelfand and Bershadsky, 1991; Caplow, 1992). Most labs work on one polymer or the other, which has led to something of a gulf between the actin and microtubule research fields. As a broad (a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology of the Cell
سال: 1992
ISSN: 1059-1524,1939-4586
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.3.12.1309