Open AccessActin in nonmuscle cells
Author(s) -
Laura Bonetta
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the journal of cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.414
H-Index - 380
eISSN - 1540-8140
pISSN - 0021-9525
DOI - 10.1083/jcb1696fta2
Subject(s) - biology , actin , microbiology and biotechnology
In the late 1960s, Howard Holtzer's group at the University of Pennsylvania made the unexpected observation that virtually all eukaryotic cells assemble a variety of actin-based structures (Ishikawa et al., 1969). At that time, scientists thought that actin and myosin were restricted to muscle cells
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