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“One Ring To Rule Them All”: Molecular Biologists Have Cracked the Formin Code


Max Plank researchers from Dortmund have revealed the molecular mechanisms by which ring-shaped formin proteins facilitate the growth of actin filaments in cells. Actin is a highly abundant protein that controls the shape and movement of all our cells. Actin achieves this by assembling into filamen

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