By J.E. Hesketh, I.F. Pryme
This quantity of the treatise bargains with structural elements of the cytoskeleton: the features of the filaments and their parts; the association of the genes; motor proteins; interactions with membranes.
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Chen et al.. 1993. , 1993b) Microfilament Organization and Actin-Binding Proteins 23 filament length. The contraction of striated muscle, although far from fully understood, is thought to be controlled by calcium influx acting on a complex of troponins in cooperation with tropomyosin (for full details see the article by Thomell in Volume III of this series). In nonmuscle cells tropomyosins may have other functions in addition to modulating actin-myosin interactions. , 1989), perhaps by direct binding competition or conceivably by a direct interaction between gelsolin and tropomyosin (Koepf & Burtnick, 1992).
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1988; Fechheimer, 1987), scruin in the acrosomal process and fimbrin and villin in the microvillus. V. , 1990). It has been pointed out that, whereas rod-like molecules would tend to align in parallel, thus stabilizing actin bundles, filamin is "V" shaped and apparently flexible. , 1992). , 1982). The filamin dimer binds actin by an N-terminal domain homologous to other ABPs, but the ability of this protein to cross-link filaments perpendicularly may arise from weak actin filament interactions along the rod domain that are likely to stabilize both the rod domain and the microfilaments (Figure 4).