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Cell Motility
Cell Motility
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Biology
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09/11/2012

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Term
Promotes focal adhesion, stress fiber formation and cell contractility
Definition
Rho-GTP
Term
Promotes lamellipodia formation by enhancing actin polymerization
Definition
Rac-GTP
Term
Promotes filapodia formation by enhancing actin polymerization and cell polarity by stabilizing the association of microtubules at leading edge
Definition
Term
Motor protein that promotes cell motility in conjunction with actin
Definition
Myosin II
Term
Protein that nucleates actin at leading edge and contributes to actin branching
Definition
Arp2/3
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Cofillin
Definition

- Promotes filament severing to generate free barbed ends

- promotes actin depolymerization behind leading edge

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CapZ
Definition
binds to (+) ends of actin filaments
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Ciliary Dynein
Definition

- motor protein of cilia

- forms bridges between neighboring microtubule doublets

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